Talk:Peter La Farge

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[edit] Indian background of Peter La Farge

The Hopi Reservation is not anywhere near Santa Fe, NM. It is in northern Arizona. There is a village of Tewa descendants there, who fled the Spanish during the 17th century, from the area around Santa Fe. So, was La Farge raised be Tewas near Santa Fe, or those on the Hopi Reservation? Wschart 21:38, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

• Good point. I'd guess that much of this early history of La Farge was promulgated as his folk career bloomed in Greenwich Village, and may be anecdotal insofar as details are concerned. All sources that I have seen in the popular press (and internet) say that he was a "Nargasset" (as opposed to a Narragansett); I have only seen the word "Nargasset" in connection with La Farge's name. Likewise the whole Tewa thing seems a bit hazy, and uncomfortably evokes Bob Dylan's cooked-up connection to New Mexico, where he claimed to have lived in "Gallup" learning "cowboy and Indian" songs when all the while he had been with his parents in Hibbing, Minnesota. Perhaps the experts on Peter La Farge's adoptive father can shed mnore light in this. It also seems very odd that a (probable) northeastern tribal member would arbitrarily be raised by otherwise unrelated people across the continent, with a cultural (language, religion, customs, way of life) gap as wide as that between the Tewa and European society.Jerry picker 02:20, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
• Peter's adoptive father, Oliver La Farge, was originally a New Yorker, but made his permanent home in Santa Fe from 1937 until his death in 1963, and had some earlier connections to Santa Fe. It is possible that Oliver adopted young Peter while still in the northeast, which might explain the "Nargasset" reference, and moved the boy to Santa Fe with him. Once in Santa Fe, Oliver, who had strong literary, historical, and political ties to Native Americans, might easily have taken up with Tewa people in the area (not on the Hopi reservation), and made arrangements for Peter to learn Tewa culture as an "adopted" member of the tribe, rather than as a legally adopted son in a Tewa family. More research will be necessary, but this is quite plausible.Jerry picker 17:20, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Buffy Sainte-Marie, who knew La Farge, told me that Narragansett is correct. Badagnani 01:24, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

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