A reprint of John Doyle Lee's 1891 autobiography, this edition includes the story of Brigham Young, early Mormonism, and the Mountain Meadows massacre.

Modern Navajo tribal government originated in 1923 solely to approve oil leases. This ethnohistory tracks the major changes brought to the Navajo people in the six decades following the discovery and exploitation of oil and gas on tribal lands.

Loeffler has recorded interviews with representatives of the diverse cultures of New Mexico, revealing the cultural mosaic of the people along the Continental Divide.

Tobias explores the cultural and political influence of the New Mexico Jewish community since the Second World War.

Fagette's book is a thorough, compelling history of American archaeology in its most critical decade, the 1930s.

The author examines class formation and social and labor issues in this study of the Hidalgo mining district in northern Mexico from the 1890s to the 1920s.

Exciting words by talented poets who have made Albuquerque's poetry slams so successful.

Sonny Baca investigates the brutal murder of his cousin, whose husband is a candidate for mayor of Albuquerque.

Debunks the romanticist stereotyping of Navajo weavers and Reservation traders and situates weavers within the economic history of the southwest.

To read this book is to hear her own quiet voice, describing pueblo ceremonials, detailing the difficulties of life during the war years, and above all recording her own spiritual relationship with the New Mexico landscape.

Folk music fans and teachers will welcome this new edition of a New Mexico classic, now in a useful spiral binding.

Stunning photographs document "Buffalo Bill" Cody's early years as he led a troupe of traveling actors performing in frontier melodramas across the country.

The Black Panther Party has responded to the needs of various communities underserved by government agencies by providing social services ranging from food and educational programs to medical care.

Ji-Stu the Rabbit thinks he's very clever but discovers he has outsmarted himself.

Gilb has created more than a literary anthology--this is a mosaic of the cultural and historical stories of Texas Mexican writers, musicians, and artists.

The myth and ceremony of Maya beliefs have been sustained for over five hundred years in spite of massacres, persecution, and discrimination.

Eckert illustrates how the relationship between ethnicity, migration, and ritual practice combined to create a complexly patterned material culture among residents of two fourteenth-century Pueblo villages.

Sagan charts the exploration of the soul on this home called planet earth.

A new look at Puebloan landscaping techniques and uses of plants and how they can influence modern architects in the Southwest.

A discussion of the emergence of Hispano identity among the Spanish-speaking people of New Mexico during the 19th and 20th centuries.

A chronological overview of important art, sculpture, and architectural monuments of colonial Latin America within the economic and religious contexts of the era.

Iconic photographs and the stories of the men, women, and children who work California's farms and orchards to feed America.

Robert Conley's history of the Cherokees is the first to be endorsed by the Cherokee Nation and to be written by a Cherokee.

Schullery's heartfelt reflections on his relationship to the wildness of Yellowstone Park.

Torrez studies the gritty role of hangings in frontier New Mexico.

These stories of real people who have immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico show how they have changed their new country and how they are changed by it.

Stockel examines the brutal history of forced conversion and subjection of the Chiricahua Apaches by Spanish priests during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Conley has compiled a guide to historical and contemporary members of the Cherokee tribe and their roles in their clans and nations.

Well-known anthropologist Lamphere highlights the voices of three generations of Navajo women who are weaving their traditional beliefs with modern American culture to create a new blueprint for their lives and the next generations.

Recent research on the intriguing Allen Site in southwestern Nebraska and the nearby Medicine Creek sites has revealed a wealth of new information on the land and animal use of the early inhabitants.