Marietta Wetherill: Life with the Navajo in Chaco Canyon

by Kathryn Gabriel Loving and Marietta Wetherill

Book Overview

"Your head is round, not flat like ours," a Navajo told Marietta Palmer Wetherill. "You will remember and tell our story to the white man." In the years after she moved to Chaco Canyon in 1897 with her husband, Richard, Marietta Wetherill got to know the Navajo probably as intimately as a white person could. When her husband was murdered by a Navajo in 1910 in the midst of an interracial conflict, Marietta was spared because the Navajo considered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555664814
• ISBN13: 9781555664817
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Bower House
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"