This fascinating rediscovery of Josephine Foard highlights her work at Laguna Pueblo beginning in 1899 and her efforts to improve and market pueblo pottery for the Lagunas' economic benefit.

"These stories catch fish. And all of them are hefty lunkers."--John Nichols, from the Foreword

For both visitors and natural history buffs, this book includes seventy-five examples of some of the most common and conspicuous wildflowers in the Rocky Mountains from southern Wyoming to New Mexico.

Cut-paper collage illustrations and engaging verse give young readers a new look at American Indian culture today.

Recent research on the intriguing Allen Site in southwestern Nebraska and the nearby Medicine Creek sites has revealed a wealth of new information on the land and animal use of the early inhabitants.

Well-known anthropologist Lamphere highlights the voices of three generations of Navajo women who are weaving their traditional beliefs with modern American culture to create a new blueprint for their lives and the next generations.

Conley has compiled a guide to historical and contemporary members of the Cherokee tribe and their roles in their clans and nations.

Stockel examines the brutal history of forced conversion and subjection of the Chiricahua Apaches by Spanish priests during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

These stories of real people who have immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico show how they have changed their new country and how they are changed by it.

Torrez studies the gritty role of hangings in frontier New Mexico.

Schullery's heartfelt reflections on his relationship to the wildness of Yellowstone Park.

Robert Conley's history of the Cherokees is the first to be endorsed by the Cherokee Nation and to be written by a Cherokee.

Iconic photographs and the stories of the men, women, and children who work California's farms and orchards to feed America.

A chronological overview of important art, sculpture, and architectural monuments of colonial Latin America within the economic and religious contexts of the era.

A sequel to Santana's acclaimed Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility, Ghosts of El Grullo follows Yolanda Sahagún as she struggles to find her place in her family and the world.

A discussion of the emergence of Hispano identity among the Spanish-speaking people of New Mexico during the 19th and 20th centuries.

A new look at Puebloan landscaping techniques and uses of plants and how they can influence modern architects in the Southwest.

Sagan charts the exploration of the soul on this home called planet earth.

Eckert illustrates how the relationship between ethnicity, migration, and ritual practice combined to create a complexly patterned material culture among residents of two fourteenth-century Pueblo villages.

The myth and ceremony of Maya beliefs have been sustained for over five hundred years in spite of massacres, persecution, and discrimination.

Gilb has created more than a literary anthology--this is a mosaic of the cultural and historical stories of Texas Mexican writers, musicians, and artists.

Ji-Stu the Rabbit thinks he's very clever but discovers he has outsmarted himself.

The Black Panther Party has responded to the needs of various communities underserved by government agencies by providing social services ranging from food and educational programs to medical care.

Stunning photographs document "Buffalo Bill" Cody's early years as he led a troupe of traveling actors performing in frontier melodramas across the country.

Folk music fans and teachers will welcome this new edition of a New Mexico classic, now in a useful spiral binding.

To read this book is to hear her own quiet voice, describing pueblo ceremonials, detailing the difficulties of life during the war years, and above all recording her own spiritual relationship with the New Mexico landscape.

Debunks the romanticist stereotyping of Navajo weavers and Reservation traders and situates weavers within the economic history of the southwest.

Sonny Baca investigates the brutal murder of his cousin, whose husband is a candidate for mayor of Albuquerque.

Exciting words by talented poets who have made Albuquerque's poetry slams so successful.

The author examines class formation and social and labor issues in this study of the Hidalgo mining district in northern Mexico from the 1890s to the 1920s.

Fagette's book is a thorough, compelling history of American archaeology in its most critical decade, the 1930s.

Tobias explores the cultural and political influence of the New Mexico Jewish community since the Second World War.

Loeffler has recorded interviews with representatives of the diverse cultures of New Mexico, revealing the cultural mosaic of the people along the Continental Divide.

Modern Navajo tribal government originated in 1923 solely to approve oil leases. This ethnohistory tracks the major changes brought to the Navajo people in the six decades following the discovery and exploitation of oil and gas on tribal lands.

A reprint of John Doyle Lee's 1891 autobiography, this edition includes the story of Brigham Young, early Mormonism, and the Mountain Meadows massacre.

"Every patient should read it, if only to be made aware that they are not alone with their thoughts. Every spouse of a patient should read it. . . . Every medical student and physician should read it to learn that the biology of the disease is really just a small part of the illness."--John Saiki, M.D., Medical Oncology, University of New Mexico

In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, Jordan traces the written accounts of Mvskoke religion from the eighteenth century to the present in order to historically contextualize Lewis’s story and knowledge. This book is a collaboration between anthropologist and medicine man that provides a rare glimpse of a living religious tradition and its origins.

This is an updated edition of the story of the gang scene in East L.A. and Father Gregory Boyle's innovative ministry and economic development efforts in the area.

Mora's insights on bilingualism, education, women, and family are sometimes barbed and always exact.

These essays by noted scholars place Latin America's Jews squarely within the context of both Latin American and ethnic studies, a significant departure from traditional approaches that have treated Latin American Jewry as a subset of Jewish Studies.

Murder jeopardizes tourist dollars during the Albuquerque fall balloon extravaganza in this exciting Sonny Baca mystery.

This fast-paced mystery expands the ChupaCabra folklore into a metaphor that deals with the new powers inherent in science.

Baumler and Cooper collaborate to tell the human story of Montana's first federal penal facility.

Through fascinating photographs and text Hanging with Bats introduces young readers to these beneficial but often vilified creatures.

The many contributions of this early expert on Pueblo Indian anthropology and art are highlighted by two of his descendants.

Dodson examines the history of traditional religious practices in the Oriente region of contemporary Cuba.

"Powell seeks not merely to trace the origins of what he calls Hispanophobia but to analyze its impact on American education, textbooks, religion, and especially foreign policy."—Journal of American History

Including over 800 color photos, this authoritative guide is the first of its kind for the Middle Rio Grande Bosque of New Mexico.

Heartfelt photographs--dramatic, tranquil, and vivid by turn--portray the wild beauty of southwest New Mexico's Gila River.

Salmon tells the varied story of this unique, undammed, Southwestern river--in the past, the present, and, possibly, the future.