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The tales in this book echo many of the populartraditions of the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. They teach us aboutthe rich culture and origins of the first people of America. "Old ManFinds Echo Boy", "The Girl Who Married the Rainbow", and more. Elevenstories in all guaranteed to touch your heart and spirit alike. Overthirty illustrations make this a lavish and beautiful experience ofNative American values. ... Read more

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Great stories!
I enjoy Native American folklore and this was an easy read. Most of the stories are short enough to keep a child's interest and there is humor and cute illustrations. It is also a good introduction to the Pueblo Indians. This is a great book for young and old readers. ... Read more

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Edward P. Dozier was the first American Indian to establish a career as an academic anthropologist. In doing so, he faced a double paradox—academic and cultural. The notion of objectivity that governed academic anthropology at the time dictated that researchers be impartial outsiders. Scientific knowledge was considered unbiased, impersonal, and public. In contrast, Dozier’s Pueblo Indian culture regarded knowledge as privileged, personal, and gendered.Ceremonial knowledge was protected by secrecy and was never intended to be made public, either within or outside of the community. As an indigenous ethnologist and linguist, Dozier negotiated a careful balance between the conflicting values of a social scientist and a Pueblo Indian. Based on archival research, ethnographic fieldwork at Santa Clara Pueblo, and extensive interviews, this intellectual biography traces Dozier’s education from a Bureau of Indian Affairs day school through the University of New Mexico on federal reimbursable loans and graduate school on the GI Bill.Dozier was the first graduate of the new post–World War II doctoral program in anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1952.Beginning with his multicultural and linguistic heritage, the book interprets pivotal moments in his career, including the impact of Pueblo kinship on his indigenous research at Tewa Village (Hano); his rising academic standing and Indian advocacy at Northwestern University; his achievement of full academic status after he conducted non-indigenous fieldwork with the Kalinga in the Philippines; and his leadership in establishing American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. Norcini interprets Dozier’s career within the contexts of the history of American anthropology and Pueblo Indian culture. In the final analysis, Dozier is positioned as a transitional figure who helped transform the historical paradox of an American Indian anthropologist into the contemporary paradigm of indigenous scholarship in the academy. ... Read more

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Beginning about 1900, tourism greatly increased in the American Southwest, chiefly a response to the combined promotional efforts of the Santa Fe Railway and the Fred Harvey Company. Postcard images of Southwestern Native Americans in particular became a mainstay of a widespread advertising campaign to promote the region to potential travelers. Postcards also quickly became popular with visitors as collectibles and for expedient communications with friends and family back home. In New Mexico, hundreds of published images portrayed the beauty of the Pueblo villages, as well as views of economic and domestic activities, arts and crafts, and religious aspects of the various Pueblo communities in the northern part of the state. ... Read more

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This collection of American Indian legends was gathered by Gene Meany Hodge from authentic sources in the 1930s and centers around the sacred supernatural personages of the American Pueblo Indians called Kachinas (pronounced Kah-chee-nahs). Mrs. Hodge wrote: 'All in all the Kachinas are lovable and kindly supernaturals who bring rain and other blessings to the people.' The legends of the Kachinas are a unifying and cohesive force in the continuance of Native American social history. This book makes an ideal companion to Coyote Tales from the Indian Pueblos by Evelyn Dahl Reed, also published by Sunstone Press. ... Read more

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beautiful !
I am very grateful for the condition of this beautiful book !
Thank you for being such a great source ! ... Read more

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Beginning in the late nineteenth century, the pueblos of the Southwest frequently inspired Anglo-American visitors to express their sense of wonder and enchantment in biblical references. Frank Hamilton Cushing's first account of Zuni pueblo described a setting that looked like "The Pools of Palestine." Drawn to the Southwest, Mabel Dodge imagined "a garden of Eden, inhabited by an unfallen tribe of men and women." There she was attracted to Tony Luhan, a Taos Indian who looked "like a Biblical figure."

When historian Jerold Auerbach first saw Edward S. Curtis's early twentieth-century photograph Taos Water Girls, he realized that "here, indeed, was the biblical Rebecca, relocated to New Mexico from ancient Haran, where Abraham's faithful servant had journeyed to find a suitable wife for Isaac. Rebecca with her water pitcher is as familiar a biblical icon as Noah and his ark or Moses with the stone tablets. Curtis had recast her as the archetypal Pueblo maiden."

Explorers in Eden uncovers an intriguing array of diaries, letters, memoirs, photographs, paintings, postcards, advertisements, anthropological field studies, and scholarly monographs. They reveal how Anglo-Americans disenchanted with modern urban industrial society developed a deep and rich fascination with pueblo culture through their biblical associations. ... Read more

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Seeing Others Through Shaded Lenses
In "Explorers in Eden," Jerold S. Auerbach, professor of history at Wellesley College, provides an insightful and critical account of the complex relationships between "explorers"--anthropologists, artists, photographers, and entrepreneurs--and the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona from John Wesley Powell and Frank Hamilton Cushing at the end of the 19th century to the students of Franz Boas--Ruth Benedict, Ruth Bunzel, and Esther Schiff Goldfrank in the 1920s and 1930s.This followed by a chapter on the more recent feminist scholars who have found "inspirational models among their female predecessors, and grist for their gendered critique of American society" (p. 145).In an Epilogue Auerback places himself among the "explorers."This is an important and provocative book.While there are other explorers Auerbach might have considered, what he has chosen to do he does with wit and grace and, above all, a clearer sense of these encounters in a larger historical framework than any student of the Pueblos has attempted before. ... Read more

