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That was really interesting. I have seen lots of old photos of Indian police with their arms, but they were usually Trapdoor carbines. I'd love to know where that USDI carbine was issued and what kinds of calls it was taken out on. That period was an interesting one, with the traditional ways still very much alive even as the new world order was tightening its grip on the Indian peoples.

A good example: Navajo headman Manuelito, who had been an enforcer in the old days, became a leader of the Navajo Police after the 1868 Treaty. He was a strong man in the war against the witches, in the early 1880's when the skinwalkers had almost taken over Navajo community life.

Who knows what that carbine would say if it could talk?

jn