Tag: Slim Woman of Kayenta

“We are Particular to Preserve:” The Wetherills’ Passion to Protect the Southwest’s Past … By Harvey Leake

by stiles • December 1, 2019 • 4 Comments

An early Wetherill photograph of Cliff Palace

We are particular to preserve the buildings, but fear, unless the Gov’t sees proper to make a national park of the Cañons, including Mesa Verde, that the tourists will destroy them. B. K. Wetherill, 1890 Into the silent stone building…

Slim Woman of Kayenta…by Harvey Leake

by stiles • February 5, 2018 • 4 Comments

“The Navajos are just like other folks,” Slim Woman said to Clyde Kluckhohn, a budding anthropologist. Slim Woman was the name given by the Navajos to Louisa Wade Wetherill of Kayenta, Arizona—my great grandmother. She lived with the People…