Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1910 — GIRL LIVES AMONG PUEBLOS [ARTICLE]

GIRL LIVES AMONG PUEBLOS

English Student Writes Home of Interesting Experiences Jn Hew Mexico. London. —Miss Frierre-Marreco, who holds a research fellowship to Somerville College, Oxford, an adventurous young woman who is deeply interested in the study of anthropology and who has taken the unconventional course of living with the Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, with a view to getting first-hand information in her pursuit of knowledge, has been writing to her friends in Oxford giving interesting details of her life among the Indians. ' -i. She tells how the Indians have christened her "Ta Yopovi,” or "Flower of the Sedge.” She lives by herself In a little house of wood and canvas, doing practically all her own housework. "The Indians treat her with every courtesy and friendliness. She findß an obstacle to her purpose, however, in their reticence on all matters relating to themselves. "The people are extremely proud and sensitive,” she writes, “and very much on an equality witlr white people, in their own estimation, at least. There is an obvious determination to frustrate the inquisition of white people. In some places it is veiled under forms of politeness; in others it takes the form of open hostility.” She further tells that she succeeded best with the old ’women, whom she Induced to teach her something about Indian medicine.