Growing Up and Looking Out: My Life From Laguna Pueblo to Albuquerque

by Katherine Augustine

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632931795
Publisher:	Sunstone Press
Publication date:	05/04/2017
Pages:	74
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.18(d)

About the Author

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 Mexio 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.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgement

My Life From Laguna Pueblo to Albuquerque

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

Indian “Education” Meant Changing Names

A Morn, Moment with Grandmother

Growing Up in a Time of Storytelling, Wagons, Feasts

School and Daily Chores Form the Basis for Discipline

I Can Tell You, Boarding School was Bad

Life in Boxcar Colonies in the 1940s

I Remember My Hectic Happy Days as a Harvey Girl

At Seventeen I Was Saying Aloha to Sea Changes in My Life

Teaching’s in the Blood, But I Set My Cap on Nursing

The Busy Days and On-call Nights of Nursing

In 1950, We Truly Became Professionals

Path to Nursing Led Away from Korea, toward Duke City

The Laguna Colony of Albuquerque

Tales My Grandmother Told Me and Being Laguna

The Hunt for Wild Celery

The Deer Hunter

The Rabbit Hunt

The Tale of Two Sashes

The Sacred Rocks

A Pueblo Harvest

A Winter Celebration at Laguna Pueblo

Seama Feast

The Taos Pow-Wow

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