Native Peoples Magazine - http://www.nativepeoples.com/article
1992 Spring
http://www.nativepeoples.com/article/articles/25/1/1992-Spring/Page1.html
By Site Editor
Published on 04/1/1992
 
Site Editor

 
ON THE COVER
Hopi poet, artist and educator Ramson Lomatewama shares the knowledge of traditional crops with one of his daughters, Ellen, near Second Mesa, Arizona. Photo by Jerry Jacka.

1992 Spring Table of Contents
BUY THIS ISSUE

ON THE COVER
Hopi poet, artist and educator Ramson Lomatewama shares the knowledge of traditional crops with one of his daughters, Ellen, near Second Mesa, Arizona. Photo by Jerry Jacka.

FEATURES

Native American Cornucopia
Praise is lavished upon the wonderful food crops native to the Americas. By Gary Paul Nabhan, co-founder and research director of Native Seeds/SEARCH. This article is drawn from a book to be published by the University of Arizona Press entitled From Chiles to Chocolate. Photos by Stephen Trimble and Jerry Jacka.

A Kuna Homecoming
The first tribal member to become an attorney recounts his homecoming to the San Blas Islands off the Caribbean coast of Panama. Story and photos by David Claudio Iglesias (Kuna).

A Gathering of Shields
Traditional stories about Plains Indian shields and drawings to accompany them. Story and drawings by N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa), winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Our Blue Lake Lands
A recounting of the precedent-setting return of the sacred Blue Lake of Taos Pueblo, New Mexico in 1971. By Cloud Bringing Rain and Margaret Culp. Photos by Dan Budnick.

A Bridge Across the Centuries
The old-style Hopi kachina doll carvings of Manfred Susunkewa are portrayed. Story and photos by Tom Wallis.

DEPARTMENTS

Guest Essay
Tribal self-governance and government-to-government relationships are beginning to flourish, as seen in the Quinault Nation of Washington. By Joe DeLaCruz, Quinault Nation president.

Spirit of the Harvest
The first in a long series of articles and recipes exploring the Native foods of the First Americans, beginning with Navajo posole and Pueblo fired squash blossoms. By Beverly Cox and photographer Martin Jacobs.

Book Reviews
The Taos Indians and the Battle for Blue Lake, by R.C. Gordon-McCutchan; Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back, by Joseph Bruchac and Jonathan London; Insights Guide: Native America, by John Gattuso.

BUY THIS ISSUE