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Monday, September 29, 2003

"Margaret King mastered both Paiute and Navajo cultures, whose languages are as different as English and Chinese. She has woven Navajo rugs and Paiute baskets. She has been both a midwife and a medicine woman, taught by her Paiute mother and grandmother.

She wishes this interview had happened years ago, but she's at peace with her vanishing memory, saying she's like a child now. She has not forgotten the powers of the land and moving water. When asked what it is about whites that saps these powers, she begins, "Yaaaaa! Hoodaaa!" and mentions asphalt, electricity and towers on mountains as all disturbing the medicine. "

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Another View: 'Run before dawn' and other advice from a Native American (The Salt Lake Tribune 9/29)

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