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Supberly written and very highly recommended.
Larry Little bird is a Pueblo Indian. In Hunting Sacred: Everything Listens, Littlebird offers the reader a personal legacy of story, song, and art from a rich Native American oral tradition. This remarkable book is organized in four parts, each symbolizing four days of hunting sacred. A mythic hunter, a young Pueblo Indian hunter, his elders, and a narrator all weave their thoughts and actions into a complete song to reveal that the act of hunting sacred is a way of giving life, of listening and learning, and a way to remember a complex heritage and generational tradition stretching back beyond recorded history. Hunting Sacred: Everything Listens is a superbly written and highly prized addition to personal and academic Native American history and cultural reference collections. ... Read more

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Great book on the Pueblo Villages of the Southwestern United States. 60 black and white illustrations / photographs of the pueblos - Taos, Hopi, Zuni, San Juan, Sandia, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Acoma, Nambe, Zia, Santa Clara, Cochiti, Picuris and other pueblos. Architecture, pottery, jewelry, turquoise, adobe buildings, desert life and other subjects. Includes list of feast days and celebrations and bibliography.Softcover. 102 pages. Measures 8 by 8 3/4 inches. Interesting book, nicely illustrated. ... Read more

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The inspiring story of Geronima Montoya, artist, educator, and San Juan Pueblo cultural leader, begins in northern New Mexico and culminates at the Smithsonian Art and Cultural Achievement Award ceremony in 1994.

Like many other Native American children of the 1920s, Montoya became a boarding student at the Santa Fe Indian School, where assimilation to American culture was a primary goal.

She discovered her love of painting while studying under Dorothy Dunn, who heavily influenced Pueblo Indian easel painting. Succeeding Dunn as the head of the controversial Studio, she later went on to obtain a college degree, create an adult education program fro the northern Pueblo villages, and found the first Native American crafts cooperative. Through this period of cultural and political change Montoya has been sustained by Pueblo and Catholic religious and ceremonial life.

Shutes and Mellick tell her story in her own words, gathered from 17 years of interviews and friendship. The book is enriched by period photographs of village and school life, letters between Montoya and Dunn, and photographs of Montoya's art. ... Read more

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With stunning visual appeal and broad historical sweep, Pueblos is a handsomely illustrated, fascinating account of the history and culture of ancient native America peoples who settled in the "four corners" area of the southwest--Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. ... Read more

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Sharing the art and culture of Native Americans of the Southwest is a very important activity. For centuries these inventive people, the original inhabitants of the arid southwestern part of the United States, have survived a beautiful but demanding environment. They have produced unique buildings and wonderful arts and crafts. This book offers over 40 pages of comprehensive activities centered around the contributions of these resourceful people. Children learn about the ''Land of the Pueblos'' through an exciting variety of games, puzzles, identification activities, vocabulary recognition, word searches, time lines, art activities, and more. Parents and teachers will find a wealth of ideas on ways of sharing the exciting facets of Southwestern pueblo history. ... Read more

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Abilene photographer Bill Wright worked among and studied the TiguaIndians of Ysleta, Texas, for more than six years, making his owndistinguished images and collecting documentary photographs of the tribefrom among the Tigua themselves and from sources across the United States. His research in their history, his interviews with Tigua leaders,tribal members, and his magnificent collection of photographs, rarehistorical pictures and his own incomparable contemporary images,combine to make a unique modern study of these, the oldest Texans. Included is an extensive bibliography of sources and a list of Tiguatribal officers and members. ... Read more

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This book is by a great writer who pursues his subject with vigor
In this particular book, Bill Wright introduces us to a little known group of people who have an interesting history.After reading this book, you will want to visit them in their West Texas setting.Bill is an accomplished historian who does his research thoroughly. Its apparent that he connects with these people; and, then shares their story in a very compelling manner.Bill is a gifted photographer with many credits to his name; a great story teller and a good human being.All of his books are worthy reading; we routinely give copies of them to new neighbors and friends. ... Read more

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Discusses the culture, history, and society of the Pueblos. ... Read more

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This collection represents a segment of the lives of the Navajo and Pueblo people of the American Southwest--two diverse groups who are an important part of American culture today. Each year thousands of visitors from all over the world attend their various ceremonial dances and events and many arrive with a knowledge and understanding of these happenings. For others, these are totally new experiences and a door is opened to unfamiliar ways of life, customs, traditions, and beliefs that have existed for hundreds and sometimes thousands of years, long before this country was called America. The American-Indian Quarterly said that 'this text promotes the same kind of browsing magazines invite. Come to these gatherings and stroll, it seems to imply on page after page, at your leisure learn to appreciate how feasting and singing merge with dancing and storytelling.' ... Read more

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Life on the Reservation
I enjoyed both the art work and the text in this short but well-written book.It certainly gives an outsiderreal information aboutthe lives of Indians living on the reservation today. MS Hotvedt is able to convey inher block prints something of what the dances and traditions must mean tothese people.I highly recommend this book to anyone interested incontemporary Indian life.

WONDERFUL WOODCUTS!
These wonderful woodcuts and related text take the reader into a world vastly different from mainstream culture.The images are taken from Kris Hotvedt's own experiences as she partakes in Pueblo and Navajo life. Owning several of the actual color woodcuts depicted in the book has givenour family great pleasure.We especially love "The Coming of theRivermen" (Cochiti Pueblo), a tradition not observed in any other NewMexico pueblo.This book is a highly recommended look at Pueblo and Navajotraditons as they are still practiced today.

A Peek at Pueblo and Navajo Life
A wonderful little book featuring original woodcuts, by the author, along with informative text explaining each illustration.

One greatly appealing aspect of this book is its simplistic depiction of Pueblo and Navajo life. It is an ideal learning tool for adults and children alike. ... Read more