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Bessie comes from a long line of successful Navajo silversmiths.
I met her and her family outside Canyonlands National Park where
they sell their jewelry to visiting tourists. The Navajo learned
the craft from Spanish silversmiths along the Rio Grande in the
mid-1800's. For years they were content to make the jewelry for
their own adornment, until Anglo-Americans discovered their work
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