WALLIS, ETHEL EMILY

God Speaks Navajo

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small edge tears, nicks and tiny chips, along with rubbing to the black front panel. "While at UCLA, Wallis rubbed elbows with several members of the second wave of pioneers of Wycliffe Bible Translators. She became interested and eventually joined the organization, after serving on the editorial staff of King’s Business. Because of her training in journalism, Wycliffe’s founder William Cameron Townsend asked her to write the first biography of the organization. Working with Mary A. Bennett, she rose to that challenge, producing “Two Thousand Tongues to Go. ” Ethel went on to write eight missionary books: Dayuma: Life Under Waorani Spears, Tariri: My Story, Otomi Shepherdess, God Speaks Navajo, Aucas Downriver, Dayuma’s Story Today, and the Cakchiquel Album. She wrote about missionaries she knew and traveled to many locations worldwide to compile information for other books. As a linguist, Ethel wrote 25 scholarly articles on the languages she studied, published in various professional journals. She studied and translated languages of Eastern Europe and Mexico and helped open the door for Bible translation work in Southeast Asia. " (from Conservapedia). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 42207

Catalogue: Native Americans

Mots-clés: Native Americans Ethel Emily Wallis Navajo Faye Edgerton Navajo Indians Wycliffe Bible Translators Languages

WATSON, DON

Cliff Dwellings of the Mesa Verde a Story in Pictures

Mesa Verde, CO: Mesa Verde Museum Association[Cushing Malloy], 1959. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is an oblong paperback book with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some edge wear, rubbing, and several tears, including a one inch wrinkled tear to the top front edge. There is some toning to the edges of the book covers, and to the spine joints. The text pages are clean and bright. "Starting c. 7500 BC Mesa Verde was seasonally inhabited by a group of nomadic Paleo-Indians known as the Foothills Mountain Complex. The variety of projectile points found in the region indicates they were influenced by surrounding areas, including the Great Basin, the San Juan Basin, and the Rio Grande Valley. Later, Archaic people established semi-permanent rock shelters in and around the mesa. By 1000 BC, the Basketmaker culture emerged from the local Archaic population, and by 750 AD the Ancestral Puebloans had developed from the Basketmaker culture." (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .

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N° du livre: 48258

Catalogue: Native Americans

Mots-clés: Native Americans Don Watson Colorado Western Americana Mesa Verde National Park

WILLIAMS, TERRY TEMPEST

Pieces of White Shell a Journey to Navajoland

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0684182327. Illustrated by Clifford Bryceleas. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some light edge wear and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. There is a small mostly closed edge tear to the top front edge of the dust jacket as well. This book was awarded the Southwest Book Award for 1984. "Pieces of White Shell is a journey to a largely unknown country, a land of the mind and spirit as well as earth and grass, where people live in intimacy with landscape, where earth, mountains, stars, sky, hold meanings largely unknown to us.". Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 31684

Catalogue: Native Americans

Mots-clés: 0684182327 Native Americans Terry Tempest Williams Clifford Bryceleas Navajo Indians Navaho Indians Navaho culture Stories Short Stories Native Americans

WOOD, NANCY (EDITED)

The Serpent's Tongue Prose, Poetry, and Art of the New Mexico Pueblos

New York, NY: Dutton Books, 1997. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Nancy Wood (June 20, 1936 – March 12, 2013) was an American author, poet, and photographer. Wood published numerous collections of poetry as well as children's novels, fiction, and nonfiction. Major themes and influences in her work were the Native American cultures of the Southwestern United States. Her career, which spanned over five decades, included 28 publications of prose and poetry, and several photograph collections. Wood was a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, and a recipient of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 48407

Catalogue: Native Americans

Mots-clés: Native Americans Nancy Wood New Mexico Pueblo Indians Native American History

WRIGHT, MURIEL H.

A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma

Norman, OK: Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1987. New Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 080612041X. Trade PB. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The text pages are clean and bright.. Near Fine .

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N° du livre: 48534

Catalogue: Native Americans

Mots-clés: 080612041X Native Americans Muriel H. Wright Indian Tribes Oklahoma

YANOVSKY, ELIAS & U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE & ROGER CHAMBERS

Food Plants of the North American Indians

Washington, D. C.: U . S. Department of Agriculture, 2017. Facsimile reprint. Stapled wraps. Facsimile reprint. This is a trade paperback booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is a strip of sunning to the top rear cover of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The print on this booklet is really small. There is an inked previous owner's name on the front inside cover. This publication lists "all of the food plants that appeared in Ethnobotanical publications during a period of nearly 80 years." (From the booklet introduction) The list was compiled when the Carbohydrate Division of the Bureau of Chemistry systematically investigated the amount of carbohydrates in plants - one of the scientists suggested attention be given to "plants used for food by the North American Indians." this booklet results from those investigations.. Very Good .

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N° du livre: 46849

Catalogue: Native Americans

Mots-clés: Native Americans Elias Yanovsky Agriculture Botany U. S. Department Of Agriculture Native Plants Food Crops