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Summary Of No Turning Back By Polingaysi
Polingaysi Qoyawayma is a great Hopi leader. Polingaysi is dealing with a straggle to live between two worlds, her Hopi culture and the Christian culture. Polingaysi is an author of two books called "No Turning Back" and "The Sun Girl". The book "No Turning Back” is an autobiography of her and how it was like living in Old Oraibi. The book "The Sun Girl" is an old folk tale about a young girl wanting to know what is outside of her village. Polingaysi was told this story when she was a little girl.
Polingaysi is teacher at a Hopi school in Old Oraibi, Third Mesa. She had taught her students to learn by learn the own Hopi culture and language to develop a different method of instruction for Hopi school children that she was teaching. Polingaysi
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