ON THE COVER
Q’orianka Kilcher (Quechua/Huachipaeri, of Peruvian heritage) portrays the young Pocahontas in the film The New World, about the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia colony in 1607. Photo by Merie Wallace, SMPSP/New Line Productions.

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For many Native artisans, it was the memory of a grandmother’s deftly moving fingers, or a grandfather’s quiet words, that stirred up a powerful desire to learn and carry on an ancient skill perhaps in danger of being lost to the modern world. In some cases, the effort of a single artist—who taught someone else, who then taught someone else—has revived and preserved important ancient Native crafts.

Larry Price—originally from Sheep Springs, New Mexico and a member of the Navajo Nation—has a passion for creating photographic images. Price didn't get serious about photography until January 2002 when he came across an article in Photographic Magazine about a photographer from Flagstaff, Arizona. The imagery in those pages moved him.

By Joe Ben Wheat; edited by Ann Lane Hedlund, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2003; 440 pages, $75 clothbound

Reviewed by Debra Utacia Krol (Salinan/Esselen)

Among the Maya

The Exotic Guatemalan Highlands

Text and photography by Hilary Wallace

From the lakeside villages of Atitlán to the austere, windswept valleys of Paquix and the fertile green checkerboard of the milpas (corn fields), the Guatemalan Highlands encompass some of the most breathtaking scenery in the Americas. These exotic lands also harbor Central America’s most extensive Native cultures, descended from the original Maya people.