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Author
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"The Encyclopedia of Native Music recognizes the multifaceted contributions made by Native recording artists by tracing the history of their commercially released music. It provides an overview of the surprising abundance of recorded Native music while underlining its historical value, organized by genre for quick reference." "With almost 1,800 entries spanning over 100 years, this book leads readers from early performers of traditional songs like...
Author
Publisher
Consortium of Collective Consciousness
Language
English
Formats
Description
This revised and updated comprehensive travel guide examines North America's most sacred sites for spiritually attuned explorers. It includes detailed maps, drawings, and travel directions to important archaeological, geological, and historical destinations from coast to coast.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives." A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At nineteen, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called...
68) Only the valiant
Publisher
Republic Picture Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A Cavalry officer volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apaches in an effort to prove his loyalty to his men and the woman he loves.
Series
Arizona archaeologist volume no. 15
Publisher
Arizona Archaeological Society
Pub. Date
[between 0000 and 1984?]
Language
English
Description
A collection of archaeological papers examines the ceramics of ancient Indians of the Southwest.
73) Dreamkeeper
Publisher
Hallmark Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A century-old storyteller and his grandson, a troubled 17-year-old boy, embark on a cross-country journey toward self-discovery. Like Pete's wise tales themselves, Dreamkeeper is important and illuminating storytelling for the entire family.
74) Weedflower
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
76) Prominent Algonquian Tribes: The History of the Shawnee, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Chippewa, and Blackfeet
Author
Publisher
Createspace Independent Pub
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the tribes written by contemporaries *Includes bibliographies for further reading *Includes a table of contents Throughout the 19th century, American settlers pushing across the Western frontier came into contact with diverse American tribes, producing a series of conflicts ranging from the Great Plains to the Southwest, from the Trail of Tears to the Pacific Northwest. Indian leaders like Geronimo became feared...