Runs Like The Wind Stops in Her Tracks: Mimbres Children Learn About Trustworthiness

By Carilyn Alarid and Marilyn Markel

Based on extensive research as well as on a career working for cultural institutions, historian Thomas E. Chávez has created a historical novel about the American southwest, specifically in New Mexico and Arizona, a place where Europeans settled in 1598. Here is a historical narrative about one of those families. The story begins and ends with Edward Romero who became the United States ambassador to Spain and is prototypical of the thousands of young men and some women who sought a new life in the new world and became American. These were people taking risks, accepting fate, succeeding, failing, loving, and hating. The Romero story is an American odyssey shared by any number of families in a region and whose cultural legacy is part of the heritage of the United States that only recently has come to the fore in the United States’ national consciousness. This story delineates a part of the heritage of every American and enriches an already beautiful history. A bibliographic essay, maps, and genealogical charts will assist the reader to differentiate places, names, and generations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sunstone Press
• Release date: Aug 21, 2020
• ISBN: 9781611396072

Carilyn Alarid

Twin sisters, Carilyn Alarid and Marilyn Markel are dedicated to helping children learn to have respect for the individual and cultural differences of all people. Carilyn is a docent at Coronado Historic Site in Bernalillo, New Mexico. Marilyn is the education coordinator for the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site in Mimbres, New Mexico, where she gives tours to school children and adults, focusing on the increasing need to preserve and protect southwest New Mexico’s cultural heritage. Born and raised in New Mexico, these sisters have the utmost respect for native cultures both past and present. Their previous books in the “Mimbres Children” series, Old Grandfather Teaches a Lesson, Talks All Day Has the Courage to Speak, Hits With His Fist Gives a Helping Hand, and Runs Like The Wind Stops in Her Tracks were also published by Sunstone Press.

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Runs Like The Wind Stops in Her Tracks

Mimbres Children Learn About Trustworthiness

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Written and Illustrated

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Carilyn Alarid and Marilyn Markel

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to the Mimbres People who lived in the American Southwest long ago, to the Native Americans who have the wisdom to use the talking stick and to those who teach children the power of working together.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Bert, Harold and the family for all their love and support. A special thanks to Carolyn O’Bagy Davis and Burt Cosgrove Jr. for allowing us to use some of the Mimbres pottery drawings of Harriet Hattie Cosgrove.

Preface

This is the fourth in a series of books written to help children learn the importance of developing good character traits. The children in this story struggle with trusting in themselves and others, and the adults learn to trust in their children.

The authors hope to share a means of teaching ethical behavior with the school and family community that will impact children of all ages through the enjoyable, pictorial narrative in the Mimbres Children series. Other books introduce themes of respect, citizenship, fairness, caring, and responsibility.

—Carilyn Alarid and Marilyn Markel

Introduction

The purpose of this book is twofold. The intention of the authors is to demonstrate the use of a talking stick from Native American tradition to children as a means to facilitate communication through literature. It becomes a hands-on activity when the use of a talking stick is practiced following the reading of the story. Children often learn best by doing. Through making and using a talking stick, the lesson presented in the story is reinforced by the activity. Using authentic illustrations found on prehistoric pottery, this book is also meant to expose children to the wonderful artwork and culture of the Native American Mimbres People.

The Illustrations

The illustrations in this book were based on images found on Mimbres pottery in museum collections and drawings by Harriet Cosgrove, who excavated in the Mimbres area in the 1920s. The pictures painted on Mimbres pottery are viewed as unique and very descriptive. There are no known historical people who are direct descendants of the Mimbres. There is, however, a significant amount of archaeological data and ethno-historical