https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/258bf613d1ea2a73229f8746f0123d18.pdf 6326ad3e05faf2aba0df63a45ccecc22 PDF Text Text . .. . i . • l.) . , . . �/, EUTERPK 1AYI.OR The roan was s~all and· dusty and" very dark. · Sor.1,e broken desks and piles of books were stacked nea.7 th~ rear_ ,~all. -A s9a11· indi·s ~inct .fqrn .sat very still on the floor. Tne little girl had cried. hard £or a long Euterpe was 8 years old. She had been enrolled in the Ute Agency Boarding School for a yearand a half. Ordinarily 11 Terpe 11 was very shy, but this evening at sup:;1er when the little boy at the next. table put three green :peas in his spoon and neatly flipped theo across the room to snack agai.nst another boy's face, 11 Terne 11 couldn 1 t resist the lure of a little deviltry, She was aiming her-third spoon of peas when the ~atron grabbed her arn. Isol ation in the dark roo:r:i was only one of the punish!:.ents the natron had reserved for cisbehaving children. AdCTinistering punisru::ents fox cause or often for no carise seemed to be the chief interest of the ~atron. Thou~h the mer.i.ories "Terue 11 has of her exneriences with _ the ca tron are unhap-::-y ones, perhaps some good ca~e of it. - As the years passed so~ething in the shy littl·e girl stiffened and strenghtened until· she beca-::e outsJoken a...Yid · couragepus, willing . to stand up for her rir;hts and for her f ar.2ily a.,.--id friends. '.l'hough Terpe ' s parents lived nearby (their far.t.!site is now the north part of Ignacio), they put her in the boa~ding schcol. They wanted her to get a good education, which at that ti~e largely ~eant learning to speak Engl i sh , On the first day of school Te:!:":pe couldn't s!]ealc one wor::: of English or of Ute . Though Terpe 1·s ~other ·rras · a fu,11-'rJlood Ute, · she tall:ed Spanish at ho:ne ,u1d at the age o.f 6 ~ Spanish ·was all Terp e 1-:new. 3ut children l ear n. fast and soon she could sJeak three languages ·well. She still dces. When Terpe was 8, her father , John Taylor, built a house on Joh."1 Green's place nor th of to•.,m and moved his f a!:lily there. Terpe got to attend the Ellen Day School. She lilted it r:uch better· than the boardir.g sch.col part1y because she got to live at ho~e. The me~ory of the day the doctc~s ca~e to Ellen Day. School is still with her. A sr:all pox vaccination in 190 8 •..r:2.s n o gentle pricl:ing of the ar~. The doctors of that ti~e felt it neces s ary to raake many crisscross sla shing cut s on the upper arm to insure the vaccinati on took . "We were 11 all whooping and holleri ng and screeching . I f e lt li1-:e Terpe went to school t ill she was 1 5, then she stayed I had been bra...11ded . at hor.i.e to help with the work. Terpe had al ways had to work hard a t hor::e. At 6 she was cooking and sewing dia-oers for her little brothers on t he treddle se·wing machine . At the a ge - of 11 she c ooked her f:i.rst Thanksgiving dinner - turkey, pies, everything. For entertainnent Terpe liked nothing be tter than dancing . She enjoyed bath the cererr.onial dances of the Ut es and t he social dc.nces of the S-oanish 11 and the Anglos. Hhen we had a dance, we di dn 1 t quit at midnight, i t-lasted all nigh:t. 11 When Terpe married Joe Valdez, she- had no idea she would get to raise 20 chi ldr en, 7 of her OiID and 13 nei ces , nephews and gra_.,.1dshildren. If it was needed, there was always roon for one ~ore. The whole grou~ worked the gardens and shelled peas and snapped beans and cooked and canned, It took a l ot of wor k to pr ovi de for s o many for so long, but Terpe says, 111.-le always had enough ." When Terpe ' s fathe r, J ohn Taylor, died in 1935, he lacked 2 weeks of being 100 years old. How he car::e to be a respected participant in the . affairs of the Southern Ute Tribe is a f ascinating story. John Taylor was a black nan , born a slave in Louisvi lle , Kentucky, in 1835. He was sold in the slave l:lar~:et to a Kent ucky Plantation m•mer a..'1.d worked there for many year s . At the outbreak of t he Ci vil War, John, who was 26 ran a,:,ay to j oin t he Yankee Armyc Four ye ars of -horror followed. John was assigned · tice. How only an occasional soft sniff was heard. �to an artillary Conpany to load the car.non. There were times when,the dead and the _suffe ring injured wer.e_ all around, tices when the Johnny Rebs were close, tiIJes when the-Yanks would run in fear, but nc;,t John. "I didn 't run, '1 e told his children, "I didn't want. to be a slave any .!:.ore." When the ,-m~ He lived· in Raton. for a while, then ~cved to -Tierra A.carilla where he married a Spanish girl and had -several· children. · ~as· over, J ohn traveled west. A tragic epide~ic of s~all pox kiiled a~l his fa~.ily . Hoving en west, Johr. lived among the lfavajo for a while before coming into Colorado. Re quickly learned to speak Ute. Since he could already speak i'l'avajo, Spanish, Apache, English, French· and Italian, John ·Taylor soon proved to baa valuable translator for the Southern Utes. In 1895 John and Kitty Cloud decided to get married. John was 40 years older than Kitty and her faci.ly thought it was inaddness for her to r:iarry such an old can. Age; however, is a relative thing. · John and Kitty were narried for 40 years, and had 15 chilcren, the last of whom was born when John was 81 years old. He told his children =any stories of his experiences, sor.:e of which Ter pe ·re::e!:".bers. 11 He would ofte!"l s1~ with a faraway look in his eyes, singing · 11 Harching Through Georgia" or other songsof the war. So:metil:!l.es he 1 d cry when he'd tell us. of the death and horror of the war. And always he'd say he didn •·t ever want none of us to have · to fight in a war. 11 · Today Terpe is approaching 74 years of age. She looks and feels like n much younger person. A.~ything she could ever do, she can do today. She is .just as able and willing to offer help, counsel and encourag~ment today as she was 40 years ago • · . . . · Terpe misses the wagon days and especially the train. "I like cars, but the wagon days were better. Life was calmer and ~ore fun then. A,.?J.yone going to . Durango rode . the t _rain and once there you coul_d ride the street cars froc one end of Hain .to the other for . 10<t. 11 A beautifully carved Love Calling Flute hangs on. Terpe's wall. It was ....,de b"lr ?"e--ber ~w CO"'O ... -~n,--l °'"' - ....... _ - .!.1..1.., _ ..., \:, "'d 5.1,.J. .--'! Tl.~ l·'.c1·· c.·av•~ -" ~J· ·i•'-,e ~ •' ;;,;;; C-1. v.L ,:;:a.~ ..L. v t ,/ .::> -J.on.:.· r.:, ..\!C...~ young men of the Utes carved their own flutes. On .the long su~.er eveni~gs they would sit a~ong the trees or on a hill above the ho~e cf the girl they loved and call to her with the haunting, conyelling songs of the love flute. Terpe says the sound o:f the Love Calling Flute carried a long way on the still air of the evening. "They were the saddest songs I ever heard. :-r.nen I was a little girl they always made ne cry. 11 The songs are gone fro::! the hil1.s·, but the tren:ory of the:1 a."1.d of the old way of life lingers on with Terpe and others of her generation. ,1 • - -.:. e'J '-- "-4 .1..;I d, ,:,.J., I., e I, ~•• by Shelby Smith I have often wondered wha.t made so many Senior Citizens beautiful people. I found the answer 1n a statement I heard over TV the other day, · This statement is very apropos for the Sen~or Citizen Newsletter, I think. Beautit'ul at 20 -- It's nature .Beautiful at 40 -- It's with work and care Beautiful at ,50 and over -- It•s the love, wisdom and spirit showin'! -- ) "Say, ·•cheese. • " through. �--. ' A T T E N T I O N ~~~--S E N I C R --~----~CI T I ZE NS ~--------ARK Ir.TVITED 'fO THE Governor I s r e gic;.1 9 co:-i:f er ence o!'l Agin·g for Archuleta - Dolores - La Plata - Hontezur1a and San Juan Counties May. 2, 1 974- 9: 0Q a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Pino Nuche CoID!Ilunity Center Ignacio, Colorado .To make their needs knovm and . presented to .the Governor of the State of Colorado· Trans·p orta tion Can Be Provided · Luncheon ?rovid.ed , \ ' We - hope to see many, many of you at the conference_ on Aging. very inport~t that you c.6me and make your needs known. It is Pl~ase check the appropriate square and return to: Senior Opportunity Service Box 324 Ignacio, Colorado 81137 I will attend the Conference (Sign Here ________________ I will furnish my o,m transportation (Initial_ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ __ I will need transportation - my address is_______ _______ _ - - - - - - - - - - - ~·Phone No. ______~Initial._ __________ I will not attend - I would like to express these comments: _ _ _ _ __ Signed._ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Co-Sponsored By: State of Colorado - Colorado Denart~ent of Social Services Division of Services for the Aging ... � 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: April 1974 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. 1974-04 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ignacio Senior Center