The Christmas OrangePDF Link. The author explains why he has associated Christmas and oranges. When the author's father, a full-blood Kiowa, was taken as a small child in a wagon to see his first Christmas program at Rainy Mountain Church in Oklahoma, he had never seen a Christmas tree, and he had never seen an orange. When an orange was given to him, and he held it in his hands, he must have been filled with wonder, according to the author. His father became a teacher, and he and his wife taught at Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico, for a quarter of century. Every year, before the Christmas program, the author's father went to the produce markets in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and he always brought back oranges. No child at Jemez Day School ever went without a Christmas orange. | Native Peoples Magazine. Nov/Dec2003, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p43-44. 2p. | MasterFILE Complete (EBSCO) (Library Database)