Life in a narrow place

Hirst, Stephen

D. McKay Co.

A ruined hunting shelter, a displaced Native American woman and the planetary weight of the U.S. government: the gunpowder that ignite Lauren Greasewater’s War. Set in the 1970s, this historical novel traces an urban Indian woman’s quest from the streets of New York to the canyons of the Southwest ﬁnding her way back to the community of her birth to reinvent herself as Lauren Greasewater. Caught between two dissonant worlds, she turns a cultural misunderstanding into an armed conﬂict that captures national attention.In her effort to save the place she was born, Lauren Greasewater’s motley defenders see a struggle for recognition and a chance to regain their humanity. The war that ensues brings together the Vietnam-wracked Havasupai man Lauren loves, Lauren’s strange wizard namesake Gwi Swaada, and her way into the Native American world.The updated text includes a diagram of Lauren's family and a glossary.

Lauren Greasewater's War

Literature & Fiction

United States

Muuso Press

I Am the Grand Canyon is the story of the Havasupai people. From their origins among the first group of Indians to arrive in North America some 20,000 years ago to their epic struggle to regain traditional lands taken from them in the nineteenth century, the Havasupai have a long and colorful history. The story of this tiny tribe once confined to a toosmall reservation depicts a people with deep cultural ties to the land, both on their former reservation below the rim of the Grand Canyon and on the surrounding plateaus. In the spring of 1971, the federal government proposed incorporating still more Havasupai land into Grand Canyon National Park. At hearings that spring, Havasupai Tribal Chairman Lee Marshall rose to speak. “I heard all you people talking about the Grand Canyon,” he said. “Well, you’re looking at it. I am the Grand Canyon!” Marshall made it clear that Havasu Canyon and the surrounding plateau were critical to the survival of his people; his speech laid the foundation for the return of thousands of acres of Havasupai land in 1975. I Am the Grand Canyon is the story of a heroic people who refused to back down when facing overwhelming odds. They won, and today the Havasupai way of life quietly continues in the Grand Canyon and on the surrounding plateaus.

I Am the Grand Canyon: The Story of the Havasupai People

History

Americas

Grand Canyon Association

Havsuw 'Baaja details the origins and early times of the Havasupai people of the Grand Canyon and relates trends in their recent history to currents in American life. The book speaks a unique language where the author uses voices of Havasupai storytellers to emphasize turning points in their past. "A Season on the Plateau," the book's pivotal central section, offers its most compelling chapter; a novella dramatizing the closing years of Havasupai traditional life.

Havsuw 'Baaja: People of the Blue Green Water

Havasupai Tribal Council

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