People on the Earth

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The problem of an educated full-blooded Navajo and his failure to fit into either the white world or the Indian reservation. A white missionary had sent him to school and tried to instill high ideals, but on his return to his own people he finds himself treated as an outcast by both sides. He sinks to the depths and only in his contacts with an Indian girl facing the same problems, is he able to realize the challenge to make the best of both civilizations serve him.