southwest, new

Describes the Old Spanish Trail and the pioneers who settled in California.

Coyote, who has a nose for trouble, insists that the blackbirds teach him how to fly, but the experience ends in disaster for him.

When a young girl attends the wedding of her best friend's cousin, she learns many things about the customs of the Navajo Indians living in the American Southwest.

Captured in a raid, a twelve-year-old Navajo boy is sold to a wealthy Spanish landowner but vows to return to his canyon and family.

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.

During the time of Cochise and Geronimo, an adopted Apache boy joins in the desperate struggle of his people to hold their hunting grounds in southern Arizona against alien invaders.

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.

Contains thirteen essays in which the authors explore the interrelated themes of cultural identity, health, relationship to the environment, environmental restoration, and organic foods as part of a greater whole; and provide insight into how sustainable living can be achieved and maintained.