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Details the effects of inevitable encroachment that intensified during the twentieth century and seriously threaten the viability of the New Mexican Spanish language.

Monnett takes a closer look at the struggle between the mining interests of the United States and the Lakota and Cheyenne nations in 1866 that climaxed with the Fetterman Massacre.

La Llorona, the Crying Woman, is the legendary creature who haunts rivers, lakes, and lonely roads. Said to seek out children who disobey their parents, she has become a "boogeyman". La Llorona, deftly translated by Enrique Lamadrid, is familiar and newly informative, while Amy Cordova's rich illustrations illuminate the story.

Patronized by royalty between the sixth and eighth centuries, the monuments of Guatemala's ancient Maya city of Piedras Negras were carved by sculptors with remarkable skills and virtuosity. This title discusses the known monuments of the city sequentially by reigns.

Represents Hopi, Navajo, Rio Grande Puebloan, Hispano, and Anglo cultures in three sections of interviews that respectively address shifting cultural boundaries, and explore the effects in New Mexico of the New Deal's attempts to reinvigorate the economy and mainstream American culture.

An autobiographical ethnography, consisting of twenty-six life episodes that chronicle the author's transformative journey from an impoverished migrant worker to a career in academia. It reflects on a wide range of issues arising from the historically marginalized condition of Mexicans and other Latinos in the United States.

Demonstrates how Jewish awareness in New Mexico following World War II gave rise to significant cultural and political influence, introducing writers, musicians, and such artists as Ira Moskowitz, Arthur Sussman, and Judy Chicago to the state's flourishing art scene.

Features images which document California's migrant workforce and illuminate the story about the human cost of feeding America. This volume contains essays by farm worker advocates, and oral histories from farm workers. It is suitable for students, teachers, activists, photography enthusiasts, and consumers.

Introduces young readers to the complicated and fascinating world of bats, both in their natural habitats and in the human imagination. This book addresses echolocation, vocalization, migration patterns, and breeding habits with enthusiasm. It also includes information on what to do if a bat gets in your house, and building bat houses.

An anthology that includes selections of both oral/traditional texts and works by the first generations of Native American writers. It allows readers to see the ways in which writers of the modern 'Native American Renaissance' have perpetuated, adapted, and departed from oral tradition.

Traces the roots of the mining law and details the way its unintended consequences have shaped western legal thought from Nome to Tombstone and how it has informed much of the lore of the settlement of the West.

Examines the collision of the ethnocentric Spanish missionaries and the Chiricahua Apaches, including the resulting identity theft through Christian baptism, and the even more destructive creation of a local slave trade. This work offers a sample of the total unknown number of baptized Chiricahua men, women and children who were sold into slavery.

Focuses on the sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript known as the ""Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No 2"". This work features the mapa's rare images - including sixteen full-size sections and a nearly quarter-size facsimile - accompanied by fifteen illustrated essays that explore the meanings and uses of the document, and its complex narrative.

Immediately following the Civil War, the United States Ordnance Department reported it had purchased 128,575 Remington revolvers during the conflict. This title offers an examination of the development and evolution of Remington revolvers from the beginning of the Civil War through the end of the Indian wars.

Explores the processes of nationalism and national identity formation in the half century that followed the War of the Pacific. This book considers the national projects of Peru and Chile in the disputed territories and shows how these efforts were received among the diverse social strata of the region.

In this thoughtful work, the authors delineate New Mexico's role in the shaping of the United States by carefully analyzing how the rich histories of the many cultures of the region affected and in turn were affected by influxes of newcomers seeking health benefits, minerals, farms, relaxation, and new beginnings.

Looks at contemporary Cuba: the indomitable 1950s American car, the beautiful young woman, and the revered revolutionary hero, Jose Marti. Giving the reader insight into the Cuban national character, this title helps to understand what gives Cubans - on the island or in exile - their enduring strength and their hope for the future.

A cultural icon, the Black Madonna is a blend of the Virgin Mary and ancient mother-goddesses from Eurasian, Native American, and African cultures. In this examination of the dark mother archetype, Oleszkiewicz-Peralba explores the Black Madonna's functions in the varied cultures of Poland, Mexico and the American Southwest, Brazil, and Cuba.

Abran Gonzalez is a homeboy from the barrio, a young boxer whose world is shattered forever the night he is summoned to his mother's deathbed. He learns he is the son of an unknown Mexican man - a man he is desperately compelled to find. His quest will bring him in contact with many unpleasant characters.

Presents the fascinating succession of events and characters that make up New Mexico's past. This edition takes the reader to the opening years of the twenty-first century.

Shares memories of the author's visits to the village of Chimayo, where Grandpa teaches her how to weave. She describes how Grandma helps her husband choose colour combinations for his Chimayo blankets, and how important it is for a child to listen to and learn from his or her relatives. This book is meant for those over 10 years.

Beginning with the roots of African slavery in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Iberian empires, this work explores central issues, including the transatlantic slave trade, labour, Afro-Latin American cultures, racial identities in colonial slave societies, and the spread of antislavery ideas and social movements.

After historical overviews of the early years of Native American and, specifically, Navajo ethnography, this volume introduces a method that enables the reading of editorially reorganized ethnographic texts as a means of accessing and listening to informants' rich stories. Its chapters discuss ""Son of Old Man Hat: A Navaho Autobiography"".

Traces the origins of Hispanic New Mexico's liturgical drama, early songs, and sounds to ancient European traditions. This is a bilingual English/Spanish study, and includes two CDs, with examples of the music and the dramas discussed in the text.

The Hungry Generations is an early, handwritten version of McNickle's groundbreaking and semi-autobiographical novel ""The Surrounded"". This work offers an introduction to ""The Hungry Generations"" and presents the novel here as it was originally written in the 1930s.

Examines decorated pottery and its production in prehispanic New Mexico's Lower Rio Puerco area through the lens of practice theory. After providing the archaeological and temporal context of her study, the author defines communities of practice and communities of identity within Pottery Mound and Hummingbird Pueblo.

Offers a new study of the Chicano/a movement, "El Movimiento", and its multiple ideologies from a broad cultural perspective. George Mariscal's book examines the Chicano movement's quest for equal rights and economic justice in the context of the Viet Nam War era. Mariscal outlines the social and political conditions that made El Movimiento possible.