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This beautiful album deciphers the mystique of Santa Fe, a city where the heritage of Spain and Old Mexico mingled with the powerful cultures of Native American peoples and the frontier ways of settlers pushing westward.... In an informal, profusely illustrated text, full of lore on early Pueblo culture and Spanish colonial trading, Baca charts a visionary tradition extending from Mimbres pottery to the paintings of R. C. Gorman, Emmi Whitehor...

In Brave Are My People Waters sets out to write a sequential book of biographies of Native Americans whose lives have enriched the history of America and ends by illuminating the outlines of a forgotten history.... Frank Waters's eloquent book is a much needed distillation of the dramatic essentials of Native American history... destined to become a classic.

This is a very personal book. It is the outcome of the author's own search for truth. In order to let the reader participate in his quest, Peter Grieder tried to put the photographs and texts together in such a way that an inner context, a kind of thread on which the beads are strung, is presented. He guides the contemplative reader and observer from the outside to the inside on a journey through Ladakh, Zanskar, Bhutan and Tibet. The journey ...

It seems that we are living in a time of prophesies, a time of definitions and decisions. We are the generations with the responsibility and option to choose the path of life with a future for our children or the life and the path that defies the laws of regeneration". (Oren Lyons)"These eloquent speeches by 20 native leaders from throughout the world define the precipice upon which the world's indigenous people are teetering. Each speaker add...

What was the real significance of "war paint", of the rituals of shamans, of the mysterious communion with animals, plants, mountains, and wild waters? Looking beneath the surface of tribal communication, this book is the first to focus on the myriad forms of traditional expression that were the outward manifestation of a sophisticated ethical and spiritual ecology that existed for millennia before contact with European culture. Cooper describ...

Renowned wilderness writer T H Watkins offers a portrait of remote areas of the fragile and beautiful canyonlands of Utah. He gives us a panorama of majestic mountains, buttes, and mesas, forest views of pinon an djuniper and tall mountains sage, and intimate glimpses of rivers weaving through red slits in the earth. Through Watkins's exquisite visual and literary images shines his deep commitment to saving treasured wildlands that were old wh...

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Simply and without bitterness, Shuguba tells his story: he speaks of the Chinese invasion and Tibetan military resistance against overwhelming odds, the bombings, executions, and massacres, the deaths of his wife and daughter, and his own "trial" and nineteen-year imprisonment. Shuguba, who was the last surviving high official from the 14th Dalai Lama's original government, reveals information that was concealed from the outside world for over...

Highly regarded by Native Americans as well as Anglo and Hispanic historians, Sando's work covers the origins and development of Pueblo civilization, the Spanish conquest, the Pueblo Revolt, the influence of the United States government in Pueblo history, and the issues of land and water rights so vital to the survival of the Pueblo people today.

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This book offers fascinating perspectives on the life, traditions, and current affairs of the peoples of the Iroquois Confederacy. Author Doug George-Kanentiio is a Mohawk now living in Oneida Territory who is actively involved in issues affecting the Confederacy and has been writing about developments in 'Indian Country' for the past decade. In his book he offers a portrait of the Iroquois that touches on a multitude of topics, beginning with...

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In his new book, Joe S. Sando weaves a tapestry of individual lives against a backdrop of history -- telling the stories of political leaders, educators, and artists who took part in the events and movements that have shaped Pueblo Indian life from the time of the Pueblo Revolt to the present day.

Folk hero Elfego Baca (1865-1945) is best remembered for his single-handed standoff against an estimated 80 Texas cowboys who fired a reported 4, 000 shots at him without effect. In this informative and entertaining book, Howard Bryan examines the facts and legends surrounding Baca's long and astonishing career as a gunfighter and ruffian, lawyer, sheriff, mayor, district attorney, and a perennial candidate for political office. This remarkabl...

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Born and raised at Santa Clara Pueblo, Pablita Verlarde has achieved national and international recognition as one of the greatest American Indian artist. For each traditional story retold in this book, she has created natural earthtone paintings in the unique style that has become her hallmark. This book will delight old and young alike.

Ancient, mysterious, magical New Mexico is also elusive, retiring from the camera's eye. Yet here is a portrait gallery that shows New Mexico in details seldom seen before. Here are the pueblos, the Spanish missions, the dances, prayers and festivals, the painters and writers and potters at work. Here are the towering rock formations, the gorges of the Rio Grande, the fields of flowers and the bone-white gypsum sands. Rain showers storm across...

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Many have felt the New Mexico mystique, but none more so than Marcia Keegan, who is unexcelled in capturing on colour film the New Mexico imagery that produces in the beholder a feeling of spiritual enchantment. She has wandered the length and breadth of the state, photographing with artistry and sensitivity the land and the people she loves. Over the years her colour photographs of New Mexico have won her wide acclaim and have been published ...

Filled with flavouring secrets that can make you everybody's favourite home cook, this book shows how to add flair and variety to daily meals and dress up basic dishes for sensational party and holiday dinners. The authors present an inspired selection of 200 fast, simple, whip-up or chop-together concoctions that deliver flavour with magical blends of condiments, spicy foods, savoury herbs, and fresh fruits and vegetables. With additions for ...