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Title: The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923 James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Foreign influences Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene
Publisher: Pasadena, Calif. : Radiant Life Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hat will help youwithstand the approaches of disease should you ever,in some other way, come under its malign influence. When I see white boys slouching and shamblingalong the streets I wish with a great wish that I couldhave them put under the training of some of my wildIndian friends. They would soon brace up; headswould be held erect, chins down, abdomen in, chestup, and with lips closed, and the pure air of the moun-tain, canyon, plain, desert, or forest entering theirlungs through the nostrils; the whole aspect of lifewould begin to change. For nothing lifts up thespirits so much as just to lift the chest up. It takes aload off the head, off the mind, off the heart. Raiseyour chest so high that the abdominal organs performtheir functions in a proper way. When one is alldoubled over, the head and spine are deprived of bloodthat they are entitled to. When the chest is lifted up,the abdominal organs are compressed, and the bloodthat has been retired from the circulation and accu- 87
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HAVASUPAI CHILD WITH WATER BOTTLE SUSPENDED FROM THE FOREHEAD. THE INDIAN AS A WALKER mulated in the liver and the stomach is forced backinto the current where it belongs. The head and spinalcord get their proper supply of blood, and one feelsrefreshed and energized immediately. But in addition to their walking and riding theIndians are great climbers of steep canyon and moun-tain trails. Men, women, and children alike pass upand down these trails with almost the ease and agilityof the goat. I have seen a woman with a kathak(carrying basket) suspended from her forehead con-taining a load of fruit, of pine nuts, of grass seeds,weighing not less than from 50 to 100 lbs., her babyperched on top of the load, steadily and easily climb atrail that made me puff and blow like a grampus.Few exercises, properly taken, are of greater benefit tothe lungs and heart, and indeed, all the vital organs,than is trail or mountain climbing. See that yourclothing is easy, especially around the waist, for

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