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Marietta Wetherill: Life With the Navajo in Chaco Canyon Paperback – April 26, 2021

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"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.


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: Life with the Navajo in Chaco Canyon is based. In Marietta's own words, the book vividly portrays the beauty and tragedy of life with the Navajo in the turn-of-the-century Southwest.

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    254 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Bower House
  4. Publication date
    April 26, 2021
  5. Dimensions
    6.02 x 0.64 x 9.12 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1555664814
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1555664817
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A native of New Mexico, Kathryn Gabriel Loving has published seven books. These include (under Kathryn Gabriel): Roads to Center Place: A Cultural Atlas to Chaco Canyon and the Anasazi and Gambler Way: Indian Gaming in Mythology, History, and Archaeology in North America, among others.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bower House; 3rd edition (April 26, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 254 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1555664814
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1555664817
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.02 x 0.64 x 9.12 inches
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    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

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The only thing wrong with this book is that it isn't long enough. I could have read many more of the interviews with Ms. Wetherill. A good point is at the end of each chapter, there are notes correcting or confirming or expounding upon the memories.
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