San Antonio College Library

Collects stories, essays, and excerpts from twenty diverse authors celebrating the land and people of the American Southwest.

"If the Southwest is known for its distinctive regional culture, it is not only the indigenous influences that make it so. As Anglo Americans moved into the territories of the greater Southwest, they brought with them a desire to reestablish the highest culture of their former homes: opera, painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature. But their inherited culture was altered, challenged, and reshaped by Native American and Hispanic peoples, and...

"Jim Sagel explores with sensitivity and humor the unique language, turbulent history, and rich multicultural fabric of life in New Mexico and the Southwest. He creates a concrete and delightfully detailed panorama of southwestern life--from century-old Indian elders stepping in time to a pre-Columbian dance to lowriders cruising like conquistadors into a Lotaburger future."--BOOK JACKET. "Sagel has honed his unique ability to not only observe the...

Presents the Chicano experience of living within, between, and sometimes outside two cultures, exploring the damnation, salvation, and celebration of it all.

Three essays revised and with a new prologue from the author's Great River ; the Rio Grande in North American history.

"Through five years of literally sitting at the kitchen tables of members of various tribal nations, Cunningham and his wife, Kathy, came to know a people more divers, complex, and accommodating that the stoic, rustic, Indian displayed in popular myth. The inhabitants of this world watch movies on the home VCR, wear imprinted T-shirts, scour magazines for recipes, and battle diabetes. But they also arrowheads for protection from witchcraft, participate...

Analyzes the works of Anglo writers and artists who encountered American Indians in the course of their travels in the Southwest during the one hundred-year period beginning in 1840.