Book
Me and mine: the life story of Helen Sekaquaptewa
University of Arizona Press • Tuscon • Published In 1969 • Pages:
By: Sekaquaptewa, Helen, Udall, Louise.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Me and Mine is the autobiography of Helen Sekaquaptewa, a Hopi woman of Oraibi pueblo in northeastern Arizona, as told to Louise Udall who recorded the text of this work. This study covers Helen's early childhood in Oraibi, her education, marriage, and family life, and is interspersed throughout with much Hopi ethnography. An epilogue by Louise Udall presents rief biographical sketches of the Sekaquaptewa children.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Water supply
- Exchange transactions
- External trade
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Nuptials
- Family relationships
- Community heads
- Political parties
- Organized ceremonial
- Missions
- Ceremonial during infancy and childhood
- Education system
- Elementary education
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hopi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1898 - 1960s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Oraibi pueblo, Third Mesa, northeastern Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- as told to Louise Udall ; Illustrated by Phillip Sekaquaptewa
- Includes index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 68054714
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hopi Indians