San Antonio College Library

Discusses the traditional adornment of North American Indians, covering the furs of the subarctic, the shells of the woodland tribes, the plateau area beadwork, the Northwest Coast jewelers, and the turquoise of the Southwest.

For half a century, readers on peyotism have devoured La Barre's fascinating original study, which began when the author, at age twenty-four, studied the rites of fifteen American Indian tribes using Lophophora williamsii, the small, spineless, carrot-shaped peyote cactus growing in the Rio Grande Valley and southward. Continuing his research from the 1930s through the 1980s, Weston L Barre reviews topics such as the Timothy Leary-Richard Alpert "experiments"...

Offers biographical information on over two-hundred-fifty notable Native Americans in fields such as politics, law, journalism, science, medicine, art, literature, athletics, education, and entertainment.

The Spirit of Indian Women provides a unique glimpse into a world that is almost inaccessible in our time. Through the combined power of photos, art, and the wisdom of traditional voices, modern readers can come to feel something of the timeless spirit of Indian women.

Selected writings by Native Americans and others survey and elucidate the practical and theoretical dimensions and implications of the diversity of American Indian religious experience and belief.

Located in the Oklahoma Collection.

Survey of the styles expressed in the native arts of North America from prehistoric times to the present and explores some of their historic dimensions. Includes paintings, engravings, textiles and sculpture.

The relationship of the Native Americans to nature is the focus of the book. Features coverage of Southwestern tribes including Papago, Navajo, Hopi, Zuñi, Apache and Havasupai.

This is a comprehensive and thought-provoking approach to the history of the native peoples of North America (including Mexico and Canada) and their civilizations from earliest evidence to 1990.