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AMERICA'S ANCiENT TREASURES. by Franklin Folsom and Mary Elting Folsom.
Guide to U.S. and Canada archaeological sites and museums of prehistoric Indian life, with profiles of the museums and collections that interpret America's aboriginal past. Discover the America of an earlier era--where the prehistoric Indians came from, how they clothed and fed themselves, and what they left as evidence of their art, religion, architecture, and daily life. Illustrated with drawings and photographs, 448 large-format pages, index, glossary, suggested readings.
ISBN: 0-8263-0651-9. 1983. Order #: UNNM1630 paper$18.95.

ANCESTRAL PASSIONS: the Leakey family and the quest for humankind's beginnings--cloth. by Virginia Morell.
Biography of family making unique and enduring contributions to knowledge of human origins through excavations in Africa as the cradle of the human species--with sidelights on the development of the science of paleoanthroplogy over an eventful half-century. Notes, bibliography, 640 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-684-80192-2. 1995. Order #: SISC6038 cloth$30.00.

ANCESTRAL PASSIONS: the Leakey family and the quest for humankind's beginnings--paper. by Virginia Morell.
Biography of family making unique and enduring contributions to knowledge of human origins through excavations in Africa as the cradle of the human species--with sidelights on the development of the science of paleoanthropology over an eventful half-century. Notes, bibliography, 640 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-684-82470-1. 1996. Order #: SISC8852 paper$16.00.

APACHE LEGENDS: song of the Wind Dancer. Lou Cuevas.
Tales from full-blooded Apache Indian. The author's vivid narratives capture the imagination and transport the reader into the world of the ancient American Southwest. Insights into the ancient spirit people and legends. Each legend explains nature, its manifestations, and human behavior that is taught to Apache children so they might learn to respect the power of life. Interview with the author, Lou Cuevas: My grandfather was a full-blooded Apache and my grandmother was Spanish, a curandera, a Spanish medicine woman. I started about 15 years ago trying to recall the stories they told me. I went to various members of my family and asked them if they remembered the stories. It took me 12 years to assemble them. Illustrations, 128 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-87961-219-1. Order #: NAGR0685 paper$12.95.

APE MAN: the story of human evolution. by Rd Caird with Dr. Robert Foley.
Explores our origins: traits making us human, our brains, use of language, art. Where did we come from? What features set us apart from near relatives? What made us stand up straight and walk on two legs? Why did we develop our big and powerful brains? When and why did we start to use language? What made us begin to create pictures, sculptures and symbols? What makes us human? What has happened to the many other human-like species from the past and why did we continue instead of them? Considers fossil and archaeological evidence in answering these and other questions. Color photos, 192 large-format pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN: 0-671-50146-1. 1994. Order #: MACM8533 cloth$30.00.

A BAG OF BONES: Legends of the Wintu Indians of Northern California. by Masson.
15 stories told by old Wintu native Americans from group who lived along western Sacramento Valley of California. The myths provide an intimate view of Wintu value systems, patterns of perception and thinking, kinship systems and philosophy. The legends were also used to explain natural phenomena. Hills. rivers and even particular rock formations held a special significance to the Wintu who grew up in the area." 10 illustrations, 140 pages. Covers damaged.
ISBN: 0-911010-26-2. Order #: NAGR0951 paper$12.95.

THE BIG MISSOURI WINTER COUNT. by Roberta Carkeek Cheney.
Records 131 years of Sioux life--1796 to 1926, portrayed on an Indian hide calendar. Explains the meanings of the pictorial entries on the hide--years when a chief died, the stars fell, a French trader arrived, battles with other tribes, visit to the U. S. president, enlistment of "braves" into U.S. Army in World War I, and more for each year.. Illustrated, 48 pages, bibliography..
ISBN: 0-89761-081-6. Order #: NAGR0943 paper$6.95.

CAJUN BOY: the story of Acadiana. Sonnier.
Migration of hardy French-Canadian pioneers to bayous of Louisiana. 91 pages.
ISBN: 0-682-49519-0. 1980. Order #: EXPO0445cloth$29.00.

