Pop Chalee

The Wild World of Blue Flower

Pop Chalee at work, 1950s, Photo by Jack Hopkins, Jr., Merina Lujan Hopkins (Pop Chalee) Collection, IAIA Archives. Courtesy of the Hopkins Family and IAIA Archives. IAIAMS026/01.02-0001 (Colourized by Angela Rose Design)

Pop Chalee was born Merina Lujan in 1906 in Castle Gate, Utah. Her grandmother named her after "blue flower" in Tiwa, the Taos languag…