Bertha Dutton letters 1962

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Bertha Dutton letters 1962

The file consists of two letters to Dutton, one from Frank Waters, the other from White Bear. They are about the drawings made by White Bear of the Kuaua drawings found in the now Coronado Monument.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7526779

Museum of New Mexico Library

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Waters, Frank, 1902-1995

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Frank Waters, writer and editor, was born July 25, 1902, at the foot of Pike's Peak, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His father, who was part Cherokee died when Frank was 12 years old. It was his father who initially sparked Frank's interest in Indian culture. Waters attended Colorado College (Colorado Springs) from 1922-25 as an engineering student. He dropped out after his third year to take a job as a laborer in the Salt Creek, Wyoming oil fields. He later worked as an engineer for the Souther...

Dutton, Bertha P. (Bertha Pauline), 1903-1994

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Fredericks, Oswald White Bear.

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White Bear (Oswald Fredericks) spent most of his life as a Hopi artist and story teller working for various youth organizations. One of his accomplishments was the carving of the Goldwater Kachina Collection which now resides at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. His second major accomplishment was collecting oral histories of Hopi people. These oral histories were the basis of Frank Waters', Book of the Hopi. White Bear was born in Old Oraibi on February 6, 1905 to Charles an...