IN RED MAN'S LAND: a study of the American Indian. by Frances E. Leupp.
Leupp was an early U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs and had written government reports about relations with tribes. In this book his purpose was to deal with the Indian as "an individual as if introducing an old resident to new neighbors". Chapters therefore include "The Aboriginal Red Man". "The Red Man and the Government","The Red Man and His White Neighbor", "The Red Man and Our Social Order", and "The Red Man as  Teacher and Learner". Historical photographs showing Indians in camps, chiefs, maidens, homes. 161 pages.
ISBN: 0-87380-115-6. 1976 . Order #: RIGR1235 cloth$12.00.

 

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.

 

MIRACLE HILL: the story of a Navaho boy. Mitchell & Allen.
How the author was raised in the Indian way and then attempted to enter the white man's world--revealing character, family relationships, manners, struggles, worries, emotions. 248 pages. Originally published by University of Oklahoma at $7.95.
ISBN: 0-8061-1616-1. Order #: ZZTB6260 paper$8.95.

 

 

NAVAJO TRADER. by Gladwell Richardson.
Author was part of a family of Indian traders and himself spent 40 years on the Navajo Reservation managing posts. Here he describes numerous incidents in the region, including some at Kaibeto, Red Lake, Cameron, and others. Ways of the Indians and of the traders are revealed, as well as the economy of the region, involving sheep-raising, jewelry-making, weaving of rugs, trapping. There are mentions of burial customs and taboos, first hearing of a radio, witchcraft, petroglyphs, government Indian agents, and the scenic desert landscape with its storms and aridity. Photographs, 217 pages.
ISBN: 0-8165-1262-0. 2003. Order #:UARI4440 paper$22.95.

 

 

NAVAJO WEAVERS and NAVAJO SILVERSMITHS. Washington Matthews.
Reprint of two U.S. Bureau of Ethnology reports describing in detail weaving and silversmithing as observed in 1860s by Washington Matthews, a physician at Fort Wingate. 44 pages, illustrated.
ISBN: 978-0-910584-07-4. Order #: FILT0470 paper$4.00.

 

 

NAVAJO NATIVE DYES: their preparation and use. Nonabah G. Bryan.
Collection of authentic recipes for rendering dyes from native Southwest plants for dyeing wool for rugs. Includes guide to identifying plants. Plants to use, dyeing wool for Navajo rugs. 36 drawings, 75 pages.
Check stock.ISBN: 0-910584-57-5. Order #: FILT0490 paper$5.00.

 

 

 

TAPESTRIES IN SAND: the spirit of Indian sandpainting. by David Villasenor.
Legends and meanings of serpents, swastikas, rainbows, other Navajo symbols. Explains the inner meaning of some 30 sandpaintings, such as the Whirling Rainbows, Chiricahua Sun Sandpainting, and Big Thunder.14 color illustrations, 112 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-911010-22-0. Order #: NAGR0948 paper$13.95.

 

 

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ACROSS ARIZONA IN 1883. by Anonymous.
Reprinted from Harper's Monthly, here is an eyewitness account--gathered via train, stage, horse, and on foot--of southern Arizona. The Indians are described, the wild element at Tombstone is reported, and the mission church of San Xavier del Bac is depicted. It was a time of cowboys, City Marshall Wyatt Earp and gambler "Doc" Holliday, and Apaches--the wild frontier days of Arizona long before it became a state. Period engravings. 16 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-011-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-011-9. Order #: VIST0011 paper$3.95.



KAIBETO MEMORIES: a trader's daughter remembers growing up on the Navajo Reservation at Kaibeto Trading Post in remote northern Arizona 1936-1960. by Elizabeth Anne Jones Dewveall.
Even today Kaibeto does not appear as a place on many modern maps. When Elizabeth Anne was growing up in this remote desert region of northeastern Arizona roads were still evolving from dirt tracks and passage was not infrequently blocked by drifting sand, unpredictable floods in otherwise dry washes, or snowstorms, with pavement dozens and dozens of miles away in all directions and little development of any kind along the routes. The trading post, however, had already been a hub for supplies for the local population for 22 years when Elizabeth Anne started her life there as daughter of traders Ralph and Julia Jones. Elizabeth Anne grew up as a single child at this remote outpost, with Navajo Indian children as playmates and an occasional visit by relatives from distant places. In time she would learn some Navajo words, how to trade the post's goods in an economy with little cash, and something of a culture not her own. The post took in hides, wool, silver and turquoise jewelry, woven blankets as items of exchange and often relied on a pawn system, storing native treasures as collateral. Much of her account, however, is of stories of the native people who came to the post and of their joys, trials, and tribulations as they managed their lives with ingenuity and perseverance. The stories Elizabeth Anne tells provide a glimpse of life at this trading post, of which little has been written before, and by extension of what life might have been like at the many other trading post throughout the West that linked populations through an economic setting. 120 pages, illustrations, map. See sample pages, illustrations.
Paper edition: ISBN: 978-0-8946-103-1. Order #: VIST0103 paper$14.95.
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