Navajo Women

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I have found this a most interesting thread, from which I have learned more about the interface between the native North American cultures and those of the descendants of the European voyagers. Although I am a Scot living in Scotland, my mother's family are on Vancouver Island as her father's brothers all emigrated there around a hundred years ago. One of my second cousins married a native "Indian" who teaches native arts and crafts for a living and constructs totem poles in his spare time. Their daughter, in turn being of mixed Scottish/native stock then married a Mexican "Indian". So it appears to me that while the native tribes preserve their own crafts, cultures and skills, there is also a mixing with the incomers to provide the unique combination that makes Canada and the USA the great nations they are today.