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Four Corners: History, Land, and People of the Desert Southwest by Kenneth A Brown Publisher Comments Book One Beginnings In calling up images of the past, I find that the plains of Patagonia frequently cross before my eyes; yet these plains are pronounced by all that is all wretched and useless. They can be described only by negative characters; without... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs Publisher Comments In this landmark work on the Anasazi tribes of the Southwest, naturalist Craig Childs dives head on into the mysteries of this vanished people. The various tribes that made up the Anasazi people converged on Chaco Canyon (New Mexico) during the 11th... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Book of the Hopi by Frank Waters Publisher Comments In this unique collection, some thirty Hopi elders reveal for the first time in written form the Hopi world-view.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dine Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story by Paul Zolbrod Publisher Comments Zolbrod's book offers the general reader a vivid introduction to Navajo culture.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Meditations with the Hopi by Robert Boissiere Publisher Comments A heartfelt and reverential view of the Hopi Way as seen by one of the few white men to have lived within this ancient culture, "Meditations with the Hopi" imparts to us the essence of the Hopi experience--from child's first cry to soul's departure, each... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Theft of the Spirit: A Journey to Spiritual Healing by Carl A Hammerschlag Publisher Comments The author of the highly successful book The Dancing Healers draws on the cultural rituals and traditions of Native Americans to illustrate the mind/body connection to spiritual healing.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Field Guide To Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Sout by Alex Patterson Publisher Comments This is the only specifically designed key to the interpretation of American rock art. The Field Guide brings together 600 commentaries on specific symbols by over 100 archaeologists, researchers, and Native American informants. Covers the northern... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Geronimo: My Life by S M Barrett Publisher Comments In this, one of Native American history's most extraordinary documents, a legendary warrior and shaman recounts the beliefs and customs of his people. Completely and utterly authentic, its captivating narrator is Geronimo himself, who describes his early... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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We Are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People by Jeffrey P. Shepherd Publisher Comments Focuses on the historical construction of the Hualapai Nation in the face of modern American colonialism. Shepherd grounds his account in Haulapai voices and agendas while simultaneously situating their history into the larger tapestry of Native peoples'... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life by Jim Kristofic Publisher Comments With tales of gangs and skinwalkers, an Indian Boy Scout troop, a fanatical Sunday school teacher, and the author's own experience of sincere friendships that lead to ho?zho? (beautiful harmony), Kristofic's memoir is an honest portrait of growing up on--... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O'Odham Country by Gary Paul Nabhan Publisher Comments Longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O'odham people have spent centuries living off the land—a land that most modern citizens of southern Arizona consider totally inhospitable. Ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan has lived with the Tohono O... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Apache by Will Leving Comfort Publisher Comments At the center of this stirring saga of the Apache-Anglo frontier is Mangas Colorados, the formidable chief of the "Red Paint People," or Eastern Chiricahua Apaches. Born about 1795 probably in southern New Mexico, the Apache warrior (popularly known as... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bedbugs' Night Dance and Other Hopi Tales of Sexual Encounter by Michae Lomatuway Ma Publisher Comments The mysteries and complexities of sex—the wonder of sexual initiation, the discomfort of sexual desire, the penalties of indulgence, and the power of erotic love—have all found expression in Hopi tales. Sometimes cast in animal fables,... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Only One Living to Tell: The Autobiography of a Yavapai Indian by Mike Burns Publisher Comments Mike Burns--born Hoomothya--was around eight years old in 1872 when the US military murdered his family and as many as seventy-six other Yavapai men, women, and children in the Skeleton Cave Massacre in Arizona. One of only a few young survivors, he was... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Pueblo Storyteller by Barbara A Babcock Synopsis The art of figurative pottery-making in Pueblo ceramics, including the invention of the Storyteller, are documented in this beautifully illustrated coffee-table book.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Indian Blankets and Their Makers by George Wharton James Publisher Comments History, old-style wool blankets, changes brought about by traders, symbolism of design and color, a Navajo weaver at work, more. Emphasis on Navajo. Includes information on the Bayeta blanket, squaw dresses, dyeing, belts, garters, hair braids... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Civilization of the American Indian #231: Mangas Coloradas: Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches by Edwin R Sweeney Publisher Comments Mangas Coloradas led his Chiricahua Apache people for almost forty years. During the last years of Mangas’s life, he and his son-in-law Cochise led an assault against white settlement in Apachería that made the two of them the most feared... (read more) Your price: $32.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Pima Remembers by George Webb Publisher Comments "A flavorsome re-creation of things past in the life of a generous, friendly people." —New York Times Book Review "George Webb's gentle recollections of his childhood and Pima Indian lifeways will doubtless endure forever. This... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sacred Images: A Vision of Native American Rock Art by Leslie G Kelen Publisher Comments For lovers of French decorating, this book reproduces some of the earliest toile designs from 18th-century France. Delicate flower prints, fun animal motifs, rich historic scenes, and complex architectural patterns are just some of the subjects... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Po'Pay: Leader of the First American Revolution by Joe Sando Publisher Comments Po?pay: Leader of the First American Revolution chronicles the history of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and its leader, Po?pay, with commentaries on the historical and cultural importance of these events. Drawing on their oral history and using their own... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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