Standing Flower
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: August 20, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780874806892
Subjects: Anthropology - General; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Native Americans; Social Science / Native American Studies; Social Science; Biography / Autobiography; Arizona; Biography; Hopi Indian Reservation; Indian judges; Indian reservation police; Pabanale, Irving,; Tewa Indians; d. 1972; Sociology
Description: "Standing Flower - Irving Pabanale's Tewa name - was born in the latter part of the nineteenth century into a rich and unique heritage. Around 1700 his Tewa ancestors migrated from the Rio Grande to the Hopi community of First Mesa. They came at the invitation of the Hopi to serve as warrior-protectors against marauding Utes, a relocation exceptional in the history of the Pueblo Southwest.

Not only did the Arizona Tewa fulfill their military and later police duties, eventually a number of them served as brokers or intermediaries between Hispanic and Anglo culture on the one hand and Hopi culture on the other, through it all preserving their language and much of their Rio Grande way of life." "Irving Pabanale was no exception, working on the tribal police force, serving as a judge, and then becoming a medicine man.".

"Toward the end of his life, between 1966 and 1969, he recorded a series of reminiscences and folktales in consultation with Robert Black. In Standing Flower, Black has compiled these episodes, adding relevant historical and anthropological commentary." "This is a chronicle of the life of a culture broker who witnessed the great changes that took place in Hopiland during the early and middle years of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.