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1	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:
2	Title: Maasaw niqw Orayvit Naatsawinaya (How Maasaw and the People of Oraibi Got Scared to Death Once) Source(s): Hopitutuwutsi Hopi Tales: A Bilingual Collection of Hopi Indian Stories Author(s): Herschel Talashoma (Author); Ekkehart Malotki (Author) Aliksa’i. People were living in Oraibi. Not far from the village, at Mastupatsa, was Maasaw’s home, where he lived with his grandmother. Every night when the villagers went to bed, he inspected the area around Oraibi. In this way he guarded the O... Show Keywords:
3	Title: The Rescue of Two Mexican Boys Source(s): Life Among the Apaches Author(s): John C. Cremony (Author) An American traveling with the band of Apache chief Mangas Colorado helps to free two young Mexican captives. It has already been stated that my tent was pitched several hundred yards from the rest of the Commission, and hidden from the view of my companions by an intervening hillock. This fact rendered me far more cautious than I otherwise would have been. ... Show Keywords:
4	Title: Palöngawhoya Soy Niina (How Palöngawhoya Killed His Grandmother) Source(s): Hopitutuwutsi Hopi Tales: A Bilingual Collection of Hopi Indian Stories Author(s): Herschel Talashoma (Author); Ekkehart Malotki (Author) Aliksai. They were living at Pöqangwwawarpi. The Pöqangwhoya twins had their house there. The brothers were little boys. Pöqangwhoya was the olders name; the younger was called Palöngawhoya. They had only their grandmother to live with, and a... Show Keywords:
5	Title: Border Town: 1938 Source(s): Borders Author(s): Pat Mora (Author) A poem about a childs experience of racial segregation. She counts cement cracks little Esperanza with the long brown braids, counts so as not to hear the girls in the playground singing, “the farmer's in the dell the farmer's in the dell” laughing and running round-round while little Esp... Show Keywords:
6	Title: Woodstove of My Childhood Source(s): In the Gathering Silence Author(s): Levi Romero (Author) A poet describes the woodstove that heated his childhood home in northern New Mexico. woodstove of my childhood where potatoes cut like triangle chips were fried in manteca de marrano woodstove of lazy autumn smoke swirling away to nowhere woodstove of December evacuating the cold chill at sunrise woodstove of celebrati... Show Keywords:
7	Title: La Hormiguita (The Little Ant) Source(s): The Day It Snowed Tortillas: Tales from Spanish New Mexico Author(s): Traditional (Author); Joe Hayes (Author) Storyteller Joe Hayes rewrites a traditional Hispanic folk tale. All through the long, cold winter La Hormiguita, the little ant, had to stay inside her underground home because the ground was all covered with snow. But now the snow was melted, so she went to the door with her mother to see if spring had come.... Show Keywords:
8	Title: Silver City Days and Billy’s Mother Source(s): They “Knew” Billy the Kid: Interviews with Old-Time New Mexicans Author(s): Louis Abraham (Author); Robert F. Kadlec (Editor); Mrs. Frances Totty (WPA Field Writer) A childhood friend of Billy the Kid describes his mother, Mrs. Bill Antrim. Mrs. Bill Antrim was a jolly Irish lady, full of life, and her fun and mischief. Mrs. Antrim could dance the Highland Fling as well as the best of the dancers. There were very few American boys in Silver City when the Antrims lived here, therefor... Show Keywords:
9	Title: Silver City Author(s): Southwest Crossroads Spotlight A brief history of Silver City. In the middle 1800s, Silver City was a marsh known by its Spanish name, La Ciénaga de San Vicente (St. Vincent’s Marsh). Gila and Mimbres Apaches who had long lived in the valley resisted fiercely the arrival of growing numbers of white settle... Show Keywords:
10	Title: Desert Wife Author(s): Hilda Faunce (Author) An Anglo woman writes about her life on a trading post on the Navajo reservation before WW I. I was glad enough for an excuse to go into a hogan and especially the Old Lady’s. I started right after breakfast. Ken said any hour at all was visiting hour for Indians, so it could be for me too. I had studied the outside of the Navajo homes from... Show Keywords:

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