Jamake Highwater

• 1977
• / General Fiction
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Anpao is young and Handsome and Brave - a man any maiden would be proud to call her husband. Any maiden but Ko-Ko-Mik-e-is, that is, who calims she belongs to the Sun alone. And so Anpao sets off for the house of the Sun to ask permission to marry...

• Apr-1980
• / General Fiction
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Cover clean, crisp, interior is clean with no marks, no underlining or highlighting, binding is tight, a very nice copy throughout__all books are wrapped and padded well__books ship same or next day with order tracking...

• Nov-1981
• / General Fiction
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Nanautzin, chief orator of Montezuma, describes Mexico before its conquest by Cortes and evokes the character of Montezuma himself, torn between his dignity as an Aztec leader and his belief in the return of the white god Quetzlcoatl...

• Oct-1982
• / Fantasy
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Examines Native American ritual, art, oral traditions, architecture, and ceremonial dance and presents an analysis of these societies, whose ideas, intellectual aims, and attitudes differ fundamentally from Western culture...

• Jan-1985
• / General Fiction
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Alone and destitute after the death of her husband, Amana finds lasting friendship, love and disillusionment, and eventually moves to a trading post town where she strives to give her daughter and grandchildren a sense of pride in their Indian herita...

• Jan-1986
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1990
• / Fantasy
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In this fascinating study of the ways in which our ideas about sex and gender are shaped, Jamake Highwater shows that far from being the most natural force of our lives, sexuality is the one most susceptible to cultural influences. Each culture desig...

• Feb-1992
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1994
• / Literary
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A retelling of the mythic saga of the magic ring of the Nibelungen, transplanted to the lush, tropical pre-Columbian Americas following the myth's female characters and spotlighting the conflit between nature and culture...

• Nov-1994
• / Fantasy
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In a story based on the great Indian and Southeast Asian epic, the Ramayana, Prince Rama falls in love with Sita, a beautiful nature goddess, but when a jealous queen forces him from his throne, Rama, Sita, and his brother Laksmana must battl...

• Apr-1995
• / General Fiction
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• May-1995
• / General Fiction
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Highwater describes the changes in nature as plants and animals respond to the seasons. Speidel's soft paintings fill the pages and balance the strong verbal imagery that celebrates the ever-changing natural world. Teachers and librarians looking for...

• Oct-1997
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-2001
• / Literary
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Nanautzin, chief orator of Montezuma, describes Mexico before its conquest by Cortes and evokes the character of Montezuma himself, torn between his dignity as an Aztec leader and his belief in the return of the white god Quetzlcoatl...

• / Fantasy
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• / General Fiction
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Sitko Ghost Horse flees from the dying city to the desert, where he encounters an Indian tribe whose initiation ceremony requires him to enter a dream state and examine the conflicting, self-defeating worlds of his past. 15,000 first printing....

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Abandoned in the wilderness after smallpox devastates her tribe, eleven-year-old Amana acquires from Grandfather Fox a warrior's courage and a hunter's prowess, gifts that sustain her as she watches the progressive disintegration of her people....