Voices of Navajo Mothers and Daughters: Portraits of Beauty
| After living and working on the Navajo Reservation during the late 1970s, my husband Bill (’69) and I moved to Flagstaff, Arizona. He practiced dentistry, and I taught middle-school students English and history. Having a deep interest in how Navajos utilized their land, I published Time Among the Navajo: Traditional Lifeways on the Reservation. In 2009 David Young-Wolff (Wolffie,’71) asked me a visionary question. He announced, “Krinkle, if you do another book, could I do it with you?” David, a well-known professional photographer and his wife Pam (’71) lived in Santa Monica, California. At that same time, I had been thinking about a book on Navajo women. I broached the idea to David and Pam about interviewing and photographing Navajo mothers and daughters. Thirteen years later, David, Pam, my husband Bill, (our technology expert,’69), and I collaborated to publish Voices of Navajo Mothers and Daughters: Portraits of Beauty through Soulstice Publishing. We traveled to the Navajo Reservation twelve times to interview and photograph two, three, and four generations of these remarkable women. The four of us along with Soulstice Publishing created a valuable work that honors wise, resilient, and knowledgeable mothers and daughters, and preserves the changing ways of Navajo living. |
Posted in on April 25, 2022.
