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New World Opens Up for Navajo Schoolgirl
A 14 year old Navajo girl named Bab enters Phoenix Indian School, leaving her sheep-herding life on a remote reservation. She experiences a stark new world of classrooms, telephones, and street life while adapting to white society. Other girls, including Agnes Goodluck, pursue reading and language learning as they adjust to new roles and opportunities in education and work. The Indian Service notes graduates finding diverse careers, from nursing to clerical work, though one girl is described as a shill in a Reno gambling house and another as a cattle rustler on the reservation.
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