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Newlyweds Sallie Wagner and Bill Lippincott came to the Navajo Reservation in 1938. Before they knew it, they owned a trading post at Wide Ruins, Arizona. The years they spent there were the best of their lives, and this lively, honest memoir recalls them in detail. Trading post life combined business with the kinds of experiences generally associated with anthropological field work. Like many traders, Sallie Wagner influenced the weavers whose rugs she purchased. She was one of the traders who persuaded weavers to use vegetal dyes, leaving a permanent legacy in Navajo weaving. Tourists discovered Indian reservations in the 1930s, and the Lippincotts were visited often by friends and strangers alike, many unable to navigate reservation roads. This story is a must read for those interested in the Navajo people in the early days. Sallie Wagner has managed to catch and retain the essence of what it meant to be white in a Navajo world that was unbelievably different.--Edward T. Hall
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Navajo Indians--Social life and customs, Navajo Indian Reservation, Wagner, Sallie R, Indian traders--Navajo Indian Reservation--Biography.
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1997
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E99.N3W24 1997eb
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979.1/35004972
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Navajo Indians--Social life and customs, Navajo Indian Reservation, Wagner, Sallie R, Indian traders--Navajo Indian Reservation--Biography.
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Wide Ruins
Memories from a Navajo Trading Post
Sallie Wagner
FOREWORD BY Edward T. Hall
Published in cooperation with The Albuquerque Museum
University of New Mexico Press ALBUQUERQUE
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1997 by Sallie Wagner. All rights reserved. Second paperbound printing, 1998
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wagner, Sallie R. Wide ruins / Sallie Wagner; foreword by Edward T. Hall1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-8263-1805-3 (pbk.) 1. Navajo IndiansSocial life and customs. 2. Navajo Indian Reservation. 3. Wagner, Sallie R. 4. Indian tradersNavajo Indian ReservationBiography. I. Title. E99.N3W241997 9.1'35004972dc2196-45821 CIP
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Contents
Foreword
ix
1 A Business Unto Itself
1
2 Under the Cottonwoods
19
3 Bad Roads and Worse
31
4 Rugs for Trade or Cash
49
5 Visitors Expected and Unexpected
65
6 Between Gallup and Chambers
79
7 A Day at the Trading Post
87
8 Christmas at Wide Ruins
95
9 Joe and Jimmy Toddy
101
10 Witchcraft
113
11 After the War
121
Epilogue
143
Index
147
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To the Navajos of Wide Ruins.
To Mildy Hall whose encouraging interest and help ful suggestions persuaded me to write down the tales I had been telling. I am saddened that she is not here to read this book. To M. H. and Arnie Rivin for their encouraging interest. To Bill LeBlond for his help in some of the busi ness details. To Nanci Mon who cheerfully suffered through my terrible typing to interpret it on her computer. My heartfelt thanks to all.
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Foreword
Edward T. Hall
It was the period when visiting Navajo and Hopi reservations became fashionable. Wide Ruins is the record of a young couple, Sallie and Bill Lippincottnewlyweds, well educated and goodwilledwho experienced the pull of the country and the people and wondered how they could possibly find a way to anchor themselves to that magic land. Because they adopted neither the attitudes nor the manners of the old-time traders, the Lippincotts became favorites among white visitors to the Navajo Reservation. Newcomers themselves, as well as literate and outgoing, they were the ideal people to tell the outside world the story of trading with the Navajos.
Although Sallie and Bill didn't know it at the time, the 1930s were a period during which every aspect of Navajo life would be altered. John Collier, the new commissioner of Indian Affairs, had just introduced drastic changes by modeling Navajo government after our
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own. In addition the Soil Conservation Service, in the name of preservation of the land, introduced and enforced reductions in Navajo herds of sheep, goats, horses, and cattle, leaving an indelible mark on that most depressed of all economies. It was this desperate marginal environment that the Lippincotts stepped into when they bought the defunct trading post at Wide Ruinsan Anasazi site on an unimproved road between Chambers, Arizona and the new Navajo Reservation headquarters at Window Rock.
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