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An extraordinary story of forbidden love, set against the background of the Mexican Revolution.

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The Navajo language helped win World War II, and it lives on in this book, as the Code Talkers remember the war and reflect on the aftermath and the legacy they will leave behind. The veterans, able to speak to a daughter of one of their own in English and Navajo, truly shared from their hearts. They not only provided more battlefield details, but they also reveal how their war experiences affected themselves and the Navajo generations that fo...

Welcome to Hopi Land: turquoise skies, sun-washed pueblos, traditional lifeways, and modern people. Visit the land, art, and culture of the Hopi people, with Anna Silas, director of the Hopi Cultural Center Museum, as your guide. Hopi Land, located in northern Arizona, encompasses three spectacular mesas surrounded by 1.6 million acres of "tutsqua, " or homeland. Here the Hopi people have lived continuously since A.D. 500, following a way of ...

A sumptuous full-color study of devotional art. Renowned folklorist James S. Griffith teams up with Mexican scholar Francisco Javier Manzo Taylor to celebrate the compelling images of Christ found in churches, chapels, roadside shrines, and personal altars throughout the border state of Sonora, Mexico. Told in warm, informal stories and pictures, "The Face of Christ in Sonora" captures the essence of these works of powerful popular art. It al...

Caught in the act: Southwestern wildlife in their natural habitat. Jack and Anna Childs went hunting for the elusive Southwestern jaguar, but what they found was bigger than the rare spotted cat, and even more surprising. Founders of the Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project, the Childs set up "camera traps, " or remote-sensor cameras activated by motion and body heat, along the U.S.-Mexico border. They did "catch" the first live, wild jaguar e...

The true story of a special cross-cultural friendship. In 1927 Maud Melville, a wealthy New Englander, and Ethel Muchvo, a Hopi potter, struck up a remarkable friendship. Using diaries, letters, and photographs of Ethel and Maud, biographer and historian Carolyn O'Bagy Davis delves into the touching relationship that blossomed between two very different women over many years of triumphs and sorrows. The story of Ethel and Maud also documents ...

The appealing, affordable, Native American art of "flat pots." The Hopi people of northern Arizona and their Pueblo relatives in New Mexico are famous for their fine pottery jars, bowls, and figures. But they also have a less well-known tradition: the making of unique, handcrafted clay tiles, beginning with ancient altarpieces and progressing to one-of-a-kind contemporary art tiles prized by collectors. Recently a few Navajo potters have also...

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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.

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Scott Calhoun "tells his story with wit and a delightful earthiness." The American Gardener.

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