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Category Archives: Tahoma’s Family
Remembering Tahoma’s Family Past
This photo is posted as part of Travel Photo Thursday, and you can see more photos at Budget Travel Sandbox. Vera and Charnell traveled to Tuba City in search of the history of Navajo artist Quincy Tahoma, and with the help … Continue reading
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Tagged photograph, Quincy Tahoma, Saganitso family, Tuba City
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What’s in a Name?
Post by Vera Marie NOTE: I did not realize when I wrote this article that it would land in the middle of another name controversy. The code name Geronimo was used for the operation to kill Osama Bin Laden. Take … Continue reading
Posted in Tahoma's Family, Tahoma's Personal Life
Tagged Bi-Gaani, Diné, Geronoma Montoya, Navajo names, nicknames, Pop Chalee, Quincy Tahoma, Taos PUeblo, Tuba City School
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Tahoma’s Guardian Angel
Post by Vera As guardian angels go, you would be hard pressed to find a more unlikely one than Spanish-American, hard-working, wheeler-dealer, political-pro Eppie Montoya. But Eppie indeed served as a guardian angel when Quincy Tahoma most needed help. We … Continue reading
Navajo Comfort Food
Post by Charnell Lordie, how Quincy Tahoma longed for mutton stew! Friends said he craved it all his life, especially during his earlier years at the Santa Fe Indian School where mutton stew was nowhere to be found. Once in … Continue reading
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Tagged herding sheep, Mutton Stew, Navajo Food, recipe, Santa Fe Indian School
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Happy Birthday Quincy
A character in a novel starts as a blank page. The author creates a name, a birthplace, a locale, a personality and talents.
Posted in Girl Friends, Navajo, Tahoma's Family
Tagged Birthday, Christmas, Quincy Tahoma, Santa Fe Indian School, Tuba City
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Quincy Tahoma Goes to School in Tuba City
Of course things have changed since the scrawny little boy was ushered over to Tuba City Boarding School to start his education. Tuba City has paved streets and tourists come to the shiny motel run by the Navajo Nation. But … Continue reading
Posted in American Indian Art, Tahoma's Family
Tagged American Indian, artists, Navajo artist, Tuba City
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Who Were Tahoma’s Parents?
We pursued the mystery of Tahoma’s parents, getting theories that he was raised by non-Indians or that he would have been put out to die. Continue reading
Tracking Tahoma in the Census Records
We pursued the leads from the January 2005 copies of National Archives Santa Fe Indian School records. David Brugge explained that the closest he could come to the name Sigantizo that we found on the school record as a guardian, … Continue reading
Posted in Book Contributors, Navajo, Tahoma's Family
Tagged Census, Elmer Jenkins, Navajo clan, Siganitzo, St. Michaels, to'ahanie clan
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