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- catalog abstract ""Your head is round, not flat like ours," a Navajo told Marietta Palmer Wetherill. "You will remember and tell our story to the white man." In the years after she moved to Chaco Canyon in 1897 with her husband, Richard, Marietta Wetherill got to know the Navajos probably as intimately as a white person could. When her husband was murdered by a Navajo in 1910 in the midst of an interracial conflict, Marietta was spared because the Navajos considered her one of them rather. than white. While Richard, who had previously discovered the Cliff Palace Ruins at Mesa Verde, was excavating at Chaco Canyon, Marietta ran their trading post and learned the Navajo ways. She became close friends with a singer, Hosteen Bi'al, who adopted her into the Chee clan. At his side, she learned the secrets of sand painting and curing dances, doctored the Navajos' illnesses, and served as a midwife. She observed the harsh code of Navajo ethics and even witnessed. the execution of a bewitched singer. In 1953, a year before her death, Marietta Wetherill told the story of her life to a newspaper reporter who recorded it on seventy-five reels of tape, bequeathing a priceless historical treasure to the future. It is on the transcripts of these tapes that Marietta Wetherill: Reflections on Life with the Navajos in Chaco Canyon is based. In Marietta's own words, the book vividly portrays the beauty and tragedy of life with the Navajos. in the turn-of-the-century Southwest.".
- catalog contributor b3766978.
- catalog contributor b3766979.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description ""Your head is round, not flat like ours," a Navajo told Marietta Palmer Wetherill. "You will remember and tell our story to the white man." In the years after she moved to Chaco Canyon in 1897 with her husband, Richard, Marietta Wetherill got to know the Navajos probably as intimately as a white person could. When her husband was murdered by a Navajo in 1910 in the midst of an interracial conflict, Marietta was spared because the Navajos considered her one of them rather.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-241).".
- catalog description "in the turn-of-the-century Southwest.".
- catalog description "than white. While Richard, who had previously discovered the Cliff Palace Ruins at Mesa Verde, was excavating at Chaco Canyon, Marietta ran their trading post and learned the Navajo ways. She became close friends with a singer, Hosteen Bi'al, who adopted her into the Chee clan. At his side, she learned the secrets of sand painting and curing dances, doctored the Navajos' illnesses, and served as a midwife. She observed the harsh code of Navajo ethics and even witnessed.".
- catalog description "the execution of a bewitched singer. In 1953, a year before her death, Marietta Wetherill told the story of her life to a newspaper reporter who recorded it on seventy-five reels of tape, bequeathing a priceless historical treasure to the future. It is on the transcripts of these tapes that Marietta Wetherill: Reflections on Life with the Navajos in Chaco Canyon is based. In Marietta's own words, the book vividly portrays the beauty and tragedy of life with the Navajos.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 241 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Marietta Wetherill.".
- catalog identifier "1555660908 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Marietta Wetherill.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boulder, CO : Johnson Books,".
- catalog relation "Marietta Wetherill.".
- catalog spatial "New Mexico Chaco Canyon".
- catalog subject "978.9/82 20".
- catalog subject "E76.45.W47 A3 1992".
- catalog subject "Folklorists New Mexico Chaco Canyon Biography.".
- catalog subject "Indianists New Mexico Chaco Canyon Biography.".
- catalog subject "Navajo Indians Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "Wetherill, Marietta, 1876-1954.".
- catalog title "Marietta Wetherill : reflections on life with the Navajos in Chaco Canyon / edited and compiled by Kathryn Gabriel ; introductory essay by Elizabeth Jameson.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".