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This classic guide to New Mexico and Arizona Indian ceremonials is the best single reference for visitors to dances at the Rio Grande Pueblos, Zuni Pueblo, the Hopi Mesas, and the Navajo and Apache reservations. It describes the principal public ceremonials along with some more obscure dances that are rarely performed today.
4) The Utes
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Series
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book is an overview of the past and present lives of the Utes, including their history, food and clothing, homes and family life, religion, and government.
5) Ute
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Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the history, social structure, customs, and present life of the Ute Indians.
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English
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Guarded by cliff, river, and desert, the more than sixty sites discussed in this revised and expanded edition of Ancient Ruins include the well-known--Mesa Verde, Canyon de Chelly--the remote--Grand Gulch, Kinishba Ruins--and the newly discovered--Casa Malpais, Chimney rock Pueblo.
In addition to descriptions of each site, the author provides time-saving tips for the traveler, citing major highways, nearby towns and the facilities they offer, campgrounds,...
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English
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One of Frank Waters's most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change."Readers who are content to take the primitive and ruthless Maria del Valle on her own terms will treasure her and return to her again and again." --The New York Times"Mr. Waters has created in Old Maria a character of vital and lyrical intensity. His 'people...
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Series
Ben Pecos mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Intrigue Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Tony Hillerman called it a gripping novel. Booklist says this is a series to watch. Start listening to award-winning author Susan Slater's original series right here, from the beginning.
Native American psychologist Ben Pecos has returned to the New Mexico pueblo of his birth as an intern with the Indian Health Service. Still struggling with the demons of his past, he is plunged into the nightmare rampage of a mysterious illness that is killing the...
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English
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Drawing on his exploration of the area for more than three decades, Wilkinson (law, U. of Colorado-Boulder) examines a number of historical events and continuing issues relating to the redrock countryside and Indian societies of the Colorado Plateau, which stretches across the states forming the Four Corners. Maps detail the various localities he describes.
11) Dragonfly's tale
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After a poor harvest, two children regain the Corn Maidens' blessings for their people with the aid of a cornstalk toy, the dragonfly.
13) The Zunis
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Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs examine the history, religion, social structure, and daily life of the Zuni Indians, one of the groups of Pueblo Indians living in New Mexico.
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Language
English
Description
The author of the No-Eyes series weaves a suspenseful story about four people who, for various reasons, are strangely drawn to a sacred place hidden deep beneath the New Mexican desert. Is there a guarded chamber there that holds sacred scrolls and tablets with answers to humanity's most puzzling mysteries? The answers to that question and many others unfold in this tale of humanity grappling with its past history and future possibilities.
16) Maria Martinez
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Series
Publisher
Dillon Press
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Pueblo Indian woman who became renowned for her skill in pottery.
18) Ute
Series
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
19) The visitant
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Series
Anasazi mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
At its pinnacle in A.D. 1150, the Anasazi empire was vast and sophisticated, unequaled until the arrival of the Europeans--and then they simply disappeared.Dr. Maureen Cole, one of the world's foremost physical anthropologists, is called in to examine and evaluate a mass grave discovered in New Mexico. The burial site contains nothing but the shattered skulls of women and children. As Dr. Cole works to unravel the mystery of these deaths, strange...