This is a very exciting book of hiking adventures around the Southwest. Roberts follows the trails of early explorers and archaeologists to out-of-the-way places, revealing ruins of the Anasazi people.
This is a wonderful book and Ishi was a wonderful and fascinating person. Ishi was apprehended near a farm outside of Oroville, California, on August 29, 1911. He was a Yahi (or Southern Yana), middle aged, tattered and almost starving. What was most surprising was that he had survived the systematic extermination of Yahis in the 1870s and 80s by local ranchers. Indeed, as it turned out, Ishi and his family had lived in Deer Creek, traditional Yahi territory, and had survived many intrusions by Americans. Ishi was taken to Berkeley and San Francisco by anthropologists of the University of California, T. T. Watermann and Alfred L. Kroeber; he lived there, working in the university's Anthropology Museum --- an object of study but also a close and endearing friend. Ishi died on March 25, 1916, in San Francisco, like so many Native Americans of European disease (tuberculosis).
While Moore is an Anglo author, this humorous novel about a young Native American man, making it off reservation in 20th Century America, demonstrates a great understanding of classic Coyote.
This is a very engaging book of personal recollections and lessons learned while working with both Navajos and Hopis near Black Mesa in the 1930s. Hall was a freshman at Pomona College when he began; after transferring to the University of Denver, he worked for a period of time with the Indian Emergency Conservation Work (the Indian equivalent of the CCC during the depression) under John Collier's "New Deal" for American Indians. Hall and his crews worked on roads and dams. The book is dedicated to Lorenzo Hubbell, a famous Indian trader of the period and the medium through whom Hall learned essential questions about Navajo and Hopi culture. Very easy reading with lots of good insights into issues of cultural diversity!
This is an amazing (perhaps miraculous) book. Thomas Jefferson Mayfield was born in Texas in 1843 and, by the late 1840s, his father moved his wife and three children by sea to San Francisco and, from there, by horse and by foot across the Coastal Mountains (Pacheco Pass) and through the San Joaquim Valley to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, in the vicinity of the Kings River. In 1850, his mother dead and his father and older brothers pressed into heavy labor in order to survive, Mayfield was adopted by Choinumne Yokuts Indians and grew up with them until almost twenty years of age. Merging with Anglo California in the 1860s, Mayfield carried the story of his childhood in silence until he finally reported it to an aspiring young historian of the locality, Frank Latta in the 1920s. It is an amazing tale with rich insights into the culture and lifeways of California's Yokuts Indians before they had been significantly disturbed. [Also read Vanishing Landscape: Land and Life in the Tulare Lake Basin by William Preston (UCP, 1981) for a detailed picture of how the Southern San Joaquim Valley was transformed (read "destroyed") by Anglo-American agriculture and industry.]
This is a brand new edition of a book first published in 1984. It is full of striking drawings in NW style. And it's a great, entertaining collection of NW Raven stories.
This is a wonderful, entertaining discussion of Coyote. It begins with a treatment of the traditional Coyote and ends with a chapter, "The Once and Future Coyote." Along the way, Bright discusses all sides of Coyote's character, with examples.
