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Book Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit

Download or read book Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit written by Leslie Marmon Silko and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit is a collection of twenty-two powerful and indispensable essays on Native American life, written by one of America's foremost literary voices. Bold and impassioned, sharp and defiant, Leslie Marmon Silko's essays evoke the spirit and voice of Native Americans. Whether she is exploring the vital importance literature and language play in Native American heritage, illuminating the inseparability of the land and the Native American people, enlivening the ways and wisdom of the old-time people, or exploding in outrage over the government's long-standing, racist treatment of Native Americans, Silko does so with eloquence and power, born from her profound devotion to all that is Native American. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit is written with the fire of necessity. Silko's call to be heard is unmistakable—there are stories to remember, injustices to redress, ways of life to preserve. It is a work of major importance, filled with indispensable truths—a work by an author with an original voice and a unique access to both worlds.

Book Growing Up and Looking Out

Download or read book Growing Up and Looking Out written by Katherine Augustine and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine Augustine is an extraordinary person. This book tells Katherine’s story in her own words. It is drawn entirely from a selection of her writings in various publications, complete copies of which are available in archives in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The book is in two parts. The first, “My Life From Laguna Pueblo to Albuquerque” is Katherine’s autobiography from her childhood to the start of her nursing career. The second, “Tales My Grandmother Told Me and Being Laguna,” is a collection of Laguna Pueblo stories she learned as a child and personal observations of feast days and public ceremonies. For over thirty years she wrote stories about her life and observations of growing up at Laguna Pueblo, along with articles on current events, for several publications; these included the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center newsletter Pueblo Horizons, a column for the now defunct evening newspaper the Albuquerque Tribune, articles for the Albuquerque Laguna Colony Newsletter, and Round the Roundhouse, the New Mexico State Employees newsletter. Photographs in the first section are from Katherine’s family album, while images illustrating stories from Laguna Pueblo are derived from photographs of prehistoric art in the collection of Paul R. Secord.

Book American Indians and the Urban Experience

Download or read book American Indians and the Urban Experience written by Susan Lobo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Pueblo Indian Folk stories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Fletcher Lummis
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1992-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803279384
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Pueblo Indian Folk stories written by Charles Fletcher Lummis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles F. Lummis's profound understanding of Indian and Spanish culture in the American Southwest is reflected in this collection of thirty-two myths centering around the Pueblo of Isleta on the Rio Grande. In adapting these traditional oral tales, Lummis drew on his experience of living at Isleta and his familiarity with the native language. originally published in 1894, Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories is as enchanting as ever. Seven elders seated around a campfire take turns telling about Antelope Boy. the fabled coyote, the man who married the moon, the snake-girls, the sobbing pine, the feathered barbers, the hero twins, the revengeful fawns, and other natural and supernatural entities. Beautifully wrought, these wisdom and initiation stories speak to all who have not lost their sense of wonder.

Book Pueblo Indian Agriculture

Download or read book Pueblo Indian Agriculture written by James A. Vlasich and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a chronological account of Pueblo Indian agriculture, examining its refinements, challenges and changes up to the present, detailing its sophisticated irrigation systems and crop production.

Book Building a New Biocultural Synthesis

Download or read book Building a New Biocultural Synthesis written by Alan H. Goodman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998-10-28 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVShows the potential for a reintegrated, critical, and politically relevant biocultural anthropology /div

Book Pueblo Indian Religion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1939-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803287358
  • Pages : 622 pages

Download or read book Pueblo Indian Religion written by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1939-01-01 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich religious beliefs and ceremonials of the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico were first synthesized and compared by ethnologist Elsie Clews Parsons. Prodigious research and a quarter-century of fieldwork went into her 1939 encyclopedic two-volume work, Pueblo Indian Religion. The author gives an integrated picture of the complex religious and social life in the pueblos, including Zuni, Acoma, Laguna, Taos, Isleta, Sandia, Jemez, Cochiti, Santa Clara, San Felipe, Santa Domingo, San Juan, and the Hopi villages. In volume I she discusses shelter, social structure, land tenure, customs, and popular beliefs. Parsons also describes spirits, cosmic notions, and a wide range of rituals. The cohesion of spiritual and material aspects of Pueblo culture is also apparent in volume II, which presents an extensive body of solstice, installation, initiation, war, weather, curing, kachina, and planting and harvesting ceremonies, as well as games, animal dances, and offerings to the dead. A review of Pueblo ceremonies from town to town considers variations and borrowings. Today, a half century after its original publication, Pueblo Indian Religion remains central to studies of Pueblo religious life.

