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Book Review: NavajoLand
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 NavajoLand
A Native Son Shares His Legacy Text and photography by LeRoy DeJolie (Navajo); foreword by Tony Hillerman; Arizona Highways Books; Phoenix, AZ; 2005; 80 pages; $12.95 paperbound Reviewed by Debra Utacia Krol (Salinan/Esselen)
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Book Review: Ishi's Brain
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 Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian
By Orin Starn; W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.; New York, NY; 2004; 320 pages; $25.95 clothbound Reviewed by Debra Utacia Krol (Salinan/Esselen)
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Basketry: Weaving New Life into Ancient Forms
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 Basketry is arguably humankind’s oldest art form. From time immemorial, women and men of the Americas have bent, twined and coiled root, grass and branch into superlative art. Weavers crafted more than just baskets for storing and preparing food, though—they also wove clothing, hats, baby carriers and gambling trays for daily use, gifts, ceremonies and trading.
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Book Review: The Whale Rider
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 A novel for ages 10 and up by Witi Ihimaera (Maori), Harcourt Books, San Diego, 2003; 160 pages, $8 paperbound
The Whale Rider, originally published in 1987 and the inspiration for the award-winning film Whale Rider, has finally made its way from New Zealand across Te Moana Nui a Kiwa, or the Great Ocean of Kiwa, to the Americas.
Reviewed by Debra Utacia Krol (Salinan/Esselen)
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Book Review: Blanket Weaving in the Southwest
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 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)
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