Book
Tall woman: the life story of Rose Mitchell, a Navajo woman, c. 1874-1977
University of New Mexico Press • Albuquerque • Published In 2001 • Pages:
By: Mitchell, Rose, approximately, Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson.
Abstract
This is the autobiography of a Navajo woman, Tall Woman (Rose Mitchell), who was reportedly born in 1874, six years after the Navajo people returned from incarceration at Fort Sumner in Arizona (1863-1868), and who died at the age of over102 in 1977. The document is told in her own words, but in English translation, and supported by numerous endnotes at the end of the text drawn from a variety of source material. Her story is sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, but always containing a wealth of ethnographic information on Navajo culture as she experienced it from her earliest childhood to just before her death. Appendix B of this work (pp. 352-377) presents a chronological sequence of events in the life of Tall Woman, her family and community from about 1850 to the late 1990s.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2004
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 2003
- Field Date
- 1963-1998
- Coverage Date
- ca. 1874-1998
- Coverage Place
- Navajo Reservation, Chinle area, Arizona, United States
- Notes
- Rose Mitchell ; edited by Charlotte J. Frisbie
- Includes bibliographical references (p. xl-liii, 489-515) and index
- LCCN
- 00009014
- LCSH
- Navajo Indians