Spinning and carding, keeping Navajo arts alive

Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) | July 7, 2004| | Copyright

Norrell, Brenda
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
07-07-2004
TSAILE, Ariz. - Beneath the shady arbor on the campus of Dine College,
Sarah Natani demonstrated the art of carding and spinning wool, while her
sister Irma Henderson instructed students in the art of drop spinning wool
from her own herd of Churro sheep over the mountain at Two Grey Hills, N.M.

Henderson, whose day job is as a psychiatric health worker for Indian
Health Service, has found the benefits of spinning.

"It is relaxing, I get really stressed by my work, and so I come home and
spin for hours. It is really stress releasing. It ...

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