People of Legend: Native Americans of the Southwest - Softcover
Traditions that began ten thousand years ago have survived and remain vital in the lives of the descendants of these ancient people. People of Legend surveys the terrain inhabited by each of six principal tribal groups, relates their creation myths and the history of their conquest, and presents a portfolio of 87 stunning photographs of the landscapes and peoples in the heartland of Native America.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
From the Author:
Photographed and researched throughout Native American ancestral lands in the Great Southwest (United States and Mexico), People of Legend includes an introduction, essays, literary quotes, descriptive captions, bibliography, 1 color map. The color photographs feature portraits, ceremonies, and lifeways of the Apache (Nde), Hualapai (Hwalapay), Mountain Pima (Óob), Navajo (Diné ), Ó'odham (Akimel Ó'odham, Hia Ced Ó'odham, Tohono Ó'odham), Mojave ((Makháv), San Juan Tewa (Okken), Southern Ute (Weimunuche), and Zuni (Siwi). The national parks, tribal parks, and natural areas featured in the color photographs include Baboquivari Mountains, Barry M. Goldwater Range, Basaseachic Falls National Park (Chihuahua, Mexico), Cochise Stronghold National Register of Historic Places, Dragoon Mountains, Grand Canyon National Park, Little Colorado River, Monument Valley, Quitovac (Sonora, Mexico), Saguaro National Park, Sierra Madre Occidental (Sonora, Mexico), Superstition Wilderness, Tumacácori National Historical Park, Quitovac (Sonora, Mexico).
About the Author
John Annerino is an award winning author and photographer of 19 distinguished photography books, illustrated nonfiction books, magazine features, color maps, and single-artist landscape calendars of the American West and Old Mexico. John's published work of Native peoples and cultures includes Arizona Highways (photographic feature, "Between Myth and Mystery: A cowboy guide and Navajo elder"), LIFE Magazine ("Kids' Pictures to God"), People ("Word Warriors" Navajo Code Talkers), Travel-Holiday ("Pow Wow Nation"), Sierra Club Books (The Wild Country of Mexico), W.W. Norton (Indian Country: Sacred Ground, Native Peoples), and Farcountry Press (new 2014 photography book, Colorado Plateau Wild and Beautiful).
COLORADO PLATEAU WILD and BEAUTIFUL by the author is now available on Amazon.com
From the Inside Flap:
About the Author
John Annerino is an award winning author and photographer of 19 distinguished photography books, illustrated nonfiction books, magazine features, color maps, and single-artist landscape calendars of the American West and Old Mexico. John's published work of Native peoples and cultures includes Arizona Highways (photographic feature, "Between Myth and Mystery: A cowboy guide and Navajo elder"), LIFE Magazine ("Kids' Pictures to God"), People ("Word Warriors" Navajo Code Talkers), Travel-Holiday ("Pow Wow Nation"), Sierra Club Books (The Wild Country of Mexico), W.W. Norton (Indian Country: Sacred Ground, Native Peoples), and Farcountry Press (new 2014 photography book, Colorado Plateau Wild and Beautiful).
COLORADO PLATEAU WILD and BEAUTIFUL by the author is now available on Amazon.com
John Annerino has spent more than 20 years exploring the Southwest, photographing its spectacular landscapes, and learning from the indigenous people whose traditional lifeways have survived for centuries. During his journeys, he created this vibrant pictorial celebration of both their magnificent landforms, and the remarkable cultural landscape of contemporary Native America.
Traditions that began ten thousand years ago have survived and remain vital to the lives of the descendants of these ancient people. People of Legend surveys the terrain inhabited by each of the six principal tribal groups, relates their creation myths and the history of their conquest, and presents a portfolio of 87 stunning color photographs of the landscapes and peoples in the heartland of Native America.
In southeastern Arizona, Annerino visits the Apache to photograph a coming-of-age ceremony in which a young girl is identified as White Shell Woman, the guardian spirit who watches over the tribe and protects its future. In the Sonoran desert of southwestern Arizona, an old Pápago man (Hia C'ed O'odham, "People of the Sand") points out ancient pertoglyphs, familar to him, uninterpretable by the anthropologist today. The Sierra Madre Mountains of northern Mexico are home to the Mountain Pima (O'ob), where Indian men, their faces painted white, welcome the American photographer into their sacred ritual.
Further on the journey, a Hualapai guide takes Annerino down the Colorado River, a trip the man's ancestors have taken for a thousand years. In the mesa country of northern Arizona, a Navajo elder reminisces about working for Army Intelligence during World War II. This cultural odyssey ends in the redrock country of New Mexico, home to Pueblo peoples such as the Zuni, Keresan, and Tewa, and the site of the largest traditional gathering of Native Americans in the Southwest.
People of Legend is a journey in word and image that mirrors the journey Native Americans have undertaken throughout their history. An evocative appreciation of these ancient cultures, People of Legend documents their struggle to preserve their living traditions against the tide of history, and celebrates the grandeur and beauty of the mysterious region they still call home.
Traditions that began ten thousand years ago have survived and remain vital to the lives of the descendants of these ancient people. People of Legend surveys the terrain inhabited by each of the six principal tribal groups, relates their creation myths and the history of their conquest, and presents a portfolio of 87 stunning color photographs of the landscapes and peoples in the heartland of Native America.
In southeastern Arizona, Annerino visits the Apache to photograph a coming-of-age ceremony in which a young girl is identified as White Shell Woman, the guardian spirit who watches over the tribe and protects its future. In the Sonoran desert of southwestern Arizona, an old Pápago man (Hia C'ed O'odham, "People of the Sand") points out ancient pertoglyphs, familar to him, uninterpretable by the anthropologist today. The Sierra Madre Mountains of northern Mexico are home to the Mountain Pima (O'ob), where Indian men, their faces painted white, welcome the American photographer into their sacred ritual.
Further on the journey, a Hualapai guide takes Annerino down the Colorado River, a trip the man's ancestors have taken for a thousand years. In the mesa country of northern Arizona, a Navajo elder reminisces about working for Army Intelligence during World War II. This cultural odyssey ends in the redrock country of New Mexico, home to Pueblo peoples such as the Zuni, Keresan, and Tewa, and the site of the largest traditional gathering of Native Americans in the Southwest.
People of Legend is a journey in word and image that mirrors the journey Native Americans have undertaken throughout their history. An evocative appreciation of these ancient cultures, People of Legend documents their struggle to preserve their living traditions against the tide of history, and celebrates the grandeur and beauty of the mysterious region they still call home.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherIuniverse Inc
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0595004024
- ISBN 13 9780595004027
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages148
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
People of Legend: Native Americans of the Southwest
Published by
Backinprint.com
(2000)
ISBN 10: 0595004024
ISBN 13: 9780595004027
Used
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. Seller Inventory # mon0000219209
Buy Used
US$ 4.47
Convert currency
Stock Image
People of Legend: Native Americans of the Southwest
Published by
Backinprint.com
(2000)
ISBN 10: 0595004024
ISBN 13: 9780595004027
Used
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.79. Seller Inventory # G0595004024I3N00
Buy Used
US$ 8.46
Convert currency