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More than 160 tales from eighty tribal groups gives us a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage.
Join Craig Childs as he draws on the latest scholarly research, as well as a lifetime of exploration in the forbidden landscapes of the American Southwest, to shed new light on this compelling mystery.
This 544-page reference is an ultimate travel planner for all things national parks.
ARCHAEOLOGY & ASTRONOMY
This third edition of David Grant Noble’s indispensable guide to archaeological ruins of the American Southwest includes updated text and thirteen newly opened archaeological sites.
Written in his trademark lyrical style, Craig Childs’s riveting new book is a ghost story–an intense, impassioned investigation into the nature of the past and the things we leave behind.
A brilliantly starry night is one of nature’s most thrilling wonders.
A substantially revised and expanded overview of the legacy of prehistoric cultures of the American Southwest, as preserved and interpreted by the National Park Service in more than 37 sites.
Aviation and archaeology merged when Alfred V. Kidder, of the Carnegie Institution, hired Lindbergh to photograph the sites from an airplane.
Anna Sofaer found the now-famous “Sun Dagger” petroglyph site on a desert butte high above Chaco Culture NHP at Summer Solstice in 1977, leading to 30 years research into the meaning of ancient Chaco’s astronomical expressions.
The site of a great Ancestral Pueblo center in the 11th and 12th centuries AD, the ruins in Chaco Canyon look like a city to some archaeologists, a ceremonial center to others.
Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest offers a complete picture of Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundred years of growth and change, ending with the modern-day Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona.
Anasazi Architecture and American Design is a journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde with leading southwestern archaeologists, historians, architects, landscape architects, artists, and urban planners as guides.
The structures of Chaco Canyon, built by native peoples between AD 850 and 1130, are among the most compelling ancient monuments on earth.
“Emil Haury stands as one of the finest archaeologists of the American Southwest.” -Choice
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
More than 160 tales from eighty tribal groups gives us a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage.
Thirty elders of the ancient Hopi tribe of Northern Arizona—a people who regard themselves as the first inhabitants of America—freely reveal the Hopi worldview for the first time in written form.
Recently updated, Hopi Kachinas: The Complete Guide to Collecting Kachina Dolls continues to be the best-selling book for identifying and collecting Kachinas.
Archaeologists, Roberts writes, have been puzzling over the Anasazi for more than a century, trying to determine the environmental and cultural stresses that caused their society to collapse 700 years ago.
At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time.
This comprehensive view of carvings and paintings on stone by Native Americans from 200 B.C. through the nineteenth century surveys the rock art of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, northern Mexico, and west Texas.
This is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews’ Navajo Legends of 1847.
An introduction to collecting and caring for Navajo rugs and woven art.
Here is a thorough, and long-needed, presentation of the nature of the Pueblo gods and myths.
Susanne and Jake Page share their personal experience at the Navajo Nation and cover the culture’s history and traditions, including Jake’s own experience in a healing ceremony.
In the tenth century AD, a remarkable cultural development took place in the harsh and forbidding San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico.
This best-selling guide to collectible Indian crafts features bright, clear photographs of work by Navajo, Zuni, Hopi, and Santo Domingo artists.
This collection of authentic stories extracted from his classic Zuñi Folk Tales offers modern readers of all ages a new appreciation of magic and myth as celebrated by the Zuñi Indians of western New Mexico.
Zuni pueblo in western New Mexico is renowned for its small carved stone animal figurines, or fetishes.
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted.
Most people are familiar with the famous pre-Columbian civilizations of the Aztecs and Maya of Mexico, but few realize just how advanced were contemporary cultures in the American Southwest.
In northwestern New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon lies a spectacular array of ruins. Like Stonehenge, they are both a monument to our pre-history and a cryptic puzzle.
Here the noted folklorist brings together traditional accounts of epic events and adventures in the life of Hopi clans and villages, from legendary to historical times.
Anasazi, the Navajos’ name for the “Ancient Ones” who preceded them into the Southwest, is the nickname of Richard Wetherill, who devoted his life to a search for remains of these vanished peoples.
The dramatic and tragic story of the only successful Native American uprising against the Spanish, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
Fifty Indian nations lie within the modern American Southwest, communities sustained through four centuries of European and American contact by their cultural traditions and ties to the land.
