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source of outside contact was through the Catholic Church. The encroachment upon this private world has been steady -
- - roads, communication, etc. literally wip out the opportunity
of a self-sufficient Mayan farmer. Throughout Yucatan, the Mayan youth has entered the stream of Mexican life and (it appears) with good success. While the Mayan village today continues to look over its shoulder at another day, the hammock disappears and the Singer sewing machine is a family essential. Mexico must now give some form of constructive attention to these emerging people. The teaching of Spanish, roads and good water are basic and could be provided. The one thing that
is not needed, however, is an armed protest, engendered by outsiders.
Weavers of beautiful textiles, and the originators of the famed black pottery, these Indians have opened their arms to the tourist trade with its fat wallet.
Tourists have, after a fashion, influenced the Tarahumaras of Chihuahua State. Inhabitant of ^he Mgh Sierras, t-he^e a^e tue runners of Mexico. Thirty years Oi so back, they were frequent visitors to the City of Chihuahua - men with bare behinds and legs a chorus girl would envy -moving rapidly with the so-called "Coyote Shuffle" from their villages about 70 miles distant. Apparently they lived in solitude with
The Zapotecs of the State of Oaxaca live in comparative comfort.