CANYON DE CHELLY IN PICTURES: the continuing story (AZ). Hunter.
Cliffside dwellings in the canyon of this Arizona national park. Once inhabited by Anasazi and now by Navajo Native Americans. 48 large-format pages, color illustrations.
ISBN: 0-88714-145-5. 1999. First printing. Order #: KCPU8007 paper$8.95.

DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA: evolution and the meanings of life. by Daniel C. Dennett.
Demonstrates power of theory of evolution and how that idea impacts our traditional view of our place in the universe. Darwin's idea of evolution by natural selection has been the focus of controversy for more than a century. Here current controversies are laid out about the origin of life, punctuated equilibrium, sociobiology the evolution of language and culture, and evolutionary ethics. Exposes philosophical--even religious--yearnings that have distorted disputes among scientists and laypeople alike and challenges the view of some famous scientists. Illustrated, 587 pages.
ISBN: 0-684-80290-2. 1995. Order #: SISC6088 cloth$30.00.

THE DAWN OF THE WORLD: myths and tales of the Miwok Indians of California. by C. Hart Merriam.
Stories collected from Miwok Indian peoples at the turn of the century--at a time when original cultural memories could still be recounted. Provides a special view of the cultural and philosophical ways of today's Miwok ancestors. These tales were related by Miwok elders usually in the ceremonial roundhouse at night by firelight and constitute the religious history of the tribe. Included are creation myths, accounts of the First People, of beings who antedated humans, and tales about animals, death and ghosts, witches and giants, and natural phenomena. Illustrations, 283 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-832-8193-5.1993. Order #: UNNE 2722 paper$9.95.

THE EARTHSHAPERS. by Speerstra.
Story of Mound Builder Indian culture of Mississippi River valley. Follows Yellow Moon, a girl of twelve, through the months of a year, in daily life, migrations, and tribal festivals. An archaeologically authentic novel about an ancient native North American culture called Mound Builders. The name derives from the thousands of earth mounds they raised, primarily as burial sites, throughout the eastern and Midwestern United States. Mound excavations have revealed a wealth of information about Mound Builders: they were a peaceful, highly religious people who conducted a wide trade in items such as copper from Lake Superior and seashells from the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. This is the story of the Hopewellian Mounds which are spread throughout the Mississippi basin and into western New York. Two sites in this area are mentioned--the Grave Creek Mound in West Virginia which rises 70 feet with a 300-foot diameter and the Serpent Mound in Ohio which winds and curls for almost a quarter mile. illustrations, 80p.
ISBN: 978-0-87961-109-5. Order #: NAGR0956 paper$6.95.

THE EVOLUTION OF RACISM: human differences and the use and abuse of science. by Pat Shipman.
Explores this most inflammatory subject that exposes the frailty of human thinking and points a rational way to understand what a human is and how because of our intermingling due to migration, war, exploration that human races are not separate species and cannot evolve into them. Notes, bibliography, 316 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-671-75460-2. 1994. Order #: SISC5038 cloth$23.00.

HOUSES BENEATH THE ROCK: the Anasazi of Canyon de Chelly and Navajo National Monument. by David Grant Noble.
Essays by noted archaeologists and historians give insight into Native American inhabitants of this region and their way of life in their cliffside and cave dwellings. Discusses rock art, basketry and artifacts, and the last stand of Navajos against Kit Carson's removal from their home. Photographs, map, 64 large-format pages, saddle-stitched.
ISBN: 0-941270-72-6. 1986. Order #: GISM1859 paper$8.95.

I IS FOR INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST: the story behind the scenery (AZ/NM). Rosen & Baird.
Children's story telling of the Southwest character and heritage. Large-format pages, color illustratrions.
Inventory =2.ISBN: 0-88714-211-7. 2000. Order #: KCPU8108 paper $9.95.

