Photo courtesyof Evelyn Edd

“I never had new clothes. Everything was from Goodwill.”

Evelyn Edd interviewed by Santana Edd
Evelyn Edd interviewed by Santana Edd

Evelyn Edd grew up on the Navajo Reservation at Blackhouse Mesa. In this conversation with her granddaughter Santana, Evelyn looks back on a childhood with little money or material possessions.

“I slept on sheepskin and I never had a bed,” she says in this interview. She remembers walking more than a mile to the bus stop in rain and snow, and being teased at school for her hand-me-down clothes.

Evelyn Edd and Santana Edd are enrolled with the Navajo Nation.

Pictured above, Evelyn Edd at 13 years old, wearing clothes she made herself.