The Tohono O'Odham Indians who live in the Sonoran Desert prepare for the rains necessary to provide fruit for the Saguaro Wine Ceremony, their most important harvest celebration
Nezbah, a young Navajo girl, attends the annual Shiprock Fair with her family, where she rides the ferris wheel, watches the parade, and attends the ceremonies
Michael Lomatuway'ma, Michael Lacapa, Ekkehart Malotki
Hardcover
(Kiva Pub Inc, Oct. 1, 1995)
Two abandoned children occupy themselves by making a sunflower hummingbird which comes to life and brings them food and water and reunites them with their family
When a stranger named Kokopelli arrives at a drought-stricken Puebloan village, he accepts gifts in exchange for teaching the villagers to sing and dance to bring the rain.
During the summer Tso'u returns home to Taos, putting aside his school name of Little-Joe along with his school clothes to take part once again in village life, to go to church--where he is known as Josâe la Cruz--to ride his horse to the sacred Blue Lake, and to participate in the Indian Ceremonial at Gallup.
A family visiting New Mexico's Bandelier National Monument is introduced to the life of the Anasazi and the mystery of their disappearance from this area. Includes puzzles and activities.