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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Marietta Wetherill

Marietta Wetherill

Loving, Kathryn Gabriel
Jameson, Elizabeth
Wetherill, Marietta

Paperback

Biographies GeneralNative American HistoryRegional: Southwest

ISBN10: 1555664814
ISBN13: 9781555664817
Publisher: Johnson Books
Published: Apr 26 2021
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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 Navajo 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 Navajo 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 Navajo's illnesses, and served as a midwife. She observed the harsh code of Navajo ethics and even witnessed the execution of a bewitched singer.

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