NAHM 2018: Books on Native American Culture

Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation.

Poetry. Fiction. Linda Hogan is a Chickasaw poet, novelist and essayist. She is the author of several books of poetry and a collection of short fiction.

For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved Native American tribe, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man.

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Song of the Turtle creates an eloquent cycle of story and self-exploration from the works of both major writers and emerging talents, and represents a unique survey of contemporary Native American work.

This unique book provides a complete study of the exquisite Native American basketry from the San Francisco Bay Area and the Monterey Bay region north to Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino and eastward across the Sacramento Valley to the crest of the Sierras.

This book documents the current revival and basketry from its leading practitioners, including basketmakers from the Hupa, Yurok, Karuk, Tolowa, Western Mono (Monache) of northern California, and the Great Basin tribes, including the Western Shoshone, Northern Paiute, Washoe, and Chemehuevi

With this knowledgeable culinary guide, readers will find recipes for the best of Native American dishes that were created to honor the changing seasons and earth's bounty.

More than one hundred authentic recipes center around Hopi staples of beans, corn, wheat, chilies, meat, gourds, and native greens and fruits.

This premier publication of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian documents Native American dance with stunning photographs and essays by noted contributors.

An insider's journey into the dances and music, traditions and regalia of the intertribal pow-wow.

In The Man Made of Words Momaday chronicles his own pilgrimage as an author, retelling, through thirty-eight essays, allegorical stories, and autobiographical reminiscences, how he became one of the first recognized Native American writers of this century

n Her Fifth book, Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American voices, melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from America's brutal history into a poetic whole.

Love begins upriver, at Katamiin, the Karuk center of the world. Here creation was danced into existence; here "the might of a bulldozer does not equal the will of ten thousand years".

The major essay by renowned art historian J. J. Brody traces the development of southwestern pottery from the prehistoric Anasazi through modern Pueblo. A section on pottery technology examines the different types of clays and details the pottery-makings process.

The standard work on lost New Mexico civilization's extraordinary craft. Stunning photos.

Dispelling myths, answering questions, and stimulating thoughtful avenues for further inquiry, this highly absorbing reference provides a wealth of specific information about over 200 North American Indian groups in Canada and the United States.

The author reconstructs the archetypal and symbolic significance of indigenous rituals and sacred sites, placing Native American spirituality in the context of the world's great religions.

Discusses the ceremonial and spiritual practices of the Plains Indians, covering topics such as medicine men, healing rituals, fertility rites, and celebrations.

In a collection of symbols and images central to Native American culture, Hausman offers a lyrical, poetic work which reaffirms the view that Native Americans once held of the land. Illustrations.