With extraordinary honesty and openness, twenty-seven Alaska Natives talk about their lives and their futures. Their experiences reflect the impact of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act passed thirty years ago. ...

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 ...

'Solidly rooted in thirty years of anthropological research, the eleven essays discuss shared characteristics and sustained vitality of Indian dance and musical forms.'---Come-All-Ye ...

Peter Iverson traces the rise and fall of individual and tribal Indian cattle industries on the northern plains and in the Southwest during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For the Indian rancher, raising cattle was both an economically viable way of life and a culturally rewarding career. Such a lifestyle was not encouraged, however, by the Indian Bureau, which recommended farming, rather than ranching, for the reservations. Ranching ...

This concise guide outlines do's and don'ts for visitors to the Indian pueblos of New Mexico. ...

Classic ethnological study of the idea that Native Americans and other cultures in distant parts of the world have created identical ritual patterns to express their separate discoveries of a single insight. "For anyone who wishes a good, readable technical introduction to the spiritual side of the Indian, this is the book." -- "San Francisco Chronicle." ...

Joyce Sequichie Hifler tells the story of her own childhood in the Oklahoma hills of Cherokee Country. A gracefully written story of contemporary Native American life and spirituality, When the Night Bird Sings soars with deep feeling and trademark Hifler insight and compassion. From a family so poor that an eight-dollar monthly check was a godsend, Hifler shares the profound lessons she learned from her extended family of elders and from the ...

In From the Heart, Lee Miller retrieves the voices of Indian people over five centuries and weaves them into an alternate history of the continent, while introducing us to the grandeur and diversity of the 500 nations who held this land before the first European set foot on it. Here, collected in one volume, is the testimony of more than 250 Indian civilizations - of the Aztec king Montezuma, the Seminole leader Osceola, Tecumseh, Cochise, ...

This volume contains three smaller monographs: Oraibi Oaqol Ceremony; Oraibi Natal Customs and Ceremonies; and Oraibi Marau Ceremony. The Oaqol Ceremony discusses the ceremony found in one of the three women's fraternities in the Hopi Indian village of Oraibi, which is the youngest cult, but is the largest religious order in that village. Most of its members and leaders belong to the Sand Clan. Natal Customs and Ceremonies relates the various ...

In his third book of poetry, Edgar Gabriel Silex explores the ways love confronts us. Devastatingly honest, these poems begin with "children transported in confusions of love" and examine relationships within the family and with lovers, and "how our love, for our most precious things, is soiled with our shameful behaviors, by our acceptance of doubt and melancholia."<P>The general movement of the poems is affirmative, traveling from pain ...