Author name: Isabel Clara Ruehl

When Marlo Kiyite was 19 and pregnant with her second son, she and her husband, Fitz, moved in with her cousin in Gallup, New Mexico, trying to make ends meet. Her cousin was an artist, a well-known carver of pocket-­sized animals that the Zuni Pueblo call fetishes, and one day, she suggested ­Kiyite give it […]

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