https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/88114ba26f5ed62a8e6403eebfee6291.pdf 01a35a68c3ab12962847820c2947524c PDF Text Text ' r '5(k ' ('1\ · -.... - 'trTff ; / ~ _t-t:j,J_ \ ~ ,\\,,.,/£[ ~ 1/!!p; . _ t \i l . r ,.,.-:; - =7 , •-· ~ .~ /¥ ;/ ' ' '--= ---~'ft;·) \ ~ ~ ~ - ·. , \' -\ ' - ¼ - c,.. • \ I , > 11 1 't , ,(:___) ~;,1 1- - -""' - - / r:::;-,~~"?, . \- , - -· -, . .... . t1~ l! ~ '- ' . 1 ~· - ,6 J , I I1-:- ~), --1 ::=7 ;_, ; -'-?: e :f-" ;;t;::,. ,_[ ..."<'·I ,. 1/; ~ r,' u," ,~ ; .::a::.\ .¢ J r ~ ~11, • • �DAISY WASHIUGTON WATTS Though nest peo31le are now· Ur.aware of the fact, the famous Chi~ey Rocks which rise between Stollsteiner Creek and the Piedra River were once ca.2.led Los Filare_.s de Washington. Also, the valley below the p'illars was cal:Led :fashington Flats. Both were naned for a rer:::.arkable Indian . family whose descendants still live in this area. . Daisy -i.-:atts :was -oorn near ChiED.ey Rock on Jan. 18, 1901+, the daughter of Joseph and Jane Hatts. Hhen Ja..-ri.e died 2 years later, Daisy was raised by her gra..11cl~other, lfartha, and her grandfather, George ·.:ashington. George and 1-rartha ·were not still living in a teepee, but otherwise they still follo·wed the old ·uays. George 1-ras, as nost lt3erican sch._ool children would say, a 11 real 11 Indian. He was a hunter, a .fisher and ·a. 1.mods-wise ~an little changed by J>_TJ.glo er S:pa..n.ish cult ure. People ,-ib.o saw hin never forgot George i:ashington, partly because of the ·way he dressed. During sur....::ter and most of the w;inter George wore nothing but a breechcloth held in place by a string a.."'1.d \-,~s one of the last of his tribe to dress in this fashie,p. Since he, like ~ost of his ancestors, had 1.{orn this scanty costu~e all of his life, his skih was very dark, weathered and tough. His appearance vas one of toughn~ss a...n.d ferocity. Louie Vc".J..er:cia re~embers, •:r sa,-r ;-Jashington r::a.,.?J.y times ·when I ".-ras a child and was scared cf him, not because of anything he did, he 1.,;ras just a tough looking hos-ore. n Liva Pacheco's grandparents, David and Adelida Sand.oval were friends of Washington 1-.'hen they 1-rere hone steading in the Piedra Valley. Liva says, l!Ey □other, Thsodora, told :r:.e when she was a child, Hashington ca:::e to visit Eivery once in a while, but night or day he 1·muld !!ever k!J.oct:. · The f aT::i ly ·would wall1..: in fron another roco and there he would b9, sq_uatting by the fil"e. :ie ·would never sit in a chair.:: · Once . in the winter the Spanish people asked ~Iashingtcn, unon 1 t your legs and posterior get cold lincovered?' 1 Ee replied, rrcono tu cara :r!i n~ga. 11 (Ey hind-end doesn 1 t get cold for the sa.::e reason your face doesn't.) Daisy re!:e~bers her grand:parents and their 1ray· of life uell. 11 GI'a~d.father had I!:.a_TJ.y h orses. 1-~ost of the til::e theY ra....-1 wild in the hills. 1:Then he ·wanted s one, he drove then down to the·-·corra.l. He also had sheep and goats which he butchered as needed. ;.'hen I got old enough I here.ed the sheen in the hills. Grancmother al,;-;ays ta..'111ed the goatskins. She had a simple way. She rubbed the inside of the skin •with brains, let it ci.ry, rubbed it ·with brains and re-neated this till the li...ide was cured. The skins had many uses. One of- which was to 2ake leggings for us in uint~;r. Sometimes cy sisters and I used the goa t skins for a sled in sno·wy 1-rea-c~'ler. We cli.tlbed the hills with the skin and nut it hair dom1 on the snm'f. One sat in front holding the front legs of the skin and the other sat in back holding the back legs. It would go fast. Once my Uncle Fritz bought me a dollwith a china head. \·!hen my grandnother sa.""'