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Grace Chapella was born February 4, 1874, at the Tewa village of Hano at First Mesa on the Hopi Reservation.  This was just a decade after the end of the Civil War, and two years before Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.  It was also eight years before the Reservation was established as such.  She witnessed the first horseless carriage arrive on the Reservation and recalled how frightening it was.  In 1927, she became the first person from Hopi Pueblo to fly in an airplane, going from the Grand Canyon to Long Beach for a pottery demonstration.  Read more about Grace Chapella.