An exciting collection of new essays on the work of the outstanding American Indian woman writer.

A novel about thirteen women and their simultaneous voyage to the bridge on the Mexico/U.S. border the day the river mysteriously turns red.

This beautifully illustrated overview of the folk arts of New Mexico from the sixteenth century to the present covers both religious and secular arts including festivals, music, dance, and the visual arts.

Proposes a long sought solution to the mystery of the collapse of the Maya civilization: a series of severe droughts during the ninth and tenth centuries which brought famine, thirst, and death to the Maya lowlands.

Boyer lets these Mexican people speak for themselves about how they got into trouble with the Inquisition.

Takes us into the heart of one Zuni family and allows us to witness the world through its members' eyes.

A history of the Salton Sea, which has become a prophetic story of mounting environmental crises that impinge on the water supply of southern California's sixteen million people.

A study of the shift in American Indian and white relations as both Presidents favored new policies that would have fostered the survival of American Indian cultures and heritages, yet they faced opposition from western senators who insisted on carrying out the so-called termination policies.

Presents a new agenda for study of the strikingly diverse shrub and grassland ecosystems of the U.S./Mexico border.

"A beautiful job, exact, comprehensive and witty. Should remain a basic history of the subject for many years to come."--Edward Abbey

Translated from her own words, this story of a Navajo woman who lived for more than 102 years is a vivid account of traditional lifeways in a harsh and challenging environment.

This new collection of essays gives you the opportunity to know him even more intimately.

Elucidates the clear mark that Native American literature, culture, and oral-poetic traditions have left on five centuries of British and American literature.

This bestselling complete cookbook on southwestern cookery is now available with the real cooks' favorite: a spiral binding.

Written with the general reader in mind, this is the updated edition of the classic on the geology of the red rock and canyon country of the Fours Corners region of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.

A Chicana graduate student learns of a cover-up of the police shooting a young Chicano laborer named Puppet. Both a mystery and a call-to-action novel, Puppet is an underground classic. This is a bilingual edition - Spanish and English.

As the first ethnohistory of modern urban Indians, this perceptive study looks at Indians from many tribes living in cities throughout the United States.

A history of the Four Corners states during their formative territorial years. Newly revised edition.

A comprehensive guide to the historic and contemporary indigenous cultures of the American Southwest, intended for college courses and the general reader.

Studies territorial and rural New Mexico in the nineteenth century, the struggle for statehood, Nuevomexicano politics, immigration, urban issues in the twentieth century, the role of Spanish in education, ethnic identity, and the Chicano movement.

A highly readable account of this major turning point of the Civil War in the West.

This memoir of growing up in northern New Mexico offers a unique and engaging portrait of daily life and customs from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century.

Based on painstaking research and interviews, Sonnichsen's tales bring to life the bloody feuds of the young state of Texas, where personal vengeance righted intolerable wrongs and settled unbearable grievances.

Parallels the lives of Gatewood and Geronimo as events drive them toward their historic meeting in Mexico in 1886--a meeting that marked the beginning of the end of the last Apache war.

Illustrates fishing flies developed by locally-respected fly tyers, with step-by-step instructions for fly fishing success in northern New Mexico.

The stories in this bilingual collection portray the everyday lives of a cross-section of Chicano men and women in the contemporary U.S.

Studies the growth of Indian populations since 1900, showing why and how American Indian populations recovered in the 20th century.

This account of the history of Mexico from Independence to the Revolution traces the struggle of common people to exert control over their everyday lives.

Volume 5 in The Journals of don Diego de Vargas.

This new edition, revised and enlarged to take account of recently published studies as well as a rethinking of certain prevailing views, is a compelling reinterpretation of the independence era. The turbulent history of the independence movements is set forth with attention to key figures and their ideologies, regional differences, and the legacy of underdevelopment left by the wars of independence.

Provides a summary description of the Navajo language and a detailed treatment of the inflectional morphology of its verb system.

These fables from highland Peru, presented in both Quechua and English, capture a rich oral tradition and illustrate many universal human themes.

A bilingual anthology of writings by both secular and religious women writers from colonial Latin America through the 19th century.

A shocking portrait of a small town crumbling--socially, morally, physically and emotionally--under the impact of the great depression of the 1890s. This "cult classic" is now available again in paperback.

This revolutionary synthesis dispels the stereotype of big game hunters following mammoths across the Bering Land Bridge, while painting a vivid picture of marine mammal hunters, fishers, and general foragers colonizing the New World.

Explores the ethical, legal, and intellectual issues related to excavating, selling, collecting, and owning cultural artifacts.

Historical overview from both perspectives of the often-troubled and always uneven relationship between the United States and the nations of Latin America.

This informal account of the people, culture, land, and history of Sonora, Mexico, is now available in paperback.

A companion set of audio compact discs to the text collecting examples of the musical forms used over the centuries in this often isolated and harsh but beautiful region of the Rio Rande. A blend of religious and secular music from sixteenth-century Spain, Mexican-influenced folk tunes, and melodies indigenous to the life of the region, the music covered here includes romances, trovos, cuandos and decimas, inditas, corridos, canciónes, ceremonial and religious music, and dance music.

Examines the conception, production, distribution, and suppression of the pioneering labor-feminist film made during the virulently anti-communist era of the Cold War.

A mixture of fact and fiction, this is the book that defined Wyatt Earp's legend as a gunfighter-lawman.

First published in 1926, this dramatic biography forever installed outlaw Billy the Kid in the pantheon of mythic heroes from the Old West.

From Brazil's most distinguished and important Jewish writer comes this anthology of powerful stories, bringing a compelling voice of the Jewish Diaspora to the English language.

This bilingual edition of these classic folk dramas is produced for both those acting in the plays, or for students of the literature.

Personal and historical meditations explore the human and natural history of the large expanse of land the Navajos once named the Horizontal Yellow.

A bilingual sampler of southwestern tales, legends, and myths offering the modern reader wisdom passed down for hundreds of years.

A California farmworker kid's season in hell, told through fast-verse lines that careen to the beat of a fiery heart.

Hatfield examines for the first time the military campaigns on both sides of the border against the Apaches and other native peoples during the late nineteenth century.

These essays explore the complex world of grandmothers in Native America, where, although often impoverished and marginalized, they provide a vital connection to native identity, history, and wisdom.

This personal and historical account traces the twentieth-century legal battle, Healing v. Jones, and it's effects on both tribes.