"An unprecedented account of the shaman's world and the way it is entered."Stanley Krippner, PhD, coauthor of Personal Mythology: The Psychology of Your Evolving Self and Healing State.Black Elk opens the Lakota sacred hoop.

    In The Dark Wind, a seemingly routine stakeout at a vandalized windmill thrusts Chee into the center of a dangerous web of drugs, witchcraft, and betrayal. And in The Ghostway, a felon relocated under the Federal Witness Relocation Program sets off a chain of treachery and killings, and only Chee has the knowledge of the people and the landscape to understand the clues.

    With magnificent photographs and powerful words, the Wisdomkeepers share their innermost thoughts and feelings, their dreams and visions, their jokes and laughter, their healing remedies and apocalyptic prophecies and -- above all -- their humanity, which shines through every page of Wisdomkeepers. This is their book. They are the Elders, the Old Ones, the fragile repositories of sacred ways and natural wisdom going back millennia -- yet never more relevant than today.

    Native American Portraits presents a factual, anecdotal, and visual history of the evolving artistry and technology of a century of photographers, as well as of the tribes whose vanishing trappings and traditions they sought to capture with their craft. The photographers -- William Henry Jackson, Camillus Fly, Carleton Watkins, and Lee Moorhouse, among scores of others -- were intrepid adventurers, fiercely committed to their work, who hauled hundreds of pounds of photographic equipment across the mountains and faced many dangers; their subjects -- including such important warriors as Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, Red Cloud, Geronimo, and Chief Gall (who led the Indians to victory against Custer) -- appear venerable, dignified, and beaten. Fascinating and provocative, this richly illustrated and painstakingly annotated volume documents the intersection of photography in its infancy and Native American culture in precipitous decline.

    Known to these people as Nch'i-Wana (the Big River), it forms the spine of their land, the core of their habitat.At the turn of the century, the Sahaptin speakers of the mid-Columbia lived in an area between Celilo Falls and Priest Rapids in eastern Oregon and Washington. They were hunters and gatherers who survived by virtue of a detailed, encyclopedic knowledge of their environment. Eugene Hunn's authoritative study focuses on Sahaptin ethnobiology and the role of the natural environment in the lives and beliefs of their descendants who live on or near the Yakima, Umatilla, and Warm Springs reservations.

    The first three chapters establish a firm foundation by introducing recommended tools and their uses, defining the terminology, and explaining the most successful methods of each step in the construction. Beginners will find the frequent illustrations helpful, so the methods can easily be understood. Those experienced at Seminole patchwork will probably pick up a new tip or technique in Chapter 3 that will make their work more accurate, faster, or easier. Detailed instructions for wonderful projects, as well as suggestions for using Seminole patchwork in your own creations, are contained in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 presents recipes for 56 Seminole patchwork designs, making it a valuable reference section. The techniques for mirror image and graphed designs in Chapter 6 are a bit challenging and are included for the patchwork artists wanting to expand on the creative possibilities of Seminole patchwork. Whether your style is traditional or contemporary, there is a place for the Seminole technique in your patchwork.

    . . . A rich compendium that deals with oral traditions, cultural history, and the arts, The Pueblo Storyteller is a treasure-house for students of Pueblo culture and history." —Journal of Arizona History"Storyteller dolls of pottery, created by Helen Cordero have swept the Indian art market and are now created by at least 175 potters. This beautiful book covers the antecedents of the form as well as the contemporary scene." —Books of the Southwest

    The photographer has recorded them as they are today, recalling their youth.

    Working from innumerable primary documents in various Texan and Mexican archives, Martin Salinas has compiled data on more than six dozen named groups that inhabited the area in the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Depending on available information, he reconstructs something of their history, geographical range and migrations, demography, language, and culture. He also offers general information on various unnamed groups of Indians, on the lifeways of the indigenous peoples, and on the relations between the Indian groups and the colonial Spanish missions in the region.