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After a surprise attack leaves many of her people dead, fifteen-year-old Walks Alone, an Apache girl wounded in the massacre, struggles to survive and rejoin the refugee band.

Uses the first-person accounts of four illegal immigrants to discuss the situations and concerns related to this problematic issue.

Follows the Pueblo Indians from creation and prehistory, to bloody massacres by the Spanish and others, and ending with the testing of the atomic bomb.

Examines the influences that have shaped Hispanic culture in the United States.

Presents a brief biography of Zebulon Pike, soldier and explorer of the American west, provides information oh his childhood, his education, and his expeditions in the Rocky Mountains.

A blind wildlife sculptor pursues the truth when a major dealer in Native American art is murdered in Sante Fe, New Mexico.

Miguel and Ramon are sent to Abuelita Rosa in northern Arizona to help her and to learn responsibility after their grades drop; but when the old woman has to go to the hospital, the boys have to find some way to get back to Miguel's parents in New Mexico.

Presents volume five of an eight-volume collection on regional cultures of America and examines the traditions and history of the Southwest through narratives on Native Americans, architecture, Spanish influence, border music, and other areas that define the Southwestern states.