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Blue Turquoise, White Shell
By Virginia Nosky
A Harvard educated doctor and a Navajo lawyer struggle with a relationship, not knowing they have a common ancestor.
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Patrician Boston doctor Cabot W.W.Chase has made a bargain with his grandaughter Lily. He will pay her expenses through Harvard Medical School if at the end of her studies she will spend a year on the Navajo Reservation Indian Hospital where he had been a doctor following WWII. She is reluctant, suspecting her grandfather has emotional ties to the Navajo, but agrees. Slowly she acclimates herself, coming to admire the people and her surroundings. Lily has taken her middle name, Cabot. She meets a young Navajo lawyer, Nicholas Nakai, who is running for the newly mandated US Congressional district. She is drawn to him but finds it difficult to picture herself with a Native American. As their relationship deepens, Nicholas' tribal elders become alarmed at his liaison with the white doctor. They tell her she must leave the reservation. Broken-hearted, she returns to Massachusetts. But she returns. Woven into the main story is the tale of Daago, a Navajo headman's daughter and how she is won in a poker game by Captain Nathaniel Cabot, medical officer of the Army of the West in 1862, and how she kills him to escape, only later to bear his child, Kaab't. This son is a distant uncle of Cabot's and Nicholas' great, great, great grandfather.
