Albert Yava (1888–1980)
Author of Big Falling Snow: A Tewa-Hopi Indian's Life and Times and the History and Traditions of His People
About the Author
Image credit: September 1945. War Relocation Authority, Department of the Interior. Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru, 1923–2016. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/539892. Image caption: Poston, Arizona. Mr. Albert Yava, another newcomer to Poston, is an artist and linguist. He speaks English and the tribal languages of the Tewas, Hopis, and Navahos. Mr. Yava is a painter by trade and makes Kachian dolls. Although Poston, Arizona is soon to be closed to Japanese Americans, it has already seen the beginnings of a new group of residents, the American Indians. On September 1st, 16 families, a total of 78 people, came to Poston from the Hopi Reservation at Kings Canyon, Arizona. They moved into one of the blocks and seem to like it very much.
Works by Albert Yava
Associated Works
Field Mouse Goes to War/Tusan Homichi Tuwvota : A Bilingual Hopi Tale (1977) — Translator — 35 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Nuvayoiyava
Big Falling Snow
Eutawisa - Birthdate
- 1888
- Date of death
- 1980-02
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Chilocco Indian School
- Occupations
- house painter
interpreter
author - Short biography
- Born Nuvayoiyava (Big Falling Snow) in Tewa Village on First Mesa. Attended the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma and worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs Hopi Agency at Keams Canyon, Arizona as an interpreter and building painter. A member of the Tewa Stick/Spruce clan by birth, he was later inducted into the Hopi One Horn kiva society, and came to be regarded as a respected elder and an authority on both Tewa and Hopi ways.
- Nationality
- Hopi Nation
- Birthplace
- Hano, Arizona, USA
- Map Location
- USA
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