Show Navajo Woman W Boss doss of Wigwam Says days Authority on Indian on-Indian Indian Customs j White women Insist on their rights and fight for Independence Navajo jo women are arc such complete cor bosses In Inthe Inthe Inthe the wigwam they dont don't have to worry a about out emancipation They head their clans which are established on the mothers mother's side Bide and holds hold the strings of the family purse because the Navajo wealth Is In sh sheep ep which are handed down from mother to daughter This Is divulged by Wick Miller who has given much time and study to Indian arts and customs Navajo wom women n dont don't argue about equal rights he said And they theydon dont don't don t Insist on deferential gestures they know their word Is final their position Is enviable One of or the Navajo weavers Eckh- Eckh pah Coming Again Woman substantiated substantiated sub sub- this Idea Iden I III dont don't argue about my rights she said I 11 dont don't even think about them am and neither does any other Navajo Na woman Dressed In deer moccasins and anda a ft gayly colored skirt sl topped by a n adark adark dark velveteen blouse pah pah fingered her turquoise-set turquoise bracelets and talked quietly about the tho customs customs customs cus cus- toms of ot her people Our women keep busy she explained explained ex ex- with making blankets andrU and rU rugs 8 We get the tho wool from our sheep comb and card It and then spin It on that She pointed to a n distaff a n remnant o 0 o- o othe the ancient type of or spinning wheel She further explained that the wool Is Js dyed after It Is spun and then woven wo Into rugs and blankets on a loom pah speaks English as well as a white woman for she went away to school to her tribe she married n a ayoun young brave who already had a n wife and baby I III didn't want to marry him I didn't love she confessed Rut But my people me to marry him Now r I no longer live with him I Iam Iam Iam am divorced Divorce among the Navajos consists consists consists con con- In separation without benefit of ot n a court decree Marriage also often takes tales place without n u ceremony The common procedure Is for tor the Navajo mal maiden en and her loser lo to living under the same shelter thereby a an air to the clan they are mar mar- ried red Occasionally after the first child Is born they have a n marriage ceremony It Is not strange said sold pan pah for tor a Navajo man to have moro more than one wife at the same time But the woman never has two husbands husband unless one Is dead or unless she hat hag haga n a divorce |