The indispensable traveler's guide to the history of places throughout the Land of Enchantment.

This memoir of growing up in El Paso in the 1940s and 1950s creates an entire city: the way a barrio awakens in the early morning sun, the thrill of a rare desert snow, the taste of fruit-flavored raspadas on summer afternoons, the "money boys" who beg from commuters passing back and forth to Juárez, and the mischief of children entertaining themselves in the streets.

Benjamin delineates the basic continuity in the history of Chiapas from the 1890s to 1995.

A posthumous novel by the pioneering Chicano fiction writer--a tragi-comic tale revealing a new side to Arturo Islas's talent.

Poetry, art, and criticism by major Chicana writers and artists.

A thrilling account of the bloody rebellion forged by the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish invaders.

A captivity narrative that provides eyewitness accounts of the twilight years of Kiowa freedom on the Plains, and early reservation life.

A readable and succinct account of how Indians fared under their Spanish Franciscan colonizers.

Explores the connections of place, language, wisdom, and morality among the Western Apache.

A beautifully written history of the development of San Antonio in colonial Texas.

A rich portrait of a woman's life in the American West of the early 1900s--a love story that reads like a novel.

Debunks the great tourist myth, and explains how the Santa Fe architectural and design style, so popular with millions of visitors today, was consciously created by Anglos in the early 20th century.

This lively account of a pioneering anthropologist's experiences with a Navajo family grew out of the author's desire to learn to weave as a way of participating in Navajo culture rather than observing it from the outside.

This book is a significant contribution to Navajo studies providing the earliest eighteenth-century eyewitness account of the Navajo in New Mexico.

Using innovative methodologies and theories to rethink American Indian history, this book challenges previous scholarship about Native Americans and their communities.

A book of Mayan myths that inhabit the landscape and language, the ruined citadels and living towns of Mayan people in the highlands of Guatemala.

A personal view not only of a people whose life as savannah foragers is unique and fast-disappearing, but of the thoughts and actions of a young woman researcher during the hardest, and most exciting time in her life.

Strickland argues that Indians can better sustain their worldview through law and culture, by remaining true to their heritage, tradition, and spirituality.

This lively memoir describes trading post life from 1938 to 1950 and the many changes experienced by Navajos and all Americans during and after World War II.

Inspired by Chief Joseph's statement that "the Earth and myself are of one mind," Dunsmore studies the works of major Native writers and their connection with the natural world.

A history of the national parks in Alaska and how they protect the natural ecosystems while allowing certain populations to use the parks to maintain their cultural traditions.

A collection of twelve short stories presented from the perspective of a young boy, in which the author narrates his childhood experiences growing up in a family of Mexican migrant farmworkers.

A journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde balancing observations of past architectural and cultural achievements with suggestions and recommendations for design practices in the present.

The first substantial study of a Mexican Indian society that more than any other has preserved much of its ancient way of life and religion.

Explores issues of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in nine recent novels by U.S. Latina/o writers.

This desert mystery novel, set in Palm Springs in 1983, is from one of Chicana literature's finest writers.

A revisionist account of the Tejano experience in south Texas from its Spanish colonial roots to 1900.

Originally published in 1910, this stirring depiction of shtetl life in Argentina is once again available in paperback.

An account of Virgil Wyaco's life in both the traditional Zuni and modern Anglo worlds. His varied career demonstrates the heartbreaks and rewards of a Native American life bridging two cultures in the twentieth century.

The story of the house that Mabel built, and the artists, dreamers, hippies, and freaks that followed.

South American women authors look at the female experience.

This remarkable work of anthropology breaks new ground in the study of Latin American female shamanism.

Meditations on growing garlic and on the farming way of life.

This cultural history of food in Mexico traces the influence of gender, race, and class on food preferences from Aztec times to the present.

An engaging study of stereotypes and archetypes of Native Americans in fiction and art.

Through The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, translated from official and private correspondence, we are drawn back, through conflict and compromise, into New Mexico’s formative era in this boxed set.

Set along the Southwestern border, these stories explore growing up Hispanic and weaving together three distinct worlds--Mexico, the United States, and childhood.

A lively account of the role of the forensic anthropologist in the Office of the Medical Investigator--recovering bodies, establishing identities, and solving the puzzles of death.

A collection of traditional New Mexican Hispanic folktales gathered from the oral tradition in 1931 and translated by famed storyteller Joe Hayes.

An overview of the streams of Southern New Mexico that support trout, the natural history of the streams, and the habitats of the trout that live there.

An intimate study of a religious festival in contemporary Mexico that skillfully weaves together ethnography, history, and folklore.

An intriguing study of the popular culture of early twentieth century Mexico as seen through the penny broadsheets--bullfighters, bandits, politics, and the revolution.

Honor was everywhere in Colonial Latin America, and to understand the many ways it had an impact on people's lives is to understand the organizing principles of a society.

For the first time, students and scholars interested in the Navajo language have a book that presents the verb system in a step-by-step and thorough fashion. By providing easy-to-follow descriptions with abundant examples, this book unravels the complexity of Navajo and reveals its expressiveness.

Lays out the contemporary legal and administrative status of these ancient irrigation institutions, suggesting public policy measures to keep the system alive.

The humorous and moving story of three generations of a Jewish family in Argentina.

An anthology of diverse approaches and issues in the environmental history of the American West.

An ethnohistorical history of the Spanish Borderlands written by specialists in the history of each region.

Provides the first broad survey of Native American contributions during the war, examining how military service led to hightened expectations for changes in federal Indian policy and their standard of living.

An anthology of historical articles on European immigration to the American West in the 19th century.