Show Booman Woman oman VI oman Boss of Wigwam 0 Says days Authority on Indian Inman Customs I I r White women Insist on their rights and fight for Cor Independence Navajo women arc are such coe cor losses bosses Sn in inthe Intha the wigwam wl they dont don't have to toI I worry worry about ab ul emancipation They head he-ad th their lr duns clans which are established on on tho mothers mother's side and ond holds hold true strings of ot the family purse because the Navajo wealth Is Isla In sheep which are ore handed down from mother to daughter This Is divulged dl by Wick Miller who has then n much mach time and study study to Indian arts aria and customs Navajo women dont don't argue arue about equal rights r he salt eald And they dont don't Insist on deferential gestures gesture they know their word Is final their position Is envIable One of ot the Navajo weavers pM pal Coming A Again Woman subs sub substantiated u this Idea I dont don't argue orue about my rights she said cald I I dont don't even think about them and neither n-Ither does any other Navajo woman oman Dressed In deer deer- Jain moccasins and anda anda anda a gayly colored skirt topped by Q a adark adark dark velveteen blouse Eckh pah fingered her turquoise set bracelets i and talked quietly about the cus cus- customs customs toms of her pro people le j cus-j Our women keep busy sho she explained ex- ex ex explained with making blankets an and rugs We get et tho the wool from Crom our sheep comb and card It and nOlI then spin It on that She pointed to a distort distaff a n remnant o 0 the ancient type ot of spinning wheel She further explained d that that the th wool Is dyed after It Is spun and d then woven Into rugs rags and blankets on OD ft a Bloom loom I v pah pah speaks Fn English ute t fret as a n white woman for tor l went away Awny to school Returning t to her tribe she fhe married a n youn young brave who already had n wife He and baby I didn't want to marry him I 1 didn't love Jove she confessed But Rut my people mo me to marry murr him Now I l no longer live with him J 1 Jam Iam am divorced Divorce among the Navajos con consists slats In separation without benefit of or a court decree Marriage C also niso often takes place without u n ceremony The common procedure la is for Cor the Navajo maiden and rind her ber lover lo cr to begin living under tinder the smie same shelter thereby an an- announcing to the clan they are mar married rued ried Occasionally after the first child Is horn they thet have n a marriage ceremony It It Is not strange e said t 1 Eckh pah for tor a Navajo man mm to have more than one ODe wife tre nt at the mime game time But the woman never neter has hag two TO unless s one Is la dead or unless sho she huts blia n a divorce I |