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Rh whose wrongs and wrongdoings much discussion has occurred in both Mexico and the United States. Part of the tribe were peaceful, but others were chronic troublemakers, who, as President Diaz once reminded the American Ambassador, were comparable to the Apaches with whom the United States had had so much difficulty. They were especially active against Americans. These, the most prominent foreigners engaged in exploitation of the country, they looked upon as disturbers of what they considered the immemorial privileges of the tribe. The Mexican government, at least the central government, did its best to punish the guilty, but it could not always rely upon the soldiers it sent to punish the Indian bands. It adopted the policy of taking arms and ammunition away from the Indians, thinking that would bring an end to the trouble. After 1903 the government deported to Yucatan and Quintana Roo many Indians who had taken part in marauding. Others were sent to colonization enterprises in Sinaloa and still others set to work in convict gangs in Sonora. To those who were disposed to settle down to a peaceful life the government supplied farming implements, farm animals, and poultry in Sinaloa. The Indians, however, continued to cross into Arizona towns "to work," where they replenished their ammunition supplies and then returned to Mexico to start trouble again. The local