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Publisher
School for Advanced Research Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
According to archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, much of what we think we know about the Southwest has been compressed into conventions and classifications and orthodoxies. This book challenges and reconfigures these accepted notions by telling two parallel stories, one about the development, personalities, and institutions of Southwestern archaeology and the other about interpretations of what actually happened in the ancient past. While many works...
29) Navaho Neighbors
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Description
Recollections of Navajo daily life and customs observed while operating the Blue Mesa trading post near Gallup, New Mexico.
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Language
English
Description
"Together with the Comanches and Kiowas, for a time the Shoshonis dominated the Great Plains of Colorado and into Texas. Even after their allies had drifted southward, they fought creditably with the Sioux and the Blackfeet--that is, until their enemies acquired the gun and chased them back into the mountains"--Book jacket.
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Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
©1962
Language
English
Description
"The scope of the modern European expansion which began in the fifteenth century far exceeded that of any previous "world" conquest. During the 1500's and 1600's it proceeded to enmesh in its web of domination the natives of the Americas, Africa, southern Asia, and the islands of the South Seas. The Indians of North America were the first to feel the full impact, as the Spaniards moved with surprising success to add a New Spain to their empire. Rapidly...
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Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau—bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders, tiny spirals in stone, human figures with upraised arms shifting with the desert light, each one a portal to the open mouth of time. With a spirit of generosity, humility, and love of the arid, intricate landscapes of the desert Southwest, Childs sets these ancient communications in context, inviting readers to look and listen deeply.
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