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    Growing Up and Looking Out: My Life from Laguna Pueblo to Albuquerque and Tales My Grandmother Told Me and Being Laguna
    Growing Up and Looking Out: My Life from Laguna Pueblo to Albuquerque and Tales My Grandmother Told Me and Being Laguna
    Growing Up and Looking Out: My Life from Laguna Pueblo to Albuquerque and Tales My Grandmother Told Me and Being Laguna
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    Growing Up and Looking Out: My Life from Laguna Pueblo to Albuquerque and Tales My Grandmother Told Me and Being Laguna

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    Katherine Augustine is an extraordinary person. This book tells Katherine’s story in her own words. It is drawn entirely from a selection of her writings in various publications, complete copies of which are available in archives in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The book is in two parts. The first, “My Life From Laguna Pueblo to Albuquerque” is Katherine’s autobiography from her childhood to the start of her nursing career. The second, “Tales My Grandmother Told Me and Being Laguna,” is a collection of Laguna Pueblo stories she learned as a child and personal observations of feast days and public ceremonies. For over thirty years she wrote stories about her life and observations of growing up at Laguna Pueblo, along with articles on current events, for several publications; these included the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center newsletter Pueblo Horizons, a column for the now defunct evening newspaper the Albuquerque Tribune, articles for the Albuquerque Laguna Colony Newsletter, and Round the Roundhouse, the New Mexico State Employees newsletter. Photographs in the first section are from Katherine’s family album, while images illustrating stories from Laguna Pueblo are derived from photographs of prehistoric art in the collection of Paul R. Secord.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSunstone Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2018
    ISBN9781611395143
    Growing Up and Looking Out: My Life from Laguna Pueblo to Albuquerque and Tales My Grandmother Told Me and Being Laguna
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    Katherine Augustine

    Katherine Augustine grew up on the Laguna Indian Reservation in New Mexico in the 1930s and was raised by a beloved grandmother. In the 1940s she lived in a boxcar in Gallup, New Mexico with her parents and five siblings. Her father worked for the railroad and during a summer vacation from the Albuquerque Indian Boarding School she worked as a Harvey Girl. Following graduation from high school she went to nursing school in Ganado, Arizona, became a registered nurse, and had a long career as a nurse in Albuquerque. She has won numerous service awards, served on numerous community boards, and has been and is a volunteer for a variety of community organizations.

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      Growing Up and Looking Out - Katherine Augustine

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      Growing Up and Looking Out

      © 2017 by Katherine Augustine

      All Rights Reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including

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      except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.

      Sunstone books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use.

      For information please write: Special Markets Department, Sunstone Press,

      P.O. Box 2321, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2321.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Augustine, Katherine, 1929- author.

      Title: Growing up and looking out : my life from Laguna Pueblo to

      Albuquerque, and tales my grandmother told me and being Laguna / by

      Katherine Augustine.

      Description: Santa Fe, NM : Sunstone Press, [2017]

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017018523 (print) | LCCN 2017029752 (ebook) | ISBN

      9781611395143 | ISBN 9781632931795 (softcover : alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Augustine, Katherine, 1929- | Laguna Indians--Biography. |

      Nurses--New Mexico--Biography. | Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico--Biography.

      | Laguna Indians--Social life and customs. | Laguna Indians--Folklore. |

      Indians of North America--Urban residence--New Mexico--Albuquerque. |

      Albuquerque (N.M.)--Biography.

      Classification: LCC E99.L2 (ebook) | LCC E99.L2 A84 2017 (print) | DDC

      978.9/91--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017018523

      www.sunstonepress.com

      SUNSTONE PRESS / Post Office Box 2321 / Santa Fe, NM 87504-2321 /USA

      (505) 988-4418 / orders only (800) 243-5644 / FAX (505) 988-1025

      To my beloved grandmother, Reyes Paisano.

      Preface and Acknowledgement

      Katherine Augustine is an extraordinary person. She grew up on the Laguna Indian Reservation in the 1930s and was raised by a beloved grandmother. In the 1940s she lived in a boxcar in Gallup with her parents and five siblings. Her father worked for the railroad and during a summer vacation from the Albuquerque Indian Boarding School she worked as a Harvey Girl. Following graduation from high school she went to nursing school in Ganado, Arizona, became a registered nurse, and had a long career as a nurse in Albuquerque. She has won numerous service awards, served on numerous community boards, has been and is a volunteer for a variety of community organizations.

      For over thirty years she wrote stories about her life and observations of growing up at Laguna Pueblo, along with articles on current events for several publications. These included the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center newsletter Pueblo Horizons, a column for the now defunct evening newspaper the Albuquerque Tribune, articles for the Albuquerque Laguna Colony Newsletter, and Round the Roundhouse, the New Mexico State Employees newsletter.

      This book tells Katherine’s story in her own words. It is drawn entirely from a selection of her writings in various publications. Copies of all of her writings are available to the public at the New Mexico State Archives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and at the Center For Southwest Research, University of New Mexico as well as the Archives of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (IPCC), in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

      The book is in two parts. The first, My Life From Laguna Pueblo to Albuquerque is Katherine’s autobiography from her childhood to the start of her nursing career. The second, Tales My Grandmother Told Me and Being Laguna is a collection of Laguna Pueblo stories she learned as a child and observations of feast days and public ceremonies.

      Photographs in the first section are from Katherine’s family album, while images illustrating stories from Laguna Pueblo are derived from photographs of prehistoric art in the collection of Paul R. Secord.

      —Paul R. Secord, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2017

      My Life From Laguna Pueblo to Albuquerque

      This is an autobiography that I wrote in a series of newspaper articles over a number of years. While for most of my life I have been a practicing nurse, active community volunteer, and traveled the world, I think my growing up on Laguna Pueblo, going to the Albuquerque Indian School, having a brief job as a Harvey Girl, and becoming a nurse will be of most interest to you.

      We’re So Close, and Yet, the History Hurts

      Let me tell you a little bit about myself.

      My name before I married was Katherine Acoya. The name Acoya in the Keres language means earring. Keres is the language I speak.

      Before my paternal grandfather went to Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania in 1881 at the age of twelve he was Shu-we-mei Oh-ku-ya-mei, meaning turquoise earring. When he returned home four years later he was Henry Acoya. He had refused the surname Analla, which was given to his brothers Fred and Thomas, who went with him to the boarding school.

      I was born on the Laguna reservation some sixty-eight years ago. I don’t mind telling you my age—the eldest of eight children. I was raised by my grandparents in the small village of Paguate, ten miles north of the mother village of Laguna Pueblo.

      At twelve years old, I was sent to the Albuquerque Indian School to pursue studies in English, math, history, geography and mostly home economics for five years.

      At

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