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My mother-in-law has a bunch of old photographs that I need to get start nagging about getting them scanned. Some are group photographs of families in traditional clothing and others are group photographs of boarding school children. Although the girls in the boarding school picture looked clean and well taken care of, I audibly choked/sobbed when I saw the picture. Every single girl had her hair shorn to just around the chin. Traditionally, their hair is grown long and bound in yarn into a kind of bone shape. Cutting their hair off was like cutting them off from their culture.
I also was immediately attracted to there being spirits in all things (it's the same in Navajo belief). That is something that I have always believed in since I was a little girl and it made the transition actually alot easier than it would've if I had believed that only humans have spirits. The Navajo creation myth is rather similiar to the Hopi version. One of the differences is that each of the worlds has its own color--black, yellow, blue, and white (in that order). The third world flooded and the Navajo entered this world, which they call the "glittering world". I sometimes wonder if the color of this world (white) and the fact that it is glittering meant that the Navajo arrived here during the winter. When the snow covers the ground out here, it glitters like diamonds. It makes sense that this wintery scene could be the white glittering world.
Stephanie
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Marduk |
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Stephanie |
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Roxana |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Stephanie |
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Marduk |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Stephanie |
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Marduk |
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Marduk |
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Roxana Cooper |
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Stephanie |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Marduk |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Marduk |
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kenuchelover |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Marduk |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Marduk |
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kenuchelover |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Stephanie |
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Marduk |
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kenuchelover |
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Marduk |
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Stephanie |
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kenuchelover |
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Marduk |
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Stephanie |
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kenuchelover |
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Marduk |
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Stephanie |
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kenuchelover |
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Stephanie |
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Stephanie |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Stephanie |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Stephanie |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Marduk |
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Stephanie |
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kenuchelover |
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Roxana Cooper |
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kenuchelover |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Roxana |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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Charlotte Masuda |
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