Novels: Indians
Armer, Laura Adams.
Dark Circle of Branches
. New York: Longman, Green, and Company, 1933.
Armer, Laura Adams.
Waterless Mountain
. New York: Montauk Book Manufacturing Company, 1931.
Borland, Hal.
When the Legends Die
. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1963.
Hillerman, Ton
y
.
A Thief of Time
. New York: Harper & Rowe, 1988.
Jackson, Helen Hunt.
Ramona
. New York: Avon Books, 1970.
James, J. Alison.
Sing for a Gentle Rain
. New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1990.
LaFarge, Oliver. Laughing Boy. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1929.
Novels: Explorers
Lea, Tom.
The Hands of Cantú
. Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, Ltd., 1964. Cantú, the trainer of Spanish Riding School horses, rescues strays from Indian hands.
Meredith, Robert and Smith, E. Brooks, eds.
Riding with Coronado
. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1964. From Pedro de Caste–eda’s eyewitness account of the exploration of the Southwest.
Indian Mythology
Caduto, Michael J. and Bruchac, Joseph.
Keepers of the Earth: Native
American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children
. Golden: Fulcrum, Inc., 1988. See resources for separate teachers guide.
Erdoes, Richard and Ortiz, Alfonso, eds.
American Indian Myths and
Legends
. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
Espinosa, Carmen Gertrudis.
The Freeing of the Deer, and Other New
Mexico Indian Myths
. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985.
Reed, Evelyn Dahl.
Coyote Tales from Indian Pueblos
. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 1988.
Resources
Bailey, Garrick and Bailey, Roberta Glenn.
A History of the Navajos
. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 1986.
Caduto, Michael J. and Bruchac, Joseph.
Keepers of the Earth: Teacher’s
Guide
. Golden: Fulcrum, Inc., 1988.
Crampton, C. Gregory.
The Zunis of C’bola
. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 1977.
Dobyns, Henry F. and Euler, Robert C.
The Navajo People
. Phoenix: Indian Tribal Series, 1972. Photographs and descriptions of modern Navajo life.
Dozier, Edward P.
The Pueblo Indians of North America
. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, 1970.
Fergusson, Erna.
Dancing Gods
:
Indian Ceremonials of New Mexico and
Arizona
. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1931.
Forbes, Jack D.
Apache, Navaho, and Spaniard
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. Forbes has written an eloquent introduction refuting the traditional view of Apache as violent aggressor.
Horgan, Paul.
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1954. Two volumes. Poetic and sweeping history.
Kavena, Juanita Tiger.
Hopi Cookery
. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1980.
Keegan, Marci Kay.
Mother Earth and Father Sky
. New York: Grossman Publishing, 1974. Photographs and charts of Navajo and Pueblo Indian life— prehistoric and modern.
Mails, Thomas E.
The People Called Apache
. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1974.
Matlock, Gary.
Enemy Ancestors: The Anasazi World with a Guide to
Sites
. Japan: Dai Nippon Northland Press, 1988. Photographs by Scott Warren. Extremely useful. Readily available information in non-technical language. Outstanding bibliography. Current.
Ortiz, Alfonso.
The Tewa World
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. Ortiz grew up in a Tewa pueblo.
Ortiz, Alfonso, ed., “Southwest, 1979.” Volume 9.
Handbook of North
American Indians
. William C. Sturtevant, general ed. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1979.
Available: Superintendent of Documents
US Government Printing Office
Washington, DC 20402
Ortiz, Alfonso, ed., “Southwest, 1983.” Volume 10.
Handbook of North
American Indians
. William C. Sturtevant, general ed. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1983.
Available: Superintendent of Documents
US Government Printing Office
Washington, DC 20402
Page, Susanne.
A Celebration of Being
. Flagstaff: Northland Publishing Company, 1989.
Scully, Vincent.
Pueblo
. New York: The Viking Press, 1972.
Scully, Vincent.
Pueblo Architecture of the Southwest
. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971.
Spicer, Edward.
Cycles of Conquest
. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1962. A classic.
Steckel, H. Henrietta.
Women of the Apache Nation
. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1991.
Terrell, John Upton.
Apache Chronicle
. New York: World Publishing Company, 1972.
Terrell, John Upton.
Pueblos, Gods, and Spaniards
. New York: The Dial Press, 1973.
Weber, David J. ed.
New Spain’s Far Northern Frontier: Essays on Spain
in the American West, 1540-1821
. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979.
TIMELINE
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Acquisition of Southwestern Lands by the United States
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Approximate locations of Precolombian Anasazi Cultural Areas
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Approximate Locations of Modern Indian Reservations in the Southwestern United States.
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