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Assumptions and speculation about the Spanish conquerors' treatment of the indigenous miners at Potisi, Peru, have long obscured the complexity of the motives in mining there. Peter Bakewell's innovative study incorporates the Indians' viewpoint, finding that they were willing to work for the Spaniards.

In 1929, Modotti was accused of the murder of Julio Antonio Mella, her Cuban lover. She fled to the USSR to escape the Mexican press and then to Europe, where she became a Soviet secret agent and a nurse under an assumed name, returning to Mexico to meet an early death at the age of forty-five.

Why did New Mexico remain so long in political limbo before being admitted to the Union as a state? Combining extensive research and a clear and well-organised style, Robert W. Larson provides the answers to this question in a thorough and comprehensive account of the territory's extraordinary sixty-six-year struggle for statehood.

Examines how the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire in 1532 brought dramatic and irreversible transformations in traditional Andean modes of production, technology, politics, religion, culture, and social hierarchies. At the same time, Professor Andrien explains how the indigenous peoples merged these changes with their own political, socio-economic, and religious traditions.

An acclaimed first novel by two award-winning New Mexico writers, Sunlight and Shadow is a story of family, friendship, and what it really means to have hope. "Filled with emotion. A real winner of a story."-Tony Hillerman

In this powerfully eerie tale, the legend of La Llorona is recast as the tale of a witch intent on doing evil in modern Santa Fe.

The Stone Age prehistory of northern Spain is one of the richest and most significant in the world, extending at least 100,000 years into the past. With adjacent regions in France, this mountainous region has one of the most complete records in Europe for hominid occupation, including spectacular cave art sanctuaries like Altamira and El Castillo.Iberia before the Iberians is the first book since 1924 (in any language) to present a complete synthesis of Cantabrian prehistory. Written from an ecological and functional perspective, the book traces the evolution of human responses to widely varying physical and demographic environments. It provides up-to-date information on sites, chronology, art, and artifacts, from the Lower Paleolithic through the Neolithic, along with standardized tables and site maps for each period.

Prior to 1640, when the regular slave trade to New Spain ended, colonial Mexico was the second largest slaveholding society in the New World. Damned Notions of Liberty explores the lived experience of slavery from the perspective of slaves themselves to reveal how the enslaved may have conceptualized and contested their subordinated social positions in New Spain's middle colonial period.

Although highly regarded as a writer of fiction, non-fiction, and drama, N. Scott Momaday considers himself primarily a poet. This first book of his poems to be published in over a decade comprises a varied selection of new work along with the best from his four earlier collections of poems.

Of the nearly 300,000 people who identified themselves as Navajo in the 2000 US Census, 178,014 identified themselves as speakers of Navajo. Poetry written and performed in both Navajo and English, continues to emerge as an important voice for Navajos. This study investigates the devices found in Navajo written and oral poetic traditions.

The Santa Ana Pueblo, called Tamaya by its people, is located in central New Mexico, northwest of Albuquerque, between the Jemez Mountains and the Rio Grande. This book presents Tamaya's history, beliefs, ways of life, oral traditions, and legal systems through the end of the twentieth century.

Provides a chronicle of what the author has witnessed in the midst of one of the oldest civil wars in any Latin American nation. This book breaks through the facade of dogma and rhetoric of various groups, including the Marxist guerillas, right-wing paramilitary forces, and government troops, to examine the human aspects of Colombia's hostilities.

The Umbanda religion summons the spirits of old slaves and Brazilian Indians to speak through the mouths of mediums in trance. This book describes its many aspects and explores its place within the lives of a variety of practitioners. It places Umbanda spiritual beliefs and practices within the broader context of Brazilian history and culture.

Describes the author's exploration of the petroglyphs of Espanola in northern New Mexico.

A collection of narratives told from the perspectives of young people from around the world that serves as a useful educational tool, providing youth with a context for understanding global health, not just in a physiological sense, but from a psychological and sociological perspective as well.

Offers an history of American archaeology in its most critical decade, the 1930s.

Examines class formation and social and labor issues in the Hidalgo mining district in Northern Mexico from the 1890s to the 1920s.

Farm labor leader and civil rights advocate Dolores Huerta first worked with Cesar Chavez as a community organizer in Mexican American areas of southern California in the mid-1950s. This book includes a biographical introduction, articles and book excerpts written about her, and her own writing and speeches.

Written by the author whose career involves firefighting, fire rehabilitation, timber sale administration, environmental education, and many other aspects of forest management, this book focuses on the important bond between land and people. It contains tales that offer insight into forest issues.

The haunting specter of hanging trees holds a sway on the American imagination, conjuring images of rough-and-tumble frontier towns struggling to impose law and order in a land where violence was endemic. This study examines several criminal cases that reveal the realities of the role hangings played in the administration of frontier justice.

Emphasizing the vibrancy of Navajo culture, this title illustrates the process of incorporating ideas while retaining distinctive Navajo beliefs, values, and orientations.

Tells the story of a remarkable woman whose artistic mission was to relate Mexican cultural history to English-language readers. A world-renowned playwright in the 1930s and best-selling novelist in the 1940s, Josefina Niggli published at a time when Chicana/o literature was not yet recognized as such.

Offers an overview of the fauna and flora of New Mexico, from Cambrian through Pleistocene time. This book includes a summary of paleontological and evolutionary events, an outline of the stratigraphy of the state, maps, and commentary on the vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants that lived in New Mexico during each time interval.

Intended for mental health workers, this book and CD package helps them break through language and cultural barriers between English- and Spanish-speaking participants. The suggested application is a small group setting in the workplace in which a fluent Spanish speaker serves as a facilitator at one hour sessions held once a week.

Asserts being a 'nationalist' is a legitimate perspective from which to approach Native American literature and criticism. This book considers such a methodology not only defensible but also crucial to supporting Native national sovereignty and self-determination, an important goal of Native American studies.

Revisits the activism of women citizens in preserving national parks and examines how far the inclusion of career women in the Park Service has progressed. This work discusses how staff can no longer fulfill the Park Service mission without outside support. This reality and the acceptance of women as leaders has affected Park Service culture.

This collection of six bilingual children's stories takes a regional and historical emphasis. Each story is followed with discussion questions to help children recall the story's key details and suggestions for classroom activities designed to stimulate curiosity and expand knowledge of historical events. For ages 8-10.