I found this photo when I was researching the one-man show I wrote for Rudy Ramos. I love vintage photographs!
I found this picture of Taazslath, one of Geronimo’s wives with her child, Chiricahua, taken at Fort Bowie in 1886, courtesy of Pinterest’s archives. Thanks, Pinterest. I’ve seen this skirt material on other Native American women. In his show, Rudy mentions the Apache women shopping in the trading post. Could it be that the material was really curtain material and no one told them? Or, maybe they knew and the bolder print suited them better. Myself, I like it!
In Rudy’s one-man show, Geronimo, Life on the Reservation, he mentions how exposure to the trading posts has changed the Apache women:
“…When the Indian scouts have their payday their women dress up and head to the trading post to shop. It’s a big deal. They go crazy in there. Things that are normal to the soldiers and settlers are luxuries to us.
Our women have always worked hard but they are working even harder now that they get to spend their pay at the trading post. They have gotten used to having the same things the white women have. I don’t know if they could ever do without them now. It makes me sad because every time our women go to the trading post they come back a little less Apache and more like a white woman. I can’t blame them. I see the light in their eyes when they get something new – something they have never even seen before…”
Geronimo, Life on the Reservation
Starring Rudy Ramos
Directed by Steve Railsback
Written by Janelle Meraz Hooper
Rudy’s schedule:
April 6 & 7- Santa Monica, CA Playhouse
April 19- Roxy Theatre, Muskogee, OK. The next night, at the same theatre, Rudy will be inducted into the Oklahoma Film Hall of Fame.
In August, for 2 shows, Rudy will be at the Western Legends Roundup in Kanab, UT. Dates to be announced.
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Many thanks, Janelle