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aR 208 “EF AUGHING Boy turning them to her use, as though she were tzz- ing weapons from her enemies. She could shaz= and bend men, she could control her destinies = theirs. In her thoughts, she tasted in advan: the happiness of the goal towards which === aimed, and she felt her power, power, power; azz so, as far as she could tell, she was happy. Her weaving was winning Laughing Bov: unstinted praise, and, to her surprise and grez: satisfaction, becoming a source of income. Tk: trading post in Los Palos would pass on to h=s occasional orders from tourists or people in tk: East. If she had been willing to weave th= entirely un-Indian pictures of actual objects tha: so many tourists demand, she could have had z_ the work she could handle at fancy prices; but sk= refused to do anything, or use any colours nc: purely Navajo, and she strengthened her husban: in his natural reluctance to stamp shapeles: § strings of swastikas, thunder-birds, and othe: § curiosities on his silver. She was precious abou: it, as she was about all Navajo things. It wason: piece with her eagerness to speak familiarly ¢f | everything familiar to them, to participate iz | every phase of their life, to acquire completely th: Navajo gesture. When they were rich and lived | in the North, she thought, she would make hersel an influence for preserving all native ways; she

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