| Description |
80 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Note |
"A Doubleday book for young readers." |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
Poetry and paintings follow the cycles of nature and human life as seen through the traditional beliefs and rituals of the Taos Indians of the American Southwest. |
| Contents |
[Shaman's circle] -- [Beginning time] -- [When the morningstars sang together] -- [Spring : bringing the buds to life] -- [The sacred songs of our ancestors] -- [The path] -- [Puberty] -- [The marriage of stars and flowers] -- [Birth ritual] -- [The meaning of daylight] -- [The old ways] -- [Sacred love : a ritual] -- [Pueblo wisdom] -- [Gathering life's tools] -- [Feather] -- [Summer : the corn finds its own life] -- [Commitment] -- [Why the great spirit made hands] -- [Marriage ritual] -- [Partners] -- [The four sisters of everlasting beauty] -- [Joined] -- [Children of the sun] -- [Autumn : the sweeping of Mother Earth's navel] -- [The ritual of forgetting] -- [How to become a snake] -- [Grief's companion : war] -- [Changing] -- [What the trees said when they fell] -- [Father] -- [When I was young] -- [Mother] -- [Wisdom of the elders] -- [Medicine woman's lesson] -- [Winter : leaning toward warmth] -- [Grandchildren] -- [Days of the shortest sun] -- [Death ritual : in memoriam, Frank Waters] -- [What to leave behind]. |
| Subject |
Taos Indians -- Poetry.
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American poetry.
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Children's poetry, American. (OCoLC)fst00856347
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Poetry.
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Children's poetry, American.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- Southwest, New -- Poetry.
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| Subject |
Taos Indians -- Juvenile poetry.
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Taos Indians. (OCoLC)fst01142956
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| Genre/Form |
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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| Added Author |
Howell, Frank, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
0385322224 (alk. paper) |
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9780385322225 (alk. paper) |
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