.:T hm·T TIUch I liked it, she made me an Indian c:radle for it fro::n a board, sor.2e buckskin, willmrs and beads. I think we always had plenty to eat. The hills ·were full of food. Every sunner and .fall we picked ,-:rild strawberries, chokecherries, berries and banana · berries'i'.' until 1·1e had all we could eat and all we could dry fol" winter. The banana berries were ~y favorite. After they were dried, ,,re 1-:ould boil them and they nade a sweet syrup 1•:rithout adding a._r-1y sugar. If Grandfathe~ sold sheep, he put the rioney in a jar & buried it until we ,..-,a_rited things from the Dike store. 1-i r. Dike·, s store 11as several nil es a·way on the road . to Pagosa. In •winter he brm~ght groceries and other things on a sled a.i.""'!d · sold them to us at the house. \"lhen it was tin,e for z:i.e to go to school, I , �. we ooved ov.er to JoP..n Tayler ' s place nea.J.- Bayf ield. I went to t he Ellen· Day School for one year~ then to the Ute Boar ding school.for 4 years and to the Indian School at Sa..1"1ta Fe for 4 years. Then I was transferred to school at Albuc;.uerque for two years . When my father died I cal:le back to nacio and lived uith =Y sister Lucill.e. 11 Shortly afterward Daisy got a job doing domestic ·work for the John Landers fa:ri.ly who lived at the :a.I.A. c o!nplex north of Ignacio. Daisy oarried 3al?h Cloud ;rev. 22, 1926, at the Durango Court House. They noved out to Spring Creek on Ralph 's father's _place, where they raised bay and wheat and garden :produce . They had five children, !-:atilda, Char les who died of doulbe pneu~onia at· the age of 11, Joel Dean who died after he f'ell fro::!l. a hor se, lay Inez and Roger. After Ralph and Daisy -..-,ere divorced in 1946, Daisy ~oved to Durango to work for a year. In 1954 she bou ght a ho~e in Ignacio a.~d has lived there ever since. Daisy now .has 10 grandcn.ildren and. lives a very quiet life. '.·:e value her as a living link with a past which is very :rruch gone. \ . Shelby Scith "1ELCOHE ~O OUR S:SPT~!-fRE:l SOCIAL Date •• Where : When • : Row . Friday, September . 24, 1976 Community Center 12:00 noon Pot Luck (the Senior Office will supuly Fried I Al.l.ison-Arboles Town of Ignacio Rural area ir;; & near Ignacio ) ''f,1"-. -Chicken .for the t:1ain dish.) . Please bring main dishes Please bring desserts .. ,- - , I<i.ease bring vegetables and eaJ.a:is cb~ ~~/~ ~ ~ tnVv ~~- Franklen Carel Victor Atencio Marty Lamera Silviano Lucero Concie Cruz Patricia Silva Ray Larnmon " . .... ::,-.e.,,..,..,' ~~ ~ ~ ./(~ r'~ M~ ,~;_;fj ~;W'~,lx ~ Agnes l•Iann f? . ., __ce;~ Tommy Esparza Erdman Tobias .,~~ Get Well Soon Sanen Pronto! Gloria ;·latts1 Jennette Barry Mary Pedwell Francis Buck Lula Watts Jackie !foreno Dannell Jeffsrson Donna Downing Willard Price Irene Harmon r I" ~ ,.fl ~ !\I\J'\ I ( ' I - • t- . I· I I .\ \ • @W;__} El.mer Briggs Berenice Archuleta Russell Shock I fear three n ewspapers J"ose Quintana more than a hundred Barbara Atencio thousand ba11011ets. - !-a.poBenedita Casias Matildia Santistavan Juanita Russell Eilene Weaver David MendenhalJ Bona1>arte In spite of the all day rain, Friday the 10th, the Friendship Circle ~eld a Rummage and Bake sale and sold auite. a lot of clothing and- other ~ticles. Over $100 was cle·ared on the sale. .. ,.The ruI::l.I!lage left over from this sale was turned over to the 4-H clubs. The ~-H sale was to be in Durango Bank of Durango lot on Saturday but was postponed because of weather. · ' · ... �Title VII lfutrition P~oject If Beginning October 4, 1976 there will be a hot , nutritions z:1e¥s ser~ed at noon every Tuesday and Friday at t he Se~ior Citize ~s Ce~~e~ 67, Godda:rd Ave 1n Ignacio. All of you are invited. ~he suggested ccniidential donation will be $ • 60 ner meal. . ~ · mi If you planning to COI!le, call by 9:00 of the aay you are co ng (563J+.J61) to oake a reservation. 