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Examines the culture, history, and society of the Pueblos.

When Spanish explorers came to the Southwest region of the United States in the 1600s, they found over 20,000 American Indians already living in the region. These American Indians were part of many different nations. They had their own languages and cultures, and they had developed ways to survive in the desert landscape. Pueblo people lived in permanent villages made of adobe brick. The Hopi had fifty different ways to cook and eat corn. The Navajo...

Discusses the native Americans known as the Anasazi, who migrated to southwestern Colorado in the first century A.D. and mysteriously disappeared in 1300 A.D. after constructing extensive dwellings in the cliffs of the steep canyon walls.

Describes a nine-year-old Navajo boy's life on a present-day reservation.

Describes the history of American Indian tribes in Colorado from the earliest nomads who hunted the giant wooly mammoth to the Utes, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes who lived in a warrior culture. Includes a comprehensive guidebook to archaeological sites, museums, cultural centers, and other sources of information.

Photographs and text explore how pueblos were built and the daily lives of the people who lived in these communal adobe dwellings, including their spiritual beliefs.

Includes Spanish words or phrases.

A Navajo tale that tells how the coyote and bobcat gained their shapes.

In the process of weaving her first Chief's Blanket, Flower After The Rain discovers the meaning of giving and receiving.