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ItiZnstkiZlmtS-k THE BOOK REPORT You Can Count on Fashion Costs? No Mora at Sears Hopi Girl's Fight to Bridge I Gap to White Man's World Ark Polingaysi studied for a time here at the Bible Institute. Her faith in Christianity remained firm but she did not become a missionary. Instead, she drifted into teaching for the Indian became one of the best instructors they had. impelled her; there were in her tribal ways and lore, things which were equally powerful. But there was aii reality: a recognition that things had changed, that it was no longer possible to live a dream.

The fact is that she loved both worlds, and re jected things in both worlds But the Banana world had one important factor in its favor. It was for better or worse, the world of the future, and she had to live into the future. From the sohoolhouse in Oraibi, she went on to Riverside, voluntarily, to the land of the oranges, far from the mesa of her childhood. There she began to dream of the possibility of earning her own way, of building her own house at Oraibi. She returned from California another person: "What shall I do with my daughter, who is now my mother?" But they no longer tried to change her.

With a perverse pride against those in the village who mocked the Indian girl who had become "a white man," they stopped trying to change her. Indeed began to accept her ways. Through a Mennonite missionary family, Polingaysi made her way to Kansas. She now had the idea of becoming a missionary herself. In Kansas she attended Bethel Academy, found sincere friends but also some condescension and the bitter claw of a prejudice which prevented her because of her dark skin from eating in certain restaurants.

The irony was not lost upon her but she did not allow it to embitter her. "How can people say one skin is colored," she asked herself, "when each has its own coloration? What should it matter that one bowl is dark and the other pale, if each is of good design and serves its purpose well?" For, "we are clay blended by the Master Potter, come from the kiln of She was a good teacher, perhaps a great one. But, true to its purposes, this book never exaggerates the success involved. For Polingaysi's real fulfillment came as much in the quest for her own identity, as in the very real contribution she made in the classrooms, and is now making in her scholarship fund to aid young Hopis to go on to higher education. Indeed, her personal life was not, by Alger standards, a happy one.

Her marriage foundered. She had many conflicts and struggles. But in the end, she found that there was something at the heart of her two worlds which could bring them together. The anthropologists call this acculturation. It is a useful word which somehow falls short of describing the complexities and drama of how it happens in the life of an individual who has to synthesize the new culture with the old, The story of Polingaysi eloquently provides this indispensable element.

HOLIDAY AWARD WINNER For Reservations DUnkirk 2-1261 1 ROBERT R. KIRSCH Timtt Book Editor Before the turn of the -'Ventury, there lived a Ho-fcpi child, Polingaysi, whose name meant Butterfly Sit- ting Among the Flowers Jn the Breeze. She lived at -a place called Oraibi, a 'member of her mother's Clan, a child of her father's Kachina Clan. In $he experience of her life, Jshe was ultimately to take another name, Elizabeth White, to become a to know in daily life the constant stab of living two worlds, the Jtvorld of the Hopi and the of the Bahana, the "white man. On the turface, Eli- zabeth White's story could, have been one of those slick and reassuring tales I of success designed to our guilts about the It is a story of success and fulfillment, but she and her biographer, Vada F.

Carlson, have cho-t sen to tell it with such 'deep honesty and power that it is the story which is of the utmost importance not the ending. NO TURNING BACK: A True Story of a Hopi Indian -Girl's Struggle to Bridge me uap Between uie World of Her People and the World of the White (The University of New Mexico Press: illustrated) is one of the krare and important of the Indian experience. It belongs along-' side Theodora Kroeber's "Ishi" as an account of the collision of two cultures. For Polingaysi can see both worlds with equal clarity and objectivity. That, -in essence, is the great contribution of her 'Narrative.

And in experiencing both worlds, she can tell us much of the values and the debits of -each. Shy and timid, but curious and in an engaging way, courageous and thoroughly individual, Polingaysi was one of the Hopi children hidden by her vil- lagC YV UC1 bite VYiukv ivu -came with Navajo police-Jiaen to take the young-, sters to the newly built schoolhouse. Something about the school stirred She questioned the Children who had been caught, anxious. to know what was done in that place. Finally, she could not i resist.

She wfnt voluntarily to that school. It was the first step in a long journey. Her parents disapproved. Her mother said: have taken a step in wrong direction, A step away from your Hopi people. You have brought i grief to us You have brought this thing upon yourself, and there, is no turning back." It would be comforting say that Polingaysi's education brought her a substitution for the ancient wisom of her people.

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