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"Old Pounder," they called him-- the very first Navajo silversmith. Yet Herrero Delgadito's greatest legacy is measured in lives, not ounces: the scores of Navajo women and children he plucked out of slavery in 1864, the hundreds of exiles he risked everything to feed in 1865 and the thousands of people he helped lead back home in 1868. A remarkable portrait of human resilience, Delgadito's story upends conventional narratives of the West, revealing...
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Tells of the forced removal of Hopi children to off-reservation boarding schools such as Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, and the Phoenix and Stewart Indian Schools. Topics covered include Hopi understanding of education, early government efforts to assimilate and acculturate Hopis, the Orabi split, Hopi language loss at American schools and the future of the Hopis. A number of historical photograhs of Hopi villages, Indian boarding schools,...
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