WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.290 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.290 --> 00:00:03.060 align:middle line:84% This next thing that I want to read to you 00:00:03.060 --> 00:00:07.360 align:middle line:84% is based on some of these very old time kinds of stories. 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:15.720 align:middle line:84% There's a series of legends, myths involving a woman. 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:17.430 align:middle line:90% They call her Yellow Woman. 00:00:17.430 --> 00:00:19.170 align:middle line:90% Kochininako. 00:00:19.170 --> 00:00:23.040 align:middle line:84% And she appears in different kinds of stories. 00:00:23.040 --> 00:00:28.920 align:middle line:84% She seems to take on different personalities 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:30.000 align:middle line:90% depending on the stories. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.970 align:middle line:90% 00:00:32.970 --> 00:00:37.770 align:middle line:84% But when I was a little kid, we used to hear these stories. 00:00:37.770 --> 00:00:42.330 align:middle line:84% And I think what comes through the stories 00:00:42.330 --> 00:00:47.730 align:middle line:84% is this easy attitude towards these certain things. 00:00:47.730 --> 00:00:50.350 align:middle line:84% This piece is called "Storytelling." 00:00:50.350 --> 00:00:53.340 align:middle line:90% And this is the prologue. 00:00:53.340 --> 00:00:58.500 align:middle line:84% "You should understand the way it was back then because it 00:00:58.500 --> 00:01:00.210 align:middle line:90% is the same even now. 00:01:00.210 --> 00:01:04.269 align:middle line:90% 00:01:04.269 --> 00:01:07.570 align:middle line:84% Long ago, it happened that her husband left to hunt deer 00:01:07.570 --> 00:01:08.860 align:middle line:90% before dawn. 00:01:08.860 --> 00:01:13.660 align:middle line:84% And then she got up and went to get water early in the morning. 00:01:13.660 --> 00:01:16.090 align:middle line:84% She walked to the river when the sun 00:01:16.090 --> 00:01:19.570 align:middle line:90% came over the long, red mesa. 00:01:19.570 --> 00:01:21.830 align:middle line:84% He was waiting for her that morning, 00:01:21.830 --> 00:01:25.480 align:middle line:84% in the tamarack and willow beside the river. 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:29.500 align:middle line:90% Buffalo man in buffalo leggings. 00:01:29.500 --> 00:01:31.270 align:middle line:90% Are you here already? 00:01:31.270 --> 00:01:32.470 align:middle line:90% Yes, he said. 00:01:32.470 --> 00:01:33.880 align:middle line:90% He was smiling. 00:01:33.880 --> 00:01:36.580 align:middle line:90% Because I came for you. 00:01:36.580 --> 00:01:39.650 align:middle line:84% She looked into the shallow, clear water. 00:01:39.650 --> 00:01:42.850 align:middle line:84% But where shall I put my water jar? 00:01:42.850 --> 00:01:45.910 align:middle line:84% Upside down right here, he told her. 00:01:45.910 --> 00:01:49.240 align:middle line:90% On the riverbank. 00:01:49.240 --> 00:01:51.280 align:middle line:90% Part Two. 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:53.020 align:middle line:84% You better have a damn good story, 00:01:53.020 --> 00:01:54.910 align:middle line:84% her husband said, about where you've 00:01:54.910 --> 00:01:58.660 align:middle line:84% been for the past 10 months and how you explain these twin baby 00:01:58.660 --> 00:02:01.240 align:middle line:90% boys. 00:02:01.240 --> 00:02:02.020 align:middle line:90% Part Three. 00:02:02.020 --> 00:02:05.317 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:05.317 --> 00:02:06.730 align:middle line:90% 00:02:06.730 --> 00:02:09.400 align:middle line:90% No, that gossip isn't true. 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:10.720 align:middle line:90% She didn't elope. 00:02:10.720 --> 00:02:15.280 align:middle line:84% She was kidnapped by that Mexican at Se Ama feast. 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:17.605 align:middle line:84% You know my daughter isn't that kind of girl. 00:02:17.605 --> 00:02:20.470 align:middle line:90% 00:02:20.470 --> 00:02:22.990 align:middle line:90% Four. 00:02:22.990 --> 00:02:27.250 align:middle line:90% It was in the summer of 1967. 00:02:27.250 --> 00:02:30.790 align:middle line:90% TV news reported a kidnapping-- 00:02:30.790 --> 00:02:34.990 align:middle line:84% four Laguna women and three Navajo men 00:02:34.990 --> 00:02:40.390 align:middle line:84% headed North along the Rio Puerco River in a red '56 Ford. 00:02:40.390 --> 00:02:42.910 align:middle line:84% And the FBI and the state police were hot 00:02:42.910 --> 00:02:46.840 align:middle line:84% on their trail of wine bottles and size 42 panties 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:51.520 align:middle line:84% hanging in bushes and trees all along the road. 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:55.120 align:middle line:84% We couldn't escape them, he told police later. 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:59.170 align:middle line:84% We tried, but there were four of them and only three of us. 00:02:59.170 --> 00:03:02.509 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:03:02.509 --> 00:03:03.710 align:middle line:90% 00:03:03.710 --> 00:03:04.210 align:middle line:90% Five. 00:03:04.210 --> 00:03:07.900 align:middle line:90% 00:03:07.900 --> 00:03:10.420 align:middle line:84% It seems like it's always happening to me, 00:03:10.420 --> 00:03:12.370 align:middle line:90% outside the dance hall door. 00:03:12.370 --> 00:03:14.410 align:middle line:90% Late Friday night. 00:03:14.410 --> 00:03:16.030 align:middle line:90% In the summertime. 00:03:16.030 --> 00:03:20.050 align:middle line:84% And those brown-eyed men from Cubero, smiling. 00:03:20.050 --> 00:03:22.360 align:middle line:84% They usually ask me, have you seen 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:25.660 align:middle line:84% the way the stars shine up there in the Sandhills? 00:03:25.660 --> 00:03:27.880 align:middle line:90% And I usually say, no. 00:03:27.880 --> 00:03:29.370 align:middle line:90% Will you show me? 00:03:29.370 --> 00:03:30.370 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:03:30.370 --> 00:03:32.920 align:middle line:90% Part Six. 00:03:32.920 --> 00:03:36.370 align:middle line:84% It was that Navajo from Alamo, you know, 00:03:36.370 --> 00:03:39.460 align:middle line:90% the tall, good-looking one? 00:03:39.460 --> 00:03:42.580 align:middle line:84% He told me he'd kill me if I didn't go with him. 00:03:42.580 --> 00:03:46.300 align:middle line:84% And then it rained so much and the roads got muddy. 00:03:46.300 --> 00:03:50.950 align:middle line:84% That's why it took so long to get back home. 00:03:50.950 --> 00:03:53.500 align:middle line:84% My husband left after he heard the story. 00:03:53.500 --> 00:03:55.450 align:middle line:90% Moved back in with his mother. 00:03:55.450 --> 00:03:57.440 align:middle line:90% I don't blame him either. 00:03:57.440 --> 00:04:00.387 align:middle line:84% I could have told the story better than I did." 00:04:00.387 --> 00:04:02.255 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:04:02.255 --> 00:04:03.190 align:middle line:90% 00:04:03.190 --> 00:04:04.740 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:04:04.740 --> 00:04:11.000 align:middle line:90%