Meet Mindy: A Native Girl From the Southwest
by Susan SecakukuNational Museum of the American Indian
and Beyond Words Publishing
2003
Paperback: 48 pages
ISBN-10: 1582700915
ISBN-13: 978-1582700915
$15.95
Synopsis
This book presents the Hopi and Tewa peoples of the Southwest through the real life of 14-year-old Mindy Secakuku. Journey with Mindy through her coming-of-age ceremony, her daily life at high school, and her participation in the Yah-ne-wah Dance. Meet Mindy’s father and grandfather, who carve beautiful katsina dolls, and discover the Hopi traditions of growing corn, weaving baskets, and making clay pots. Informative and lively, the book shows in words and color photographs how a Hopi girl today celebrates her Native identity while living in contemporary society.
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"Meet Mindy unselfconsciously shows the seamless way most American Indians smoothly step between traditional Indian and current mainstream lives. The book is vibrant, refreshing, inviting. It feels very, very today. Colorful, intimate, authentic, and personable, it is a peek into the lives of a few of the 10,000 Hopi in the United States." --News from Indian Country
About the author
Susan Secakuku grew up on the Hopi Reservation’s Second Mesa and is a member of the Hopi Butterfly Clan. She received her B.S. from Arizona State University and her M.A. in Museum Studies from George Washington University. After six years on the staff of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, she returned to Hopi in 2002, where she works as an independent consultant on Native community development projects in culture and tourism issues.
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