RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS.

The article presents various researches done in the field of sociology that appeared in the 1968 issue of the "International Journal of Comparative Sociology." In 1962, while conducting a field study of rural community councils in Saskatchewan as part of a larger study for the Centre for Community Studies, the writer attempted to test some notions suggested by Kimball and Pearsall in their study of the Talladega, Alabama, Community Council. Sociologists Solon T. Kimball and Marion Pearsall have formulated eight principles of organization, which they feel apply particularly to the community council type of voluntary association. Three of these principles are referred to here: Legitimation, Conformance, and Validation. The Pueblo of Taos is located in the northeastern portion of New Mexico on a plateau near the upper Rio Grande. It is near the Sangre de Cristo mountain range, which appears to have separated somewhat, the peoples of the Southwest Culture Area from those of the Plains. In this geographical position the Taos are the most northern of those groups of Indians residing in Arizona and New Mexico, which have been referred to ethnographically as the Pueblo Indians. The purpose of this brief paper is to comment on an aspect of the legal mechanisms and activities of the Taos.