This coloring book covers everything from raising sheep to wool dyeing to specific rug and blanket designs. Learn about various Navajo designs while coloring a Wide Ruins, Teec Nos Pos or Two Grey Hills rug.

Navajo Rugs and Blankets: A Coloring Book

Chuck Mobley

Rio Nuevo Publishers

In Under the Sun, writer/photographer and ultralight pilot Adriel Heisey helps readers see and appreciate the Sonoran Desert in a whole new light. Heisey's astonishing aerial images reveal a rugged landscape that is at once sublime and surreal, forbidding yet fragile, intimate and infinitely varied. 70 color photos.

Under the Sun: A Sonoran Desert Odyssey

Arts & Photography

HEISEY, ADRIEL

Heisey

Photography & Video

Storyteller figures represent one of the more recent developments underway in Native American art today.The continued demand for Mark Bahti's delightful book about these figures and the traditions from which they spring is a testament to their enormous appeal. Bahti has gathered together a collection of storyteller figures to show trends in the art form with text introducing each pueblo and its stories. Pronunciation notes help in reading them aloud, and photographs illustrate the process of making the dolls. Pueblo Stories and Storytellers remains the most comprehensive and reasonably priced introduction to the subject on the market! Photographs throughout

Pueblo Stories and Storytellers (Second Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Bahti, Mark

Social Sciences

An invaluable step-by-step guide to traditional Native American jewelry. From exquisite squash blossom necklaces, buttons and bola ties to hair ornaments, pistol grips and silver goblets, traditional Indian silversmithing is one of the foremost crafts in America. In this Southwestern classic, Oscar T. Branson provides a wealth of knowledge on the tools, techniques, history, and styles of Indian jewelry—timeless art from yesterday that still influences today's metal craftwork. Wire-O binding. 120 color photos.

Indian Jewelry Making

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Branson, Oscar T.

Crafts & Hobbies

Mary Ellen and Laurence Blair's years of research have resulted in a landmark study of Nampeyo's life and work and how she handed down her skill and devotion to her daughters and grandchildren and inspired others to follow her lead. Extensively illustrated with hundreds of color and black-&amp;-white photos, maps, and drawings. Notes, genealogy charts, references, index.

The Legacy of a Master Potter: Nampeyo and Her Descendants

Mary Ellen Blair

Laurence Blair

Saints of the Southwest provides an intimate look at thirty of the most revered saints of the Southwest, photographed in both the holiest and most humble of places: an archbishop's private chapel, a roadside shrine, a church of miracles, the wall of a video store. Author Jim Griffith, long-time chronicler of the West's unique cultural and spiritual heritage, is recognized as one of the foremost folklorists in the United States. He offers a brief biography of each saint and describes why each is particularly significant to the faithful of this diverse region. Learn why distraught mothers stop to pray at a shrine to Santa Rita along southern Arizona's Santa Cruz River, and why stroke victims and arthritis sufferers make pilgrimages to the Holy Child of Atocha at Chimayo in northern New Mexico. Saints of the Southwest will touch the hearts of all seekers who find personal inspiration and affirmation in the greater Southwest. Photographs by Griffith and others accompany illustrations from devotional memorabilia and indigenous religious folk art.

Saints of the Southwest

Jim Griffith

History & Criticism

Pueblos of the Rio Grande is an authoritative and colorful travelers guide to the nineteen venerable pueblos of New Mexico. Written in consultation with pueblo community elders, this book celebrates the cultural diversity and enduring values of Acoma, Cochiti, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Namb, Picuris, Pojoaque, Taos, Tesuque, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Sandia, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santa Domingo, Zia, and Zuni. Cultural identity and artistry are vividly expressed by skilled Pueblo potters, silversmiths, fetish carvers, basket makers, and painters, whose finest works are highly sought-after by discerning art buyers worldwide. Daniel Gibson provides first-time visitors and experienced Indian art collectors alike with a wealth of trip-planning information, including the arts and crafts traditions distinct to each pueblo, annual celebrations open to the public, proper etiquette and attire, and photography restrictions.

Pueblos of the Rio Grande: A Visitor's Guide

GIBSON, DANIEL

Ask a child to draw a picture of a cactus, and the result will probably look like a saguaro. Indeed, mass media have made this denizen of the Sonoran Desert universally recognizable, and perhaps just as misunderstood. In Saguaro: The Desert Giant, Anna Humphreys and Susan Lowell share true stories about this amazing, anthropomorphic cactus that are at least as intriguing as the folklore. A saguaro can grow to be a towering fifty feet or more and live for as long as two centuries. During rainy seasons, a large saguaro can soak up literally hundreds of gallons of water in its expandable, accordion-folded trunk and arms. For uncounted generations, the Tohono Oodham people in Arizona have harvested the sweet saguaro fruits to make syrup and wine. Profusely illustrated with contemporary and historic photographs and other artwork, Saguaro: The Desert Giant celebrates these iconic cacti while arguing that the need to preserve their critical Sonoran Desert habitat is more pressing now than ever.

Saguaro: The Desert Giant

Science & Math

LOWELL, SUSAN

HUMPHREYS, ANNA

Biological Sciences

Two exceptional photographers with distinctly different ways of seeing combine their talents to create In the Fifth World: Portrait of the Navajo Nation. Aerial photographer Adriel Heisey takes flight to capture the magnificent landscapes that are home to the Navajo people. His images are paired with those of Japanese photojournalist Kenji Kawano, whose intimate and exuberant portraits celebrate the enduring character and spirit of the Din ""the People."" Former Navajo Nation Chairman Peterson Zah contributes a personal foreword.

In the Fifth World: Portrait of the Navajo Nation

Kawano, Kenji

The Navajo language-notoriously difficult to translate under the best circumstances-proved an ideal top-secret medium for confounding the Japanese in World War II and transmitting combat intelligence quickly and accurately. It was the only code that the Japanese were never able to crack. Using first-person accounts, correspondence and Marine Corps documents, this remarkable story tells how Navajo code talkers worked together to create a unique ""code-within-a-code,"" and serve their country in dangerous combat situations-a daring achievement that remained secret for twenty-four years.

Navajo Weapon: The Navajo Code Talkers

History

Sally McClain

Americas

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