1ie will need for you to nake reservations for a month or so··until we can estinate the average ·nll!:lber per day~ . If you need. a ride t~ lu.."'lch, C8fl. 563-lf 561 • ·Paul~ne Rodriquez and Har gar et Our thanks to Gennevive Gunn, ~i.aria Ri~era, _ Wiseman who are serving as an advisory co:!l!:l.l.ttee to help us start the new.meals are program. Volunteers Persons interested in volunteer work at the ~eal site please call us t 5'3-4~6~ Only with your heln will we have a successful meal center. We ~eedohel; ~~ serve food and drinks, se~tin~ up the dinning area, assisting with collec~ing fees and other record Keeping. _ __ , _j - • . , - -,, -~ . - ! ·7 7---. . ' -=-~ 1· - ).-=---.....,..,-. : ,... '-t~-:--·:·, ·. ' . ~ .. n - -~;;,~ Mr. and ¥.rs Arch:i.e Archuleta from 9an Jose, California have been in the area visiting her aunts Hr. and Hrs. Ed Romero and Bertha Sandoval and other relatives . They also visited his sister Mrs. ADelaida Ruybal in Greeley, Colorado and }:r. and Hrs . Eddie Rivas in Denver. On their way hoine they went by way of .G rand Junction to visit his nephew Ernest Ruybal at Veterans Hospital and to Salt Lake City, Utah to visit anot!ler nephew Ben Ruybal that has been paralysed since early spring after being in a car accident. Se"nor y Senora Archie Archul eta de San Jose, California an andado en va·c aci6n. Aqui visi taron a las tias de la Senora Archuleta Sifrlor y Se?:"ora E· Romero y Bertha Sandoval y ot"ros parientes. En Denver pasaron un dia con Senor y Seirora Eddie Rivas , Tambien visitaron a la hermana de el Senor Archuleta Senora Adeaida Ruybal en Greely, Colorado yen el ca::nino para la casa se pararon en el hospital de los Veteranos en Grand Junction aver a su Sobrino Ernest Ruybal yen Salt Lake City, Utah a otro sobrino Ben Ruybal que esta paralizado desde que estubo en un accidente. ·. .. .. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Thoughtful Years Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1972-1979 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Ignacio Senior Center; Southern Ute; Bayfield; Arboles; Allison; Tiffany; Oxford; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Monthly newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center with various contributors describing local news, events, obituaries, and biographies of prominent community members living in Ignacio, Colorado and the surrounding area. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource English; Espanol Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby; Jones, Charlotte Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ignacio Senior Center Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Thoughtful Years: September 1976 Description An account of the resource Monthly newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center with various contributors describing local news, events, obituaries, and biographies of prominent community members living in Ignacio, Colorado and the surrounding area. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Ignacio Senior Center; Southern Ute; Bayfield; Arboles; Allison; Tiffany; Oxford; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource English; Espanol Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1976-09 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ignacio Senior Center