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MESA FOLK OF HOPILAND              237

                              reached the pueblo under ''Corn Mountain."   In
                              dian philanthropy rarely extends outside the circle
                              of relatives, and the Zuui had no mind to give corn to
                              the poor Hopi woman beyond enough to keep her from
                              starving.  But little Wupa was worth a bushel of the
                              precious ears, and for that amount he was exchanged,
                              becoming, without being consulted, a Zufii, while his
                              mother trudged back to Hopiland with food for her
                              starving kinsfolk, feeling, no doubt, little sorrow at the
                              loss of her babe, so great is the levelling power of
                              famine and misfortune.  There are usually strays at
                              all Indian villages, and thus the presence of the little
                              Hopi stranger passed without notice. When the crops
                              were assured in the fields of the famine-stricken Hopi,
                              they ceased coming to Zuni, and Wupa seems to have
                              been unclaimed and forgotten.
                                When he was five or six, the Zuni in turn sold him
                              to some Mexicans, and the next account there is of
                              him he was living at Albuquerque, a stout young
                              peon, with cropped hair, a devout Catholic, speaking
                              Castilian after the fashion of the ' ' Greasers. ' ' Wupa
                              thus became, to all intents and purposes, a Mexican,
                              and perhaps had lost sight of his origin.  Neither is
                              the transition from Indian to Mexican at all difficult
                              or incongruous.  Few Americans realize the new
                              problem of the population that came to us through the
                              treaty of Guadahipe-Hidalgo. the clannish, unprc-
                              gressive foreigners who were made American citizens
                              without being consulted.  It must be said, however,
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