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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
The Great Sun Chief endangers the entire Anasazi empire when he sets out to kill Cornsilk, the child his wife secretly bore to another man fifteen years earlier, forcing the girl to flee her attackers, along with her friend Poor Singer, and struggle to survive while she seeks to discover her true identity.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
This is one of the finest books ever written about the American Indian. A novel of a Pueblo Indian caught between the ritual ways of his tribe and the alien 20th century world of the white man. This book tells the story of a man who lives as a stranger in both worlds.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"The Navajo called them the Anasazi: an enigmatic race of southwestern cliff dwellers. For centuries, the sudden disappearance of this proud and noble people has baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter form an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revelations. Crossing the border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn the astonishing legacy...
4) Ill Wind
Author
Series
Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
It is whispered that the Old Ones still haunt Mesa Verde-the restless spirits of the Anasazi, who carved their homes in the mountain's face eight centuries ago ... and then disappeared from the Earth. Newly assigned national parks ranger Anna Pigeon seeks solace from her own personal demons in the ancient cave dwellings of a vanished Native American civilization. But an inexplicable illness affecting visitors to the popular Colorado landmark has dragged...
5) Wild Indigo
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Language
English
Description
The high desert of New Mexico becomes the backdrop of ancient rituals, restless spirits, a desperate female Fed, and a crime that could destroy an entire culture. BLM Agent Jamica WIld witnesses a Tanoah Pueblo man being trampled to death by stampeding buffalo. The tribe declares the incident a suicide, the FBI concurs, and the body is hurried to ceremony before the sun can go down on the man's spirit. But Agent Wild suspects foul play.
Author
Series
Civilization of the American Indian volume 71
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
©1971
Language
English
Description
Written by an archaeologist who had spent eight years among the Pueblo tribes of New Mexico, it tells the story of the ancestors of the modern Pueblos, the Queres, who are dominated by a powerful secret society called the Koshare or "Delight Makers." Rivalry between clans and a conspiracy to accuse a woman of sorcery touch off war with a neighboring tribe, the Tehhuas, and lead to the destruction of the Queres settlement.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
The Great Sun Chief endangers the entire Anasazi empire when he sets out to kill Cornsilk, the child his wife secretly bore to another man fifteen years earlier, forcing the girl to flee her attackers, along with her friend Poor Singer, and struggle to survive while she seeks to discover her true identity.
Author
Series
Wild Mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Jamaica Wild, a resource-protection agent for the Bureau of Land Management, fails to save Jerome Santana from being trampled by a herd of buffalo. In fact, the leadership of the Tanoah Pueblo in New Mexico blames her for starting the stampede, not to mention the fact that she was on Pueblo land during Quiet Time, when visitors aren't allowed. Jamaica's investigation to prove Santana's death was murder--freeing her from culpability--leads to an exciting...
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
"The Kachina, or rain deity, stands at the center of the Pueblo Indian religious experience. In the Pueblo belief, the kachina is responsible for the tribe's very survival, for without his intervention the crops will not grow, the cisterns will not be filled, the rivers will not flow." "In Kachinas in the Pueblo World, fourteen noted scholars, among them Fred Eggan, J. J. Brody, and Dennis Tedlock, examine the role of the kachina in the cultures of...
16) Wild Sorrow
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Series
Language
English
Description
Tracking a wounded mountain lion, Jamaica comes across an old Indian School, where children were 'Americanized' after being taken from their homes. As a snowstorm sweeps the canyon, Jamaica must take refuge in the abandoned school.Exploring, Jamaica discovers the desecrated body of an elderly Anglo woman, frozen on the floor. This discovery, combined with the troubled history of the abandoned school, haunts Jamaica throughout the night with the howling...
Author
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
Description
Based on the most up-to-date archaeological and historical research, Rio del Norte is a tour de force, highlighting the upper Rio Grande region and its diverse peoples across some twelve thousand years of continuous history.
18) Thunderhead
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Archeologist Nora Kelly leads an expedition to Utah in search of Quivira, the fabled Indian City of Gold. With the aid of satellite photos the group retraces her missing father's footsteps and runs into monsters.
19) When Jesus came, the Corn Mothers went away: marriage, sexuality, and power in New Mexico, 1500-1846
Author
Series
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
"This social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining the Spanish conquest of America and its impact on a group of indigenous peoples, the Pueblo Indians, seen in large part from their point of view."--Amazon.