Introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller.
Like much good writing, her books invite readers into thoughtful dialogue with the text.
Once you have opened the coconut, use the hammer to break it into pieces smaller than the palm of your hand. ... dark brown hairy outer shell; discard the hard shells and retain the chunks of white meat, which have a thin brown skin on ...
Traditionally, the Cherokee let a hollow tree trunk into a hole beneath the sacred fire to communicate with an earlier (perhaps mythical) fire below, kindled at the base of the mound (Mooney 1900:396). Duffield (1973) implied that the ...
The dark brown piece shows the inside of the apex, the tip of the spire. The long white shell piece is a columella, the pillar around which the whorls revolve. The living animal was wrapped around the columella.
Cinematic in scale, Harvey Lloyd's aerial photographs beautifully capture the magnificent sacred lands of the Southwest - the desert, the uplands, and the plateau areas of the Southwest region of...