In this traditional tale, a great magic elk helps a mute Native American boy find his voice.

Presents a tour of the Anasazi cliff dwellings in Colorado through the eyes of some of the people who lived and visited there nearly 800 years ago.

While tracking a wounded mountain lion, Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild and her wolf, Mountain, come across an old Indian School - a place where children were "Americanized" after being taken from their homes. Forced by a snowstorm to take refuge inside, Jamaica discovers the desecrated body of an old Anglo woman. After the storm, the FBI investigates and Jamaica is stalked and terrorized by the unidentified killer . . .

A middle school class from Hannibal, Missouri visits Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Colorado to learn about life in the desert, and the history of the ancestral Puebloans.

"A compelling portrait of cultural transition and assimilation via the saga of one Acoma Pueblo Indian family. Born in 1861 in New Mexico's Acoma Pueblo, Edward Proctor Hunt lived a tribal life almost unchanged for centuries. But after attending government schools he broke with his people's ancient codes to become a shopkeeper and controversial broker between Indian and white worlds. As a Wild West Show Indian he traveled in Europe with his family,...

Relates the nineteenth-century discovery of cliff dwellings in the Chaco Canyon of northwest New Mexico, the excavations of the ancient ruins, and what the artifacts reveal about the civilization of the ancient Pueblo Indians.

Discusses the civilization of the Anasazi people, who farmed the land of Mesa Verdi, a plateau in southwest Colorado, around 550 A.D. and dug their homes in the cliffs.

"An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In The Lost World of the Old Ones, David Roberts expands and updates the research from his 1996 classic, In Search of the Old Ones. As he elucidates startling archaeological breakthroughs, Roberts also recounts his past twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock-art...

A middle school class from Hannibal, Missouri visits Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Colorado to learn about life in the desert, and the history of the ancestral Puebloans.

"Whiskey Tender is a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and the frictions between being raised to strive towards the American dream while also coming into an understanding of how the narratives of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo heritages have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of America"--