Susan Whittington wrote the following about Margaret Tafoya: The beginning has a response to a comment in The New York Times obituary. Whittington is the artist's granddaugher who gave the eulogy at the funeral of Margaret Tafoya.

Doug Martin's description of my Grandmother's "brief fling with an Apache" was totally off the mark! In that day and time, she was never allowed what we today would term "a fling." She was engaged to the young Apache man and the traditional buckskin wedding dress was made for her by his relatives. She told me that she had to tell him she couldn't marry him because she didn't want to leave Santa Clara Pueblo and her relatives, all to whom she was very attached....