INDIAN DESIGNS: 48 patterns from Southwest (Hopi, Acoma, Navajo, Apache, Aztec, Papago, Zuni, more. by David and Jean Villasenor.
A collection of dozens of striking black-and-white Native American patterns (for such things as rainbird spirits, flute players, Father Sky, and turtles). The authentic, exciting 8-1/2" x 11" Southwest Indian graphics beg to be reproduced through appliqué, fabric painting, needlepoint, or any of a number of other crafts projects. Illustrations, 48 pages, large format.
ISBN: 978-0-87961-122-4. Order #: NAGR1974 paper$10.95.

INDIAN LIFE IN THE TEXAS BIG BEND. by Museum of the Big Bend.
Beginner's introduction to archeology; children's activity book; summarizes history of native Americans in Big Bend National park, Texas. Recognizing archaeological sites, native clothing, pottery, basket weaving, shelter, rock art. Illustrated, 24 large-format pages.
ISBN: None. 1978. Order #: BIBE0174 paper$9.95.

INDIAN SANDPAINTING OF THE GREATER SOUTHWEST. by David Villasenor.
Religious-medical function of Navajo symbols: Swastika, Thunder, Whirling Rainbow, more. Color pictures of sandpaintings with their interpretations of the ceremonial significance. Sandpainting is a very old Southwest Indian Art in which the Medicine Man "paints" loosely upon the ground, or, on some occasions, upon buckskin or cloth, by letting the sands flow with control and skill through his sensitized fingers. He may use also, in conjunction with the sands of natural color, corn meal, flower pollen, powdered roots and bark, in the execution of this ritual. Because of the sacred nature of this ceremony, the sandpainting is begun, finished, used, and destroyed within a twelve hour period (either night or day). 16 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-911010-92-3. Order #: NAGR0949 paper$4.95.

INDIAN TALK: hand signals of the North American Indians. by Iron Eyes Cody.
Guide to silent language used by Plains tribes for centuries. The North American continent was once populated by hundreds of Indian tribes who all spoke different languages. An incredible sign language developed whereby Indians who spoke different tongues were able to effectively communicate without saying a word. Alphabetically, 246 words, phrases, and counting methods of 'Indian Sign Language' are photographically depicted. Sign language was primarily a mechanism by which Plains groups could conduct trade activities. Sign language deals with ideas rather than individual words. Each sign or idea unit must be used in proper sequence and context, and with proper accent and delivery: the sign for 'question' may mean why, where, what, who, how many, or can you, will you, depending on the context in which it is used. The sign for 'eat' may mean 'to eat' or 'food.' 150illustrations, 112 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-911010-82-4. Order #: NAGR4543 paper$10.95.

INDIANCRAFT. by McIntosh/Shell.
Clear, concise instructions for acquiring materials and making many popular Native American handicrafts. Basic designs for both the plains and woodland Indians, instructions for making both circular and straight leather strippers, suggestions on where to find rawhide, leather, fur, and wood. But the title's major emphasis is to present construction details for such things as the warbonnet and its carrying case, headbands, roach headdresses, men's leather and ribbon shirts, moccasins, chokers, breastplates, bead and quill work, gorgets and several types of necklaces. Covered as well are instructions for making bows and arrows, decorated scabbards, and Hopi rabbit sticks as well as the throwing stick. Includes items associated with the dance and social gatherings: anklets, dance bustles, women's cloth dance dresses, dance shawls, beaded baseball hats, the fan, cuffs, flutes, bullroarers, and the ceremonial lance. Instructions for the construction of both traditional garments as well as those in contemporary vogue. 144 pages. Fully illustrated.
ISBN: 978-0-87961-171-2. Order #: NAGR9412 paper$12.95.

INTO THE HEART: one man's pursuit of love and knowledge among the Yanomana. by Kenneth Good.
Archeologist's account of living with southern Venezuela tribe for 12 years and learning their customs and methods of survival, courtship, hunting, warring, and drug rituals. And his marriage to Yarima, one of the tribe. Photos,349 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-671-72874-1. 1991. Order #: SISC7159 cloth$22.95.

