bmit.

When the object of the school was explained to them, they consented to
receive secular instructions but objected to any religious teaching.
They asked to have schools opened in the pueblos on the plan of our
public schools where the children could attend during the day and
return home at night, and their home life be not broken up, but their
prayer was denied.

The reservation school was opened for the purpose of instructing the
Moqui children in civilization, but the results obtained have not been
entirely satisfactory. The methods employed for enforcing discipline
have been unnecessarily severe and have given dissatisfaction. As
recently as the year 1903 the children of this inoffensive and harmless
people were forcibly taken from their homes and put into the schools.
The time selected for doing the dastardly deed was during the night in
midwinter when the weather was cold and the ground covered with snow.
Under the orders of the superintendent the reservation police made the
raid without warning or warrant of any kind. While the people slept,
the police entered their houses, dragged the little children from their
comfortable beds and drove them naked out into the snow and cold, where
they were rounded up and herded like cattle.

The indignity and outrage of this and other similar acts have
embittered the Moquis until they have lost what little respect they
ever had for Christianity and civilization. The policy of the
government is to make them do whatever they do not want to do, to break
up the family and scatter its members. The treatment has created two
factions among the Moquis known as the "hostiles" who are only hostile
in opposing oppression and any change in their religious faith and
customs; and the "friendlies" who are willing to obey the boss placed
over them and comply with his demands.

Religion is the dearest treasure of mankind, and when assailed always
finds ready defenders. Possessed by this innate feeling of right and
rankling with the injustice of the past, is it surprising that they
should spurn any proffered help? They remember what they have suffered
in the past and do not care to repeat the experiment. To this day the
Moquis hold the mission epoch in contempt and nothing could induce them
to accept voluntarily any proposition that savored ought of the old
regime. Every vestige of that period has been obliterated from the
pueblos that nothing tangible should remain to remind t