Baumler and Cooper collaborate to tell the human story of Montana's first federal penal facility.

This fast-paced mystery expands the ChupaCabra folklore into a metaphor that deals with the new powers inherent in science.

Murder jeopardizes tourist dollars during the Albuquerque fall balloon extravaganza in this exciting Sonny Baca mystery.

These essays by noted scholars place Latin America's Jews squarely within the context of both Latin American and ethnic studies, a significant departure from traditional approaches that have treated Latin American Jewry as a subset of Jewish Studies.

Mora's insights on bilingualism, education, women, and family are sometimes barbed and always exact.

This is an updated edition of the story of the gang scene in East L.A. and Father Gregory Boyle's innovative ministry and economic development efforts in the area.

In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, Jordan traces the written accounts of Mvskoke religion from the eighteenth century to the present in order to historically contextualize Lewis's story and knowledge. This book is a collaboration between anthropologist and medicine man that provides a rare glimpse of a living religious tradition and its origins.

"Every patient should read it, if only to be made aware that they are not alone with their thoughts. Every spouse of a patient should read it. . . . Every medical student and physician should read it to learn that the biology of the disease is really just a small part of the illness."--John Saiki, M.D., Medical Oncology, University of New Mexico

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.