IT WILL LIVE FOREVER: traditional Yosemite Indian acorn preparation. by Bev Ortiz.
Gathering, drying, storing, pounding, winnowing, sifting, leaching, and cooking--including Julia Parker's recipe. Historical photographs and modern ones that show Julia Parker in multiple steps preparing acorns for cooking. 158 pages.
ISBN: 978-0930588-45-8. 1996. /Order #: HEYD9707 paper$50.00.

MAKING SILENT STONES SPEAK: human evolution and the dawn of technology--cloth. by Kathy D. Schick & Nicholas Toth.
Latest thinking on human origins. Authors reconstruct the lives of our human ancestors, starting with discoveries in archaeological sites in many areas of the world to show how early stone tools were made, and thus how technology is an important factor in human evolution. But human behaviors have been as important as biology. 100 photographs and drawings, 352 pages, index.
ISBN:0-671-69371-9. 1993. Order #: SISC3514 cloth$25.00.

MAKING SILENT STONES SPEAK: human evolution and the dawn of technology--paper. Schick & Toth.
Latest thinking on human origins. Authors reconstruct the lives of our human ancestors, starting with discoveries in archaeological sites in many areas of the world to show how early stone tools were made, and thus how technology is an important factor in human evolution. But human behaviors have been as important as biology. 100 photographs and drawings, 352 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-671-87538-8. 1993. Order #: SISC6407 paper$13.00.

MESA VERDE: the story behind the scenery (CO). Martin.
Prehistoric Anasazi Indian dwellings tucked under cliff rims in this Southwest Colorado National park. Color photos, 48 large-format pages.
ISBN 0-88714-075-0. 1994. Second printing. Order #: KCPU4072 paper$8.95.

MONUMENT VALLEY: the story behind the scenery (AZ). Den Dooven.
The desert landscape of unusual rock formations and story of the past Indian people who have lived there, and of the present ones who still do. Author's handwritten note on page 7.
ISBN: 978-0-88714-219-2. 2011. Thirteenth printing. Order #: KCPU4975 paper$11.95.

SALINAS: archaeology, history, prehistory. Edited by David Grant Noble.
National monument in New Mexico includes pueblo Indian and Spanish mission sites of Gran Quivira, Quarai, and Abo. Spanish efforts here to gain riches from silver and to spread their faith failed and neither they nor the Indians survived. 'though their missions still stand as empty shells and there are remnants of the pueblo towns. Now a national monument, the story is told of the native Americans beginning at least 10,000 years ago as various peoples dominated the area. Rock art is discussed, with several photographs, and there are the stories of the Pueblo Revolt and of Bernardo Gruber and a superstition he promoted to his dismay. Illustrated, maps, 40 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-941270-78-5 1982. Order #: ANCI8013 paper$8.95.

SALINAS: archaeology, history, prehistory. Edited by David Grant Noble.
National monument in New Mexico includes pueblo Indian and Spanish mission sites of Gran Quivira, Quarai, and Abo. Spanish efforts here to gain riches from silver and to spread their faith failed and neither they nor the Indians survived. 'though their missions still stand as empty shells and there are remnants of the pueblo towns. Now a national monument, the story is told of the native Americans beginning at least 10,000 years ago as various peoples dominated the area. Rock art is discussed, with several photographs, and there are the stories of the Pueblo Revolt and of Bernardo Gruber and a superstition he promoted to his dismay. Illustrated, maps, 40 large-format pages.
ISBN: 978-0-941270-78-6. 2009. Order #: GISM1852 paper$9.95.

A SKETCH OF GRAND CANYON PREHISTORY. by Anne Trinkle Jones & Robert C. Euler.
Overview of early native Americans--pottery, dwellings, rock art, foods. Archaeological evidence from caves tells of split-twig figurines made some 3,000 to 4,000 years ago by the people who lived here at that time. Abundant circular stone mounds remain from ancestral mescal roasting Also tells of the lifeways of more recent inhabitants such as the Tusayan pueblo settlement of about 1150 A.D. on the south canyon rim, of petroglyphs and pottery, and of almost-modern and modern Paitue and Havasupai peoples. Photos, drawings, 15 pages.
ISBN: None 1979. Order #: GRCA0572paper$9.95.

SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN ARTS & CRAFTS (AZ/NM). by Tom Bahti and Mark Bahti.
Come to know painting, silverwork, turquoise, bead-work, pottery, baskets, Navajo sandpainting, fetishes, Hopi katsinas, and Navajo rugs. 9x12, 64 pages, 100 color photos, 3 maps/diagrams.
ISBN: 978-0-88714-095-2. 2011. Sixteenth printing. Order #: KCPU8080 paper$12.95.

SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN CEREMONIALS (AZ/NM). by Tom Bahti and Mark Bathi.
Learn of the native ceremonies still being performed by the Indians of the Southwest as tribute to their way of life and the strength of their religious beliefs. 9x12, 64 pages, 70 color photos & 1 map.
ISBN: -088714-096-3. 2007. Thirteenth printing. Order #: KCPU8081 paper$12.95.

SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN POTTERY (AZ/NM). Hucko.
Potters and their styles from the pueblo towns of the Southwest. 64 large-format pages, color illustratrions.
Inventory =1. ISBN: 0-88714-148-X. 1999. Order# KCPU4262 paper$12.95.

SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN TRIBES (AZ/NM). by Tom Bahti and Mark Bahti.
Become acquainted with 39 Southwestern Indian cultures--their histories, governments, and separate fascinating cultures and celebrations. 9x12, 80 pages, 110 color photos & 5 maps/diagrams.
ISBN: 978-0-88714-097-6. 2010. Eighteenth printing. Order #: KCPU8082 paper$12.95.

SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN WEAVING (AZ/NM). by Mark Bahti.
Discover Southwestern Indian weaving traditions. This book covers it all--traditional rugs, basketry, and clothing. Learn how sheep have been a cornerstone of Navajo life for centuries. 9x12, 48 pages, 68 color photos.
ISBN: 0-88714-212-5. 2004. Second printing. Order #: KCPU8109 paper$12.95.

ZUNI FETISHES: expanded edition (NM). by Frank Hamilton Cushing and Mark Bahti.
Cushing's classic book is incorporated into this expanded edition which presents modern fetishes by the Zuni Native American people of New Mexico and explains the cultural significance of the fetish, the Zuni philosophy, their worship of animals, origin stories, their prey gods. The fetishes, little stone carvings made of serpentine rock, marble, arrowhead, turquoise, clam shell, limestone, quartz, alabaster, and other materials were fashioned in stylized shapes of bear, wolf, eagle, rabbit, deer, coyote, lion. bighorn, bobcat, serpent. 9x12, 48 pages, 59 color photos.
ISBN: 0-88714-144-7. 1999. First printing. Order #: KCPU8158 paper$12.95.

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ROCK ART OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN by Campbell Grant.
This book surveys the myriad rock paintings and carvings--numbering possibly some 15,000 sites--pecked into and painted onto boulders and rock surfaces throughout North America by its aboriginal artists. With photographs and drawings on virtually every page, this book presents the rock artists through the work they left--illustrating their extraordinarily diverse techniques, styles, and subjects. Meanings of the designs are discussed, and their roles in hunting or puberty rites interpreted. Major rock art sites are located, and methods of recording, preserving, and dating them are indicated. Author Grant has done rock art books on the Chumash Indians, the Coso Range, and Canyon de Chelly. 192 pages + 16 page color insert. Large-format. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-084-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-084-3. Order #: VIST0084 paper$12.95.

THE SOUTHERN UTE INDIANS OF EARLY COLORADO. by Verner Z. Reed.
An early account of these inhabitants of southwestern Colorado, living in one of the most magnificent spots of the American continent. Aboriginal customs were still much practiced at the time this material was first published, in 1893. We are told of face painting, of nomadic lifeways, of matriarchal lineage of families, of medicine men, of wars with other Indian tribes, of courtship and family customs, of religion, and of the variance between Indian custom and white man's law. Reprinted from The Californian Illustrated Magazine. Illustrations of shepherding, horses, war costumes, camp, family, chief, dance, and more. 20 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-067-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-067-6. Order #: VIST0067 paper$3.95.

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