Blood and Ice: Intimacy and Factionalism at Fort Defiance Indian Agency, 1887–1888.
On a bitterly cold morning on November 19, 1887, six Navajo boys were walking across the school grounds at Fort Defiance Indian Agency when they came across a clot of blood containing a human fetus. A brief investigation by the agent pointed to the unmarried school matron as being the mother of the...
| Publicado en: | Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 209 - 232 |
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