Betty Jean Hopkins (1926 - 1995) Pop Pina - Red Flower

Pop Pina was the daughter of Pop Chalee of Taos Pueblo. Her English name was Betty Jean Hopkins.  She lived with her parents at Taos Pueblo until her father, who was proficient with metal working, was hired to work at the secretive Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in 1943.  

Pop Pina was enrolled in the Santa Fe Indian School in 1935 at age 9, but when her dad was hired as a teacher, she had to leave because children of teachers were not allowed to attend.  She then was transferred to public school.  In the early 1940s she was enrolled at Loretto Academy in Santa Fe in the hopes of her mom that that would settle down the mischievous child.  She then attended school at Los Alamos during the two years her family lived there.

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