Book Burea of American Ethnology

Download or read book Burea of American Ethnology written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "List of publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology (comp. by Frederick Webb Hodge)":

Book The Pueblo

Download or read book The Pueblo written by Mary Englar and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the history and current situation of the Pueblo Indians.

Book The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians

Download or read book The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians written by John Peabody Harrington and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Turquoise Ledge

Download or read book The Turquoise Ledge written by Leslie Marmon Silko and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original and poetic self-portrait from one of America's most acclaimed writers. Leslie Marmon Silko's new book, her first in ten years, combines memoir with family history and reflections on the creatures and beings that command her attention and inform her vision of the world, taking readers along on her daily walks through the arroyos and ledges of the Sonoran desert in Arizona. Silko weaves tales from her family's past into her observations, using the turquoise stones she finds on the walks to unite the strands of her stories, while the beauty and symbolism of the landscape around her, and of the snakes, birds, dogs, and other animals that share her life and form part of her family, figure prominently in her memories. Strongly influenced by Native American storytelling traditions, The Turquoise Ledge becomes a moving and deeply personal contemplation of the enormous spiritual power of the natural world-of what these creatures and landscapes can communicate to us, and how they are all linked. The book is Silko's first extended work of nonfiction, and its ambitious scope, clear prose, and inventive structure are captivating. The Turquoise Ledge will delight loyal fans and new readers alike, and it marks the return of the unique voice and vision of a gifted storyteller.

Book The Pueblo Imagination

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lee Marmon
  • Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780807066140
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book The Pueblo Imagination written by Lee Marmon and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evocative photographs celebrating the rich culture and dramatic landscapes of the Laguna Pueblo, the native people of the U.S. Southwest. Lee Marmon is America's most renowned Native American photographer and yet this is the first book to showcase his breathtaking photography. This book combined Mr. Marmon's award-winning photographs celebrating the Laguna Pueblo - their distinctive landscapes, their traditions and history - with equally gorgeous prose and poetry by three of our most celebrated Native American writers: Lee's daughter, the novelist Leslie Marmon Silko, and the poets Joy Harpo and Simon Ortiz. With each flash of the camera, Lee Marmon captured a piece of Native American history; this book preserves that precious legacy.The Pueblo Imagination will be lavishly produced, with the highest quality reproductions, including some seventy black-and-white photos printed in duotone and eight pages of arresting color photographps. The text will flow in prose and verse from the images, setting the stage and capturing in words the history preserved in Lee Marmon's unforgettable images.

Book Final Report to the American Indian Policy Review Commission  study provision  Report on BIA management practices to the American Indian policy review commission

Download or read book Final Report to the American Indian Policy Review Commission study provision Report on BIA management practices to the American Indian policy review commission written by United States. American Indian policy review commission and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Book Roadside New Mexico

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Pike
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780826331182
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book Roadside New Mexico written by David Pike and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people, geological features, and historic events that have made New Mexico what it is today are commemorated in over 350 historic markers along the state's roads. This guide is designed to fill in the gaps and answer the questions those markers provoke.

Book Yellow Woman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780813520056
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Yellow Woman written by Leslie Marmon Silko and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambiguous and unsettling, Silko's "Yellow Woman" explores one woman's desires and changes--her need to open herself to a richer sensuality. Walking away from her everyday identity as daughter, wife and mother, she takes possession of transgressive feelings and desires by recognizing them in the stories she has heard, by blurring the boundaries between herself and the Yellow Woman of myth.