interview--Jane Kirkpatrick brings a novelized bio of a culture pioneer

Natalie Curtis was a real professional musician who went West in 1903 for her mental and physical health after a breakdown. There she discovered the incredible musicality of Native American songs, which were forbidden to be sung by the US Code of the Indian Affairs Department. Ms. Curtis defied their disdain of Indian culture and recorded the songs on an Edison cylinder machine, and approached her uncle's good friend, President Theodore Roosevelt, who supported her interest as an anthropologist!