John Kantner traces the evolution of Pueblo society in the American Southwest from the emergence of the Chaco and Mimbres in the AD 1000s through the early decades of contact with the Spanish in the sixteenth century.
In exploring the possible evidence of water-control features, archaeologists recovered some 200,000 artifacts. Here they use the artifacts and fauna they found to examine the lives and activities of the inhabitants of Pueblo Bonito.
Guide to petroglyphs in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Concise information about how, when, where, and why petroglyphs were made.
Guide to petroglyphs found in Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. Includes drawings and interpretations.
This storied place–Chaco Canyon–carries multiple layers of meaning for Native Americans and archaeologists, writers and tourists, explorers and artists.
In 1849, the Corps of Topographical Engineers commissioned Lieutenant James H. Simpson to undertake the first survey of Navajo country in present-day New Mexico.
The Zuni are a Southwestern people whose origins have long intrigued anthropologists. This volume presents fresh approaches to that question from both anthropological and traditional perspectives.
A meticulous and engaging history of one of the largest and most powerful Pueblos.
In this illustrated anthology, readers will discover chapters written over the past several decades by anthropologist-writers.
For six centuries huge prehistoric buildings lay deserted and undisturbed, buried under sand and silt in a remote canyon in northwestern New Mexico.
Pueblo Animals and Myths (The Civilization of the American Indian series)
Ethnologist and historian Thomas Sheridan covers all the major topics of Southwest history: cultures, ethnicity, racism, war, water, mining, ranching, and conservation.
Conveys the natural and human histories of the canyons and mesas of the Pajarito Plateau in northern New Mexico, once inhabited by the ancestral Puebloans.
Kayenta Anasazi built and occupied Betatakin and Keet Seel, the largest cliff dwellings in Arizona, a.d. 1250-1300.
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, the pueblos of the Southwest frequently inspired Anglo-American visitors to express their sense of wonder and enchantment in biblical references.
NATIVE AMERICAN COOKING
Covering more than 160 southwestern plant medicines, within 102 profiles, Medicinal Plants of the American Southwest describes each plant’s medicinal use, therapeutic indication, geographic range, botanical characteristics, chemical composition, preparation, dosage, and cautions.
The Pueblo Food Experience Cookbook is an original cookbook by, for, and about the Pueblo peoples of New Mexico.
This bestselling cookbook and curio is the definitive collection of Pueblo Indian cooking. It’s all here―from savory Chickpea Soup to sweet Piñon Nut Cake dripping with honey.
Heritage farming is using time-tried successes of the past in order to grow food that is good for the consumer and good for the farmer.
This book is the best first step to your own authentic southwestern garden. Features step-by-step instructions for plants such as corn, beans, squash, and many other beautiful and delicious food plants.
NATURE & ECOLOGY
Join Craig Childs as he draws on the latest scholarly research, as well as a lifetime of exploration in the forbidden landscapes of the American Southwest, to shed new light on this compelling mystery.
Author Joe Dan Lowry is recognized worldwide as a leading expert on the subject, and Turquoise Unearthed: An Illustrated Guide is the definitive resource for rock hounds and serious collectors alike.
This book features 143 species of New Mexico birds, organized by color for ease of use.
The birds are organized by group for ease of use, and each entry is accompanied by fact-filled naturalist information and gee-whiz facts that are accessible for beginners but informative for more experienced birders.
Large color photographs get you close to the scintillating tiger beetle, the well-dressed rainbow grasshopper, the zippy orange skimmer, and even the blood-thirsty kissing bug.
Filled with concise descriptions and stunning photographs, the National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern States belongs in the home of every resident of the Southeast and in the suitcase or backpack of every visitor.
Handy reference book describes and depicts 50 species commonly found in the Southwest, particularly those occurring in National Park Service areas.
Wild plants in the Southwest have always been useful to humans and other animals, not only as food but as building materials, tools, materials for creating art, and as medicine.
Large color photographs clearly show the animals in the wild. You’ll find it easy to remember and recognize these elusive creatures after you’ve seen them a lot closer than you’re likely to get by yourself.
Introduces some of the more common and beautiful plants of the Southwest mountains and provides interesting information on their uses by native peoples and animals.
In this updated and expanded version of his 1982 book Fossils of New Mexico, Kues offers a detailed overview of the fauna and flora of New Mexico through the past 500 million years, from Cambrian through Pleistocene time.
