New Mexico Historical Review Volume 78 Number 4 Article 4 10-1-2003 Art Crafted in the Red Man's Image: Hazel Pete, The Indian New Deal, and the Indian Arts and Crafts Program at Santa Fe Indian School, 1932–1935 Cary C. Collins Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmhr Recommended Citation Collins, Cary C.. "Art Crafted in the Red Man's Image: Hazel Pete, The Indian New Deal, and the Indian Arts and Crafts Program at Santa Fe Indian School, 1932–1935." New Mexico Historical Review 78, 4 (2003). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmhr/vol78/iss4/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in New Mexico Historical Review by an authorized editor of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Art Crafted in the Red Man's Image HAZEL PETE, THE INDIAN NEW DEAL, AND THE INDIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS PROGRAM AT SANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOL, 1932- 1935 Cary C. Collins ) I really didn't know much about Indians when I left the Northwest. We weren't allowed to be Indians. I couldn't talk my language, didn't know any Indian songs, never heard a drum. I didn't know that we were the ones that did the carvings and made the big baskets of cedar root. I didn't know I was supposed to be proud of that. I fOllnd out! This was a new deal. l n October 1932 eighteen-year-old Hazel Pete stood in the twilight out I side the deserted railroad depot in Lamy, New Mexico, eighteen miles south ofSanta Fe.