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This is the journey of Sun-haired maiden Cindy Ellis. A path she thought would simply lead her to Tuba City to train a horse for a friend. But the old woman she has met along the way has asked for a ride on the blue horse. A ride that takes them to a world torn apart by poverty and sorrow. A world the old woman - the Godmother - watches over. And with her spindle in hand, she spins a web of love - so beautiful, so magical ...
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A New Godmother Spins Her Magic in The Hopi Partitioned Land
When I conceived the Godmother, it was with the idea of Godmothers as a universal force for good. Not only Felicity Fortune, and not only Europeans could be godmothers, but all of the caretaking entities in the fairytales and folktales of different peoples and places. Twenty-five years ago I worked at the Gallup Indian Medical Center, as it was known then, in Gallup New Mexico, as a nurse. Working among and for them, I fell in love with the Navajo and Pueblo peoples and their cultures and always wanted to write about them. The Godmother stories gave me the opportunity. I wasn't sure at first how it would come together. I thought that the problems people had 25 years ago would be different now, and some of them are. I nearly went into culture shock going back to a vastly larger, but also far friendlier and less bigoted and racist Gallup. Window Rock, instead of being merely a collection of mobile homes set against the historic rock, was now a big modern town too, and the beautiful Navajo Nation headquarters building now serves the functions of many of the former, humbler dwellings. I had lost track of my former friends, but a friend of Anne McCaffrey's niece Valerie and a colleague of my friend the Vietnam Veteran's counselor in Fairbanks shared their experiences and those of their friends and acquaintances with me, providing me with insights into problems faced by both Navajos and Hopis today. My new Navajo friend invited me to stay with her family, which I did for ten days, and took me out to visit her aunt and grandmother in their traditional homes down a backroad on the rez. My Hopi friend gave me a lot of background from the viewpoint of a Hopi who is traditional in his religious adherrance but progressive in his wish for his people to enjoy the practical advantages of modern life. Their views were very different on some issues, quite similar on others. In addition, I read the newspapers from the area when I returned home, and also many books full of background on Navajo and Hopi lore. From these, I found the figure who was most similar to my fairy godmothers and created for her a mysterious modern persona. I don't believe I have ever enjoyed researching and writing a book as much as I did this one.
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When I conceived the Godmother, it was with the idea of Godmothers as a universal force for good. Not only Felicity Fortune, and not only Europeans could be godmothers, but all of the caretaking entities in the fairytales and folktales of different peoples and places. Twenty-five years ago I worked at the Gallup Indian Medical Center, as it was known then, in Gallup New Mexico, as a nurse. Working among and for them, I fell in love with the Navajo and Pueblo peoples and their cultures and always wanted to write about them. The Godmother stories gave me the opportunity. I wasn't sure at first how it would come together. I thought that the problems people had 25 years ago would be different now, and some of them are. I nearly went into culture shock going back to a vastly larger, but also far friendlier and less bigoted and racist Gallup. Window Rock, instead of being merely a collection of mobile homes set against the historic rock, was now a big modern town too, and the beautiful Navajo Nation headquarters building now serves the functions of many of the former, humbler dwellings. I had lost track of my former friends, but a friend of Anne McCaffrey's niece Valerie and a colleague of my friend the Vietnam Veteran's counselor in Fairbanks shared their experiences and those of their friends and acquaintances with me, providing me with insights into problems faced by both Navajos and Hopis today. My new Navajo friend invited me to stay with her family, which I did for ten days, and took me out to visit her aunt and grandmother in their traditional homes down a backroad on the rez. My Hopi friend gave me a lot of background from the viewpoint of a Hopi who is traditional in his religious adherrance but progressive in his wish for his people to enjoy the practical advantages of modern life. Their views were very different on some issues, quite similar on others. In addition, I read the newspapers from the area when I returned home, and also many books full of background on Navajo and Hopi lore. From these, I found the figure who was most similar to my fairy godmothers and created for her a mysterious modern persona. I don't believe I have ever enjoyed researching and writing a book as much as I did this one.
A magical Navajo woman known as "Grandma" watches protectively over Cindy Ellis, on her way to Tuba City to train a horse for a friend, as she walks through a land of poverty and sorrow, spinning her a web of love and guiding her through the darkness.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0441005039
- ISBN 13 9780441005031
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages308
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