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- Title
Elle Meets the President: Weaving Navajo Culture and Commerce in the Southwestern Tourist Industry.
- Authors
Moore, Laura Jane
- Abstract
During the spring of 1903, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt included a two-hour stop in Albuquerque while on a speaking tour through the western territories. The Commercial Club of Albuquerque chose a Navajo woman, called Elle of Ganado, to weave a gift for the President-- a textile rendition of his honorary Commercial Club membership card. Club members provided the design, which Elle wove quickly in hand-spun red, white, and blue yarn. During his tour of Alburquerque, Roosevelt visited the Commercial Club, where he received Elle's blanket, and he stopped by the Alvarado Hotel's Indian Building, where he met the weaver herself. An Albuquerque newspaper reported that upon meeting the weaver, the President gave her a hearty shake and told her how much he appreciated her work. The little speech was interpreted and pleased the Indian woman beyond expression. Elle and the President's meeting suggests ways in which race and gender, regional and national politics, culture and commerce interacted and were inextricably linked as the twentieth century began.
- Subjects
PRESIDENTS of the United States; NAVAJO women; CULTURE; SPEECH; CLUBS; NAVAJO blankets; NATIVE American women artisans
- Publication
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2001, Vol 22, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
0160-9009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3347066