Author: Kris Hotvedt
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 9780865342040
Category : Navajo Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Get Book
Book Description
This collection represents a segment of the lives of the Navajo and Pueblo people of the American Southwest-two diverse groups who are an important part of American culture today. Each year thousands of visitors from all over the world attend their various ceremonial dances and events and many arrive with a knowledge and understanding of these happenings. For others, these are totally new experiences and a door is opened to unfamiliar ways of life, customs, traditions, and beliefs that have existed for hundreds and sometimes thousands of years, long before this country was called America. The "American-Indian Quarterly" said that "this text promotes the same kind of browsing magazines invite. Come to these gatherings and stroll, it seems to imply on page after page; at your leisure learn to appreciate how feasting and singing merge with dancing and storytelling." * * * * Kris Hotvedt studied at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, received a BFA degree from San Francisco Art Institute, and her MFA from the Instituto Allende in Mexico. An artist of strong professional commitment and identification with Native American and Hispanic culture, Hotvedt exhibited widely throughout the United States in both group and solo shows. Her work is represented in public and private collations. The woodblock print was her principal medium, a medium that seems to best capture her unique interpretation of the American Southwest scene.
Author: Ruth Underhill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Donna Janell Bowman
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1543538355
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Get Book
Book Description
The Long Walk to forced imprisonment in eastern New Mexico still haunts the Navajo people. But after years of suffering they were allowed to return to their traditional lands where they prospered. Today the Navajo celebrate their strengths and proudly maintain their cultural traditions in modern America.
Author: Jon Manchip White
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486147835
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Get Book
Book Description
Well-researched and highly readable study provides in-depth views of the daily life, times, and culture of the Native American athlete, warrior, spouse, and parent; witch doctor, worshipper, artist and craftsman. 107 black-and-white illustrations.
Author: Kurt Peters
Publisher: AltaMira Press
ISBN: 0585386366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Get Book
Book Description
Modern American Indian life is urban, rural, and everything in-between. Lobo and Peters have compiled an unprecedented collection of innovative scholarship, stunning art, poetry, and prose that documents American Indian experiences of urban life. A pervasive rural/urban dichotomy still shapes the popular and scholarly perceptions of Native Americans, but this is a false expression of a complex and constantly changing reality. When viewed from the Native perspectives, our concepts of urbanity and approaches to American Indian studies are necessarily transformed. Courses in Native American studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, and urban studies must be in step with contemporary Indian realities, and American Indians and the Urban Experience will be an absolutely essential text for instructors. This powerful combination of path-breaking scholarship and visual and literary arts—from poetry and photography to rap and graffiti—will be enjoyed by students, scholars, and a general audience. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book.
Author: John D. Clare
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780764110719
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Get Book
Book Description
This book presents the diversity of Native American life, from the fifteenth century to the twentieth century.
Author: Donna Janell Bowman
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1491449926
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Get Book
Book Description
"Explains Navajo history and highlights Navajo life in modern society"--
Author: Tisa Joy Wenger
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807832626
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Get Book
Book Description
For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often act
Author: Thomas E. Sheridan
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816514666
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Get Book
Book Description
Describes the history and culture of the Native peoples of the regions on either side of the border with Mexico
Author: Gladys Amanda Reichard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Get Book
Book Description
Presents information gather from 1923-1925 on the Navajo Indians. Looks at Navajo life, the clans, marriage, property and inheritance, and folklore and beliefs.
