![]() ![]() It was at this time that she became increasingly aware of the declining number of fluent Comanche speakers, noting that the majority of speakers were elders who were passing away faster than new speakers were being born. No longer working and with free time on her hands, she decided to volunteer as a docent at a museum in Santa Fe. She recalls this as a time when the area had no paved roads and travel was made by wagons.Īfter working in Arizona, then California, she moved back to Oklahoma to work in Indian and public hospitals in the towns of Anadarko and Lawton before residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she served as director of nurses at the Santa Fe Indian Hospital until she retired in 1986. From there, in the 1940s, she was sent to Kearns Canyon, Arizona to work with members of the Hopi and Navajo tribes. Geneva studied nursing at Haskell Institute (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) in Lawrence, Kansas, before attending classes at St. ![]() Neither of them spoke English and Geneva therefore grew up speaking Numunu (Comanche) as her first language. She was born in 1926 in the town of Apache, Oklahoma to Esther Tooahimpah Tate and Max Woomavoyah and was raised by her grandparents, Frank and Mookemah. Contact the NALC at 40 or As:, , Geneva Navarro Collection, Sam Noble Museum Department of Native American Languages.Ĭollection Scope and Contents: Geneva Woomavoyah Navarro is a full-blood Comanche. The initial deposit was made in 2004, with two subsequent deposits occurring in 20.Īccess Restrictions: The materials are open for research. Languages Represented: The collection materials are in Comanche and English.Ībstract: The Geneva Navarro Collection consists of rare books and more than 41 hours of original video footage useful to learning the Comanche language.Īcquisition Information: These records came to the Sam Noble Museum from Geneva Navarro over the course of ten years. ![]()
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