A compilation of stories, vignettes, and poems that describe the author's spiritual and intellectual voyage as he retraces a 300-year journey made by his ancestors from Montana to New Mexico.
In Momaday's first novel, Abel is a Jemez Indian returning to his tribe after World War II. An outsider among his own people because of his war experiences and because of the fact that he is the illegitimate offspring of a Navajo, Abel is humiliated at a ceremony, then he murders the man who offended him. After serving an eight-year sentence, Abel ...
Set is a San Francisco artist, a Kiowan Indian who was raised by a white professor. He travels to Oklahoma to the Kiowan reservation to attend the funeral of a relative and meets Grey, a medicine woman. Set returns to San Francisco, but his painting suffers along with his psyche. After he has a nervous breakdown, he goes back to the reservation, ...
Of all of the works of N. Scott Momaday, The Names may be the most personal. A memoir of his boyhood in Oklahoma and the Southwest, it is also described by Momaday as "an act of the imagination. When I turn my mind to my early life, it is the imaginative part of it that comes first and irresistibly into reach, and of that part I take hold". ...
In the early 1900s, photographer Edward S. Curtis began documenting the lives of Native Americans. This volume presents 200 images that explore Native American culture tribe by tribe, including never before published black-and-white photos.
To the Navajo, sandpaintings are sacred, living entities that reflect the interconnectedness of all living beings - humans, plants, stars, animals, and mountains. This book explores the circularity of Navajo thought in analyses of sandpaintings, Navajo chantway myths, and stories reflected in the celestial constellations. Beginning with an ...
The Spanish missions of the United States are the unique legacy of two very different cultures. Conceived as an expression of the Catholic faith of the European conquerors, they were built and maintained by native Americans who often incorporated their own traditions. A Sense of Mission: Historic Churches of the Southwest presents twenty-nine of ...
Drawing on childhood memories of Christmas in a New Mexican village, Momaday produces a poetic story that skilfully blends Christian and Native American traditions. On Christmas Eve, Tolo, a lonely mute boy, is drawn by the spirit of his beloved grandfather to a bonfire in the mountains, where he shares a 'circle of wonder and good will' with an ...
'The story is told sensitively and knowledgeably, giving readers a sympathetic picture of Navajo life at the middle of the twentieth century' - "American Indian Quarterly". 'Details of Navajo culture and religious beliefs and suggestions of the conflict between traditional ways and the white man's ways are accurate and interesting' - "Library ...
Portraits of people, ceremonies and villages in the American Southwest taken in the early part of the century are contrasted with current photographs of similar images. Early photographers thought that they were documenting a dying race and culture. Keegan demonstrates the vitality of Native American culture and shows how the same customs and ...
The Spanish missions of the United States are the unique legacy of two very different cultures. Conceived as an expression of the Catholic faith of the European conquerors, they were built and maintained by native Americans who often incorporated their own traditions.
Andrews continues her journey where "Medicine Woman" left off, as she renews her apprenticeship to Native-American shaman Agnes Whistling Elk. Through the creation of her shield she comes to know the full ancient power of women, as well as her own spiritual path.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of House Made of Dawn has gathered together 70 of his poems--most never before published--and sixteen new stories, all enhanced by his original, truly interpretive drawings, to create a glorious testament to our Native American past.
The Pulitzer Prize-winner presents a luminous collection that reflects the traditions of the Native American past. This work includes 56 poems, 16 legends about great tribal shields, a section on Billy the Kid, and 60 haunting line drawings and paintings by Momaday himself.
Through the eyes of two Kiowa children, young readers will learn the beauty and danger of a world almost forgotten. The mythic legend of how the Kiowa Indians first arrived in Oklahoma will awaken children to the richness of the states Indian heritage. Illustrated with sketches almost poetic in their simplicity and paintings that echo the power ...
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