Enjoy startling photographs of secretive mountain lions, wild javelinas, cute coatimundis, and energetic jackrabbits, plus infornmation needed to find these animals and safely observe them. Includes index.
Designed for ease of use and featuring only mammals of the Southwest, the booklet is organized by group for quick and easy identification.
Illustrated guide with color photographs of the flowers including information on them and their location.
100 Desert Wildflowers is an indispensable guide to the names, characteristics, ranges, and other important identifying features of the flowering plants you’re most likely to encounter — in both wet and dry years.
The jumbled, volcanic badlands of northeastern New Mexico cover 590 square miles, an area half the size of Rhode Island.
TRAVEL RESOURCES
This 544-page reference is an ultimate travel planner for all things national parks.
Stars Above, Earth Below uses photographs and sky charts to form a connection between what is seen on the ground and in the sky, and looks at the deeper scientific meaning behind these sights.
Chasing Light is a testament to the beauty and wonder of our national parks. It is also the story of National Parks Eminent Photographer Frank Lee Ruggles.
The southwestern United States, with its astounding collection of national parks and monuments, offers travel unlike any other.
Part travel guide, part friendly reference, Ancient America showcases fifty iconic and publicly-accessible sites located across the contiguous United States—including monumental pyramids of earth, “castles” ensconced in cliff niches, and vast rock art galleries.
Skillfully mixing storytelling with science, birder and author Lynn Hassler unravels the mysteries of the legendary raven in this very engaging book.
Ethnologist and historian Thomas Sheridan covers all the major topics of Southwest history: cultures, ethnicity, racism, war, water, mining, ranching, and conservation.
Detailed information for 46 Indian reservations in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Utah.
Award-wining author Nicky Leach’s essays illuminate the hidden beauty that is the lure of this legendary landscape-a region that is both enticing and forbidding-providing the reader with a more complete understanding of this sublime landscape.
SPIRITUAL
CHILDREN
Whether he’s hanging out with his friends, chasing rabbits, mixing it up with a Gila monster, or pondering the setting sun, coyote Frank is one smooth character.
Calling all explorers and nature-lovers! From Acadia to Zion, discover all 59 of the United States’ amazing National Parks in this jam-packed book.
In this educational coloring book, noted nature illustrator Ruth Soffer captures the fascinating life and diversity of the North American desert in 44 detailed illustrations.
Gather your pens or pencils and find a wealth of serenity in the Ultimate Coloring National Parks.
Surveys the history, culture, and lifestyles of the ancient Indians of the Southwest through 101 questions.
Introduce kids to 26 of the most interesting and well-known constellations through dot-to-dots and other creative activities―like mazes, word finds, and more.
Learn about the wonders of this amazing habitat and how animals survive there in an interactive introduction by Karen Krebbs that’s sure to occupy kids for countless hours.
Includes retellings of six Tewa Indian legends and a brief biographical section about the author, who is a noted American Indian artist.
Here’s a wonderful way to enjoy the Southwest’s natural splendor: Relax, unwind, and color 65 of the region’s most famous settings.
Enter the magic world of riparian areas where one little creek provides shelter to a host of plants and animals.
Frank’s best friend, Angelina, is one of a kind. Angelina is smart and brave and she can howl at the moon even louder than Frank can.
A young boy searches for his father, but before he can claim his heritage he must first prove his worthiness by passing through the four ceremonial chambers.
An introduction to Native American folklore.
Knocked from her mother’s safe embrace by an attacking owl, Stellaluna lands headfirst in a bird’s nest.
For countless generations, Native American storytellers have watched the night sky and told tales of the stars and the constellations.
Jackrabbit causes much unhappiness with his careless answers to the animals’ questions.
Ancient Dwellings of the Southwest puts the people back in these places in three dimensions. Hohokam ball players leap and dive in the ballcourt at Casa Grande Ruins in Arizona.
FICTION
Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues.
Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst.
The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evil unleashed. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is sure the monster who savagely slaughtered an old man and a teenage girl was human.
Complete Set by Tony Hillerman.
At its pinnacle in A.D. 1150, the Anasazi empire was vast and sophisticated, unequalled until the arrival of the Europeans—and then they simply disappeared.
The Summoning God is more than a superb murder mystery, it is a psychological thriller with blockbuster action, romance and suspense.
Bone Walker is more than a murder mystery, it is a psychological thriller filled with the action that have made this the dynamic duo of the historical.