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"It was peaceful with us, but once in a while we were troubled by other -tribes. We had wars sometimes. My tribe has always lived around Prescott and what is now Yavapai Coun- - ty." Ber serenity is marked when shoe-whi-te. peo,---addresses an audience of limb- -,; Her command of English is not fluent, but she can always make 4'1 understood without and her fund of makes her a welcome public speaker. , ' After an address before the members of the Yavapai Gem and Mineral -- Prescott, - she -- was - made a life member of the orgalxizAn address before the al'availai mail County Archaeological Society in the same city led to a similar honor. Because so little is known about-th- e TIMM CNIEFT.AIN IN THE UNITED STAM Yavapais, their legends as recalled by 7 Mrs. Jimulla- - and her own experj;- ences have historic value. One charming legend tells of Grandmother White Feather and her grand-loo- k to whom the Yavapais upas examples of bow to lead the good Not many women become chief life. Grandmother White Feather is supped to be as beautifull and small of an Indian few as a- - white soft' feather; and "who- -ever sees her in a vision, nd believes in her, will never grow old." chieftains hold such a position 11 - X' . o,-,...- 4, 40 .4.11,10111 Sio'o, 6 f I.,' , - t -- t; : ! gais;NissmodagnmaannammitakilmmAdomoloommonabk--'.:examAT 69 "um OF AGE, GRANDMOTHER VIOLA. JIMULLA N THE cll 1 m ONLY WOMAN - I 'VIE J tribeand , - -- -- , tribe are like the folklore which the white man prizes. Like others of her tribe, she has become a Chris tian, finding in this religic;it an experience which makes her "very happy." in Prescott, in the Vtrde, Valley of Although calm, she is not staid. She has a quiet humor and Yavapai County, or in the Salt River smiles easily, As the walks along Valley at Fort McDowell, east of the streets of Prescott, intent upon Phoenix; but when she was a little some errand, she bows and smiles girl the old tribal life persisted, and, immediately should tome friend meet IS in stores handed down, she still her. You can ten from her walk able to picture what it was like when that she is energetic, an energy she her people lived in the shadowof to good account, until a year. turned ' Granite Peak. or two ago, when she worked in a Viola is 69 now. She is a mother local hotel to support her grandchilland a grandmother. When her hus- - . dren. With all her love of the Vevaband died she became head of the pal tribal past, she is laptable to tribe. No one came forward to take living in the present. She is a leader his place, no one Proposed a male of her people who recognizes changed conditions and makes the best of successor; so. the tribe turned to them. She is Viola, serene chief of Viola, serene and strong, to guide them.. In her seventieth year, the the Yavapais. -- Photo by Eleanor Allan Chief Viola Jimulla home on the Tava- Reservation, overlookh ing Arizona's city of Prescott; she likes to get up to greet the dawn. She goes into her garden to watch the sun rise above the hills of Tavapai. The white people of Prescott are buying up more and more land to fitillc houses, sometimes packing them close in lots; but Viola, serene head of the Tavapais, has am, pie space around her little home, and a thrilling panorama of mountains and pine trees, including majestic Granite Mountain where her people used to live. WHEN mile-hig- 1 50-fo- ot , meta NEWS MAGAZINE, SALT LAKE CITY. Viol( believes that a good wky to start day is to see the rising Like Thoreau by Walden pond and in Walden woods, she has found that no companion is "so companionable as solitude." Like an good Indians and lovers of the outdoors, she feels very close to nature when she is off by herself to see the sun's rays ' " flood the horizon. sun. Whenever she gazes upon Granite Mountain she is particularly moved because all the associations of her tribal, life are clustered around it. Her tribe, now small in numbers, lives today either on the reservation, ummDeamsta a. 1 ris sh. - 21 - |