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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Hosteen Klah	Franc Johnson Newcomb	Navaho medicine man and sand painter Hosteen Klah bridged the long span from the old days of tribal greatness and warfare to the new days of change and adjustment. Thus the story of Klah told here is…	OL1372166W
The Zunis	Alice K. Flanagan	Examines the history, culture, and society of the Zuni Indians, one of the groups of Pueblo Indians living in New Mexico.	OL15194770W
The Apache	Raymond Bial	Discusses the history, culture, beliefs, changing ways, and notable people of the Apache.	OL15834553W
Great cruelties have been reported	Richard Flint	"This book details the investigation into cruelties that Coronado and his men reportedly inflicted upon the Native peoples of the Southwest, delving deeper into the known copies of the investigation …	OL16714824W
Ishi in three centuries	Clifton B. Kroeber,Karl Kroeber,Karl Kroeber	Brings together a range of insightful and unsettling perspectives and the research to personalize our understanding of one of the famous Native Americans of the modern era - Ishi, the last Yahi. This…	OL16797550W
Photographing Navajos	Dale Sperry Mudge,Herbert John Benally,C. Stewart Doty	"In the late 1940s and early 1950s the great anthropological photographer John Collier Jr. made nearly one thousand photographs documenting Navajo life in Fruitland, New Mexico, near the Four Corners…	OL18425226W
Apache children and elders talk together	E. Barrie Kavasch	Explores the culture and traditions of the Apache people through the voices of Apache children and older people.	OL1848518W
Seeking The Center Place	Mark Varien	"The continuing work of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center has focused on community life in the central Mesa Verde region during the Great Pueblo period (A.D. 1150-1300). Researchers document the …	OL1964042W
Laguna pueblo	Lee Marmon	Contains primary source material.	OL19663675W
For our Navajo people	Peter Iverson	Contains primary source material.	OL19665678W
The lost world of the Old Ones	David Stuart Roberts	"An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In The Lost World of the Old Ones, David Roberts expa…	OL19668239W
Mesa of sorrows	Brooks, James	The Hopi community of Awat'ovi existed peacefully on Arizona's Antelope Mesa for generations. Then one bleak morning in the fall of 1700 raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat'ovi, slaug…	OL20020309W
Indians and Energy	Sherry L. Smith,Donald L. Fixico,Brian Frehner	317 p. ; 23 cm	OL21024882W
Tom Jeffords	Doug Hocking	xx, 202 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm	OL21829172W
Geronimo	Mike Leach	"An overview of the inspiring history of Apache chief Geronimo, with a look at the timeless strategies we can learn from his life, from legendary football coach Mike Leach"--	OL23323304W
Chasing Geronimo	Leonard Wood	This diary of Leonard Wood, a medical officer, tells the dramatic story of the last campaign against the Apache chief Geronimo. It is the only journal kept by anyone on that expedition. Under the…	OL2550748W
The Desert Smells Like Rain	Gary Paul Nabhan	"Longtime residents of the sonoran desert, the Tohono O'odham people have spent centuries living off the land - a land that most modern citizens of southern Arizona consider totally inhospitable. Eth…	OL2703676W
The Zuni man-woman	Will Roscoe	The Zuni Man-Woman focuses on the life of We'wha (1849-96), the Zuni who was perhaps the most famous berdache (an individual who combined the work and traits of both men and women) in American Indian…	OL2731782W
The captivity of the Oatman girls among the Apache and Mohave Indians	Royal B. Stratton	209 p. : 22 cm	OL3460279W
Fire in the mind	Johnson, George	Fire in the Mind is on one level a conventional--albeit exceptionally well-executed--work of science journalism. Johnson provides an up-to-the-minute survey of the most exciting and philosophically r…	OL3512913W