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Reservations tells the story of US Indian Service teachers Will and Mary Parker, both of whom are banished with their son Davey to Red Mesa -- an isolated day school on the big Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona and New Mexico -- for their opposition to the pro-boarding school policies of the Hoover Administration in far-off Washington. In their exile, Will and Mary encounter Hosteen Tse, a great Navajo leader and fount of tribal lore who pleads for aid for his starving people. Will and Mary do what they can to help, which is little in a time when banks are failing and old friends are turning to thievery.
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Navajo Indians--Education--Fiction, Indians of North America--Arizona--Education--Fiction, Indians of North America--New Mexico--Education--Fiction, Indians of North America--Government relations--Fiction, Depressions--West (U.S.)--Fiction.
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1999
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PS3563.E898R4 1999eb
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813/.54
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Navajo Indians--Education--Fiction, Indians of North America--Arizona--Education--Fiction, Indians of North America--New Mexico--Education--Fiction, Indians of North America--Government relations--Fiction, Depressions--West (U.S.)--Fiction.
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Reservations
Harold Burton Meyers
University Press of Colorado
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Copyright 1999 by the University Press of Colorado International Standard Book Number 0-87081-524-5
Published by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Meyers, Harold Burton, 1924 Reservations: a novel / Harold Burton Meyers. p. cm. ISBN 0-87081-524-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Navajo IndiansEducationFiction. 2. Indians of North AmericaArizonaEducationFiction. 3. Indians of North AmericaNew MexicoEducationFiction. 4. Indians of North AmericaGovernment relationsFiction. 5. DepressionsWest (U.S.)Fiction. I. Title. PS3563.E898R4 199999-11760 813'.54dc21CIP
This is a work of fiction. The characters might have existed and the incidents might have occurred in the times and at the places described, but did not. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Chapter Two is adapted from the author's short story, "The Zuni Bow," which appeared in Prairie Schooner, Autumn 1944.
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For J.A.M. and my parents, Sallie Frances Key (18901938) and George Lentton Meyers (18871961)
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Part One Zui/Red Mesa 1928-1935 Davey
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Chapter One
At Zui in the spring of the year I turned five, Mrs. Wewha took Andrew and me across the flooding river to the place she called Hepatina, the Middle Place, the center of the world. Our feet drummed on loose planks as we crossed the bridge. We looked through the cracks and saw muddy water swirling and rushing. An old man passed us, riding bareback on a donkey. His legs dangled almost to the ground. He was dressed all in white and had thick white hair, bobbed at ear level like my mother's. A red bandanna, rolled and tied around his head, held his hair in place. I called him Donkey Man and made Andrew laugh. Mrs. Wewha said he was not someone to laugh at. The man was a rain priest and her uncle, Andrew's grandmother's brother.
Mrs. Wewha did not have any children of her own or any husband that I knew of. She took care of Andrew and me while my mother and father taught at the government school and Andrew's mother was busy in the school's kitchen
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preparing noon dinner for the Zui children. Andrew was my best friend.
On the other side of the river, we passed the eagle pens. Mrs. Wewha said that when a Zui man needed an eagle feather for a prayer stick or dance costume, he pulled it from a caged bird. The eagles were big, but the pens were small, built of old boards, tree limbs, and rusty chicken wire. They smelled bad. I held my nose and made throwing-up noises as we drew near. Andrew started to laugh and I laughed with him, but again Mrs. Wewha made us stop. She said the eagles were messengers of the gods and deserved respect.
They shrieked, flapped their wings, and poked their heads through the holes of the chicken wire, trying to get at us. They had staring eyes and vicious sharp beaks that snapped open and shut. Mrs. Wewha said she had seen an eagle strip the meat from a man's arm with one swipe of its beak. We stayed far from them and gripped her hands tightly as we passed on the dusty road.
We came to a field fenced with barbed wire that sagged between rotting posts. Only weeds grew in the field, but a mound of stones and logs marked the center of it.
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