People of Legend: Native Americans of the Southwest - Hardcover

Annerino, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871564335 ISBN 13: 9780871564337

Publisher: Sierra Club Books, 1996

Synopsis

People of Legend: Native Americans of the Southwest is a brilliant documentary of the Native people and landscapes of the Southwest. In 87 stunning color photographs, John Annerino offers striking portraits and majestic landscapes of six major tribal groups and their native grounds. The Apache of southeast Arizona, the Mountain Pima of the Mexican Sierra Madre, the Pápago of southwest Arizona, the Mojave and Hualapai of the Colorado River regions of Arizona and California, the Navajo of northern Arizona and New Mexico, and the Pueblo peoples of New Mexico.

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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.

Photojournalist John Annerino has spent most of his life exploring the Southwest as a professional guide, wilderness runner, and adventurer. He is the author of seven books, including Sierra Club Books' Hiking the Grand Canyon, Canyons of the Southwest, Adventuring in Arizona, and The Wild Country of Mexico.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sierra Club Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0871564335
• ISBN 13: 9780871564337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 122