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1	Title: A Zuni Life: A Pueblo Indian in Two Worlds Author(s): Virgil Wyaco (Author) A Zuni Indian writes about leaving the pueblo to attend the BIA boarding school in Albuquerque in 1936. In 1936, when I was in the sixth grade, I heard about the Indian School in Albuquerque, one of the BIA boarding schools, and I thought about having a different lifestyle and learning new things in a big city. My principal, Mrs. Gonzales, sent in an a... Show Keywords:
2	Title: Early Life Source(s): Geronimo: His Own Story Author(s): Geronimo (Author); S. M. Barrett (Oral Historian) Famed Chiricahua Apache war chief Geronimo speaks of his childhood and how a boy becomes a warrior. As Told to S. M. Barrett. I was born in No-doyohn Cañon, Arizona, June, 1829. In that country which lies around the headwaters of the Gila River I was reared. This range was our fatherland; among these mountains our wigwams were hidden; the scattered valleys contained our fi... Show Keywords:
3	Title: The Vengeance of Gouyen Source(s): Indeh: An Apache Odyssey Author(s): Eve Ball (Author); Nora Henn (Author); Lynda A. Sanchez The widow Gouyen seeks revenge against a Comanche chief for killing her husband. The Apache girl lay in the brush arbor of her mother-in-law waiting for the older woman to sleep. Her name is one the Apaches are forbidden to mention and she is known today only as Gouyen, Wise Woman, a term reserved only for the intelligent and cha... Show Keywords:
4	Title: Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers Author(s): Kenji Kawano (Author); Thomas H. Begay (Author); Samuel Tom Holiday (Author) A Navajo Code Talker remembers fighting with the Marines in the South Pacific during World War II. Thomas H. Begay, Tsi’ najinii and Ashiihi Clans, was a member of the 5th Marine Division and saw combat on Hawai`i, Enewetak Atoll, Guam, Tinian, Saipan, and Iwo Jima. We were disciplined....I learned to survive combat. The first hour, I was wit... Show Keywords:
5	Title: The Revolt Begins Source(s): K'atsina: A Novel of Rebellion Author(s): Lana M. Harrigan (Author) In this novel, a Spanish-Acoma man and his family face the Pueblo Revolt. By the next moon, Diego returned. The small, wiry Apache seemed made only of hardened sinew. In his black, piercing eyes burned a fire so intense it might have had its origin in Hell. No emotion showed on Hishti’s face as the husband she had not se... Show Keywords:
6	Title: The Odyssey Ends Source(s): Indeh: An Apache Odyssey Author(s): Eugene Chihuahua (Author); Eve Ball (Author) Apache Eugene Chihuahua remembers what life was like when the US imprisoned his people at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The Comanches, Kiowas, and Kiowa-Apaches hauled us and our handful of possessions to Cache Creek. What blankets and other things we’d put in the baggage cars were destroyed. So we set to work to make brush shelters the old way. Where saplings grew ... Show Keywords:
7	Title: Oraibi Before the Split Source(s): Hopi Voices: Recollections, Traditions, and Narratives of the Hopi Indians Author(s): Homer Cooyama, Kikeuchmovi, July 1970 (Author); Harold Courlander (Editor) A Hopi elder tells how the conflict between the Hostiles and the Friendlies within Oraibi society destroyed their ancient religion. Before the split, Old Oraibi was a very complicated society. We were involved with different organizations, with fraternities, with groups (comparable to) the Masons, many things we don’t know too much about today. There were fourteen kivas in Old ... Show Keywords:
8	Title: The Split at Oraibi: An Oraibi Account Source(s): Hopi Voices: Recollections, Traditions, and Narratives of the Hopi Indians Author(s): Chuka (Don C. Talayesva), Oraibi, July 1970 (Author); Harold Courlander (Editor) A Hopi elder talks about how factions developed between the Hostiles and the Friendlies at Oraibi in 1906. I can tell you exactly how it happened because I was involved in that business. I was about sixteen years old then. There was this group in Oraibi that was hostile to the whites. That was the problem. We all used to live peaceably together when I was... Show Keywords:
9	Title: The Legend of Swift Wind Source(s): Apache Legends: Songs of the Wind Dancer Author(s): Lou Cuevas (Author); Lou Cuevas (Author) The tale of a boy who, transformed into a roadrunner, saves his people from wolves. Many ages ago, when the land belonged to the ancient Ndee, later known as the Apache, the Swift Wind story came into being. Since then, some have forgotten the tale, some do not understand it. Even today, among many clans, there are few who know of i... Show Keywords:
10	Title: A Voice Source(s): My Own True Name: New and Selected Poems for Young Adults Author(s): Pat Mora (Author) A poem describing the narrators mothers struggle to learn English. Even the lights on the stage unrelenting as the desert sun couldn’t hide the other students, their eyes also unrelenting, students who spoke English every night as they ate their meat, potatoes, gravy. Not you. In your house that smelled lik... Show Keywords:

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