By Polingaysi Qoyawayma
ISBN-10: 0585187800
ISBN-13: 9780585187808
ISBN-10: 0826304397
ISBN-13: 9780826304391
This is often the tale of the Hopi girl who selected in her early adolescence to dwell within the white man???s global. She grew to become often called Elizabeth Q. White. Born at previous Oraibi, Arizona, she used to be of the 1st Hopi youngsters to be knowledgeable in white colleges. Later she used to be the 1st Hopi to turn into a instructor in these faculties. the following her biographer documents Qoyowayma???s holiday with the traditions of her humans and her fight to realize attractiveness for her radical instructing methods.Throughout her existence this impressive girl has held to the easiest in Hopi tradition and has fought to keep up it within the lives of her scholars. Her tale, wealthy in details on Hopi legend and rite, is a relocating advent to the Hopi lifestyle.
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As she hesitated at the door, he came over, took her by the arm, and walked her rapidly to a desk where two other little girls were sitting. He shoved her in beside them and pushed a pencil and a piece of paper in front of her. He was a thin, sour-faced young man with cold, unsympathetic eyes. She could not understand what he said to her before he turned away. " The marks the teacher made on the blackboard spelled "cat," but Polingaysi did not know it. She copied them as best she could, filling her paper on both sides.
It has not been many moons, compared with the length of my life, since these people came, but already I see their influence. The maidens are trying to make their hair look like the hair of the white women, though no hairdress could be more beautiful than the ancient whorls of the poliene. The women are laying their blanket dresses aside for the thin cloth dresses the trader sells. " Placing her thin hand on Polingaysi's head she looked into the girl's sympathetic eyes. "I tell you, Polingaysi, you will live to see a time when the dotsi, our soft buckskin moccasin, is no longer worn.
She had been accepted by her grandparents, named Polingaysi, Butterfly Sitting Among the Flowers in the Breeze, and presented to Father Sun on the twentieth day of her life, then honored by the community. She was a member of her mother's Coyote Clan, and a child of her father's Kachina Clan. She belonged. She was a Hopi. Like other children of the old village, Polingaysi spent her little girlhood playing. She dug holes in the moist sand, built tiny rock houses, hunted for broken bits of pottery to use for play dishes.