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Name: Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico
Brand: Lynda A. Sánchez
SKU: 9781626194861
Price: 17.99 USD
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The American Heritage history book series highlights the little-known stories of America’s marginalized populations. Meet Bessie Coleman from the Lone Star state, the first black person in the world to earn a pilot's license. Discover how the Grand Dame of the Everglades protected Florida’s unique wildlife, and tour iconic symbols of old Richmond architecture, built by talented Black laborers and architects. Learn how to interpret Wabanaki art, call shotgun with the San Diego lowriders, and get a taste for Baltimore’s Little Italy, all within the pages of the American Heritage books. [View all American Heritage books]

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Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico

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New Mexico Civil Rights and Justice

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Hispanics of Roosevelt County, New Mexico

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Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico

9781626194861

$23.99 $17.99 Save 25%

Storytelling has been a vital and vivid tradition in Apache life. Coyote tales, the creation legend and stories of historic battles with Comanche and Anglo intruders create a colorful mosaic of tribal heritage. Percy Bigmouth, a prominent oral historian of the Mescalero and Lipan Apache tribes, realized in the early twentieth century that the old ways were waning. He wrote in longhand what he had learned from his father, Scout Bigmouth, a prison camp survivor at Fort Sumner and participant in the turbulent Apache Wars. Join author Lynda Sanchez as she brings to light the ancient legends and lore of the Apaches living in the shadow of Mescalero's Sacred Mountain. Seventy-five years in the making, this collection is a loving tribute to a way of life nearly lost to history.

New Mexico Civil Rights and Justice

9781467159531

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Taking a stand for equality in the Land of Enchantment

Veterans returning to New Mexico after World War II found a home altered by more than just the explosion of the first atomic bomb. Former ranchers were forced to eke out a living in zinc mines, leading to protests of conditions that were memorialized in the movie Salt of the Earth, which both the film industry and the government tried to suppress. As the civil rights movement swept across the country in the 1960s, New Mexico found its own champions in activists like Reies López Tijerina, who denounced the widespread mistreatment and abuse of the helpless. Ray John de Aragón follows the heritage of protest in New Mexico, from folk heroes like Padre Don Antonio José Martínez to more contemporary battles against racism and prejudice.

Hispanics of Roosevelt County, New Mexico

9781626199156

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In 1942, several Hispanic families left drought-devastated Encino and headed for the small, peanut-farming town of Portales in Roosevelt County, New Mexico. Among them was the Trujillo family, including five-year-old Agapito, who later became the county's first Hispanic law enforcement officer. The new arrivals did not feel welcome in Portales, which was almost entirely Anglo and a rumored sundown town. However, determined to put down roots and take advantage of economic opportunities, they eventually thrived. Agapito Trujillo tells the story of his family's migration to Roosevelt County alongside the struggles and triumphs of the Hispanic community with candor, grace and an obvious love for his heritage and neighbors.