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The Canadian sub-arctic is a world of Indian hunters and trappers - but also of white energy speculators, ranchers and sports hunters. Hugh Brody came to this dual world with the job of 'mapping' the forest and prairie of northwest British Columbia, as well as recording the life of a group of Beaver Indians living in the path of a projected oil pipeline. Maps and Dreams is his account of an extraordinary journey through the world and dreams of a people with an ancient way of life who have no intention of vanishing into the past. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Wind Speaker, published by Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) on December 1, 1998. The length of the article is 718 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Native music put on the map.
Author: Jackie Bissley
Publication: Wind Speaker (Newsletter)
Date: December 1, 1998
Publisher: Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA)
Volume: 16Issue: 8Page: 20

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This digital document is an article from Dictionary of American History, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2867 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Focuses on cultures and countries around the world, specifically what is and is not shared culturally by the people who live in a particular country. Entries contain descriptive summaries of the country in question, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious, and political information. ... Read more

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In her fifth book, Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American voices, melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from America's brutal history into a poetic whole. ... Read more

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I'm Not Just Spouting Good Words!
This book, although interesting in content, tends to ramble on at points, becoming tedious and redundant. However, when you're an acclaimed poet like Harjo, you can do such a things as ramble on about the same subjects, why I believe contemporary poets call this technique creating a theme! Anyway, this book isn't worth ten dollars and fourty cents, in fact, it's not even worth seven dollars, go out and read some Adrienne Rich. Yeah, she gave the book a good review, but maybe she was just hoping that Harjo would feel like she accomplished something and move on!

Remaking a World
Joy Harjo's new collection hums on the page and reaches for each of us to shift our perceptions.Though the layout of the book does grow slightly repetitious at times, it bears repeating and is evident why Harjo chose to include her "tales," as she calls them, interspersed with her restrained poems: with _Map to the Next World_ she is creating her own mythological world using the stories of her Native American ancestry as a backdrop.And, it seems, she's recreating this world we live in.

With each new poem, she cultivates a new awareness of the world, pushes us to view our world in a new way.This is what poetry should do, obvious as it may seem, but it is what too much poetry does not.In her poem, "Emergence" she proves her collection concerns itself as much with the trappings of this world than with what will and must come next if we proceed to live independent of past, starving our present and future."I remember," she writes, "when there was no urge/to cut the land or each other into pieces,/when we knew how to think/in beautiful."

Harjo pushes us to confront our lives and the denial omnipresent throughout them.In "Forgetting," she writes, "Forget history and how it has a way/of looping until you slap up against the chest/of an enemy who desires you and hates himself/for loving himself in you." This poet refuses to let us forget, will not allow us to deny that we all live in this same world, and our descendants will live in the world we make.It is up to us how we make ourselves, how we remake this world, and whether or not we choose to identify "the blessing/of water," our ancestors' memory and to honor the creators.

My Favorite Harjo since She Had Some Horses
A Map to the Next World is a stunningly good collection of poems from Native America's best poet. As the title indicates, this is something of a guide to making it to what happens next in a complicated life. As such, it is the story of a Harjo's own journey. These poems come in a progression that is reminiscent of Harjo's classic She Had Some Horses, but here she is more experienced, wiser, tougher, and absolutely a master of the language of her craft. The climax of Map to the Next World is a long poem that explores the complex relationship of Harjo to her father. It alternates between tight prose paragraphs on one page and stark, breathing poetry on the facing page. It's among her strongest poems ever, an explication of pain coupled with the wonderment of the endurance of love. Harjo has published a children's book and has turned to writing fiction. A Map to the Next World is certain evidence as to why poetry remains her oldest and best literary home. ... Read more

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Great
This is a wonderful glimpse into the development of detailed maps ofCentral America.It expresses the necessity of a country to be aware ofthe resources it possesses and the lengths to which it must go to obtainthis information.Another good book along these same lines is"Mapping and Empire" by Matthew Edney, which describes theprocess of mapmaking the British government undertook in India.Overall,this is a great book. ... Read more

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Indian Country: Arizona ? Colorado ? New Mexico ? Utah Regional Map combines the best elements of a guidebook and a map. It features dozens of points of interest, detailed, easy-to-use maps and all the essential "need-to-know" information for an enjoyable stay. Other maps can help you find your way to the Four Corners Region, but only this guide map will help you decide what to do once you get there.

In addition to the regional map are insets of Bryce Canyon National Park, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Chaco Culture National Historic Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, and Zion National Park.

Guide information on the reverse covers local areas of interest, Indian Gaming and Casinos, and Premier Indian Traders. In addition, the regional map and all inset maps include caption boxes with small paragraphs of location specific guide information.

Two-sided, self-cover, paper folded map.
Size: 4.25" × 9.125" folded; 39.125" × 26.75" unfolded

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Nice map, just not very sturdy
The map is great for showing where the action takes place in each of Hillerman's books.My only complaint is that the map is made out of plain paper, and after being folded and unfolded a few times, I think it's going to begin to tear.

GREAT TOOL FOR HILLERMAN LOVERS
If you enjoy having as many details as possible when you read Tony H's wonderful Leaphorn/Chee sagas, this map will help you have a much better sense of the stories. I now keep it with whichever book I am reading, so I may recall where the various settings are in relation to one another. WORTH THE SMALL EXPENSE!

Tony Hillerman's Time Traveler Map
Tony Hillerman's stories take place over a wide-spread area.This map helps the reader locate important points in his various novels and see their visual relationship to each other.
This map is a great asset to any serious reader of Hillerman.

Very useful companion to Hillerman's mystery books
Too bad for me, this came out after I'd read most of Hillerman's mystery books. Lucky you if you haven't read most of the mysteries yet.

You can't use any old map as a companion for the Hillerman series, because most maps use criteria that don't fit sparsely populated areas or Navajo culture. Typical maps of the entire reservation portray it as mostly empty space.

The legendary AAA map that Leaphorn uses in the mysteries is excellent, but more detail than you need if you just want to follow along with the books. It also doesn't include fictitious features like "Short Mountain". (The "Guide to Indian Country" is free for AAA members. Not all offices carry it; I got mine from the Phoenix office.)

A reviewer of the first edition complained that this isn't a real map because it concentrates on places in the Hillerman series. But if you're just reading the series, that's exactly what you want: a specialized companion to the books.

Nice & useful but a little overpriced
This is a very attractive, quite interesting, annotated map locating many of the spots in Arizona, New Mexico, southern Colorado and southeastern Utah mentioned in Hillerman's Navajo novels. Along with marking these locations, it also offers some useful and interesting bits of pertinent information about them, though I think the design would have allowed for even more historical, cultural and geographic information relevant to the Hillerman books to be included. I suspect the Hillerman readers who probably would find it most useful are those who know at least a little bit about the area and are neither totally ignorant of the distances and geography involved nor are already intimately familiar with the region. (I've probably made about a dozen casual visits to the region, and I still found it fairly interesting.) One glaring lapse is the lack of even a simple grid system on the map to help you locate some of the spots marked by terribly similar-looking icons. And I frankly think that, even at the discounted Amazon price, this map is about $2-$4 more expensive than it really should be. ... Read more

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A comprehensive, two-sided hunting map, made of tear resistant and waterproof paper. It shows land ownership status, game information, climate info, shaded relief, tanks, stock ponds, catchments, and major highways into the unit.

Projection: Latitude & Longitude (black) and Township & Range (red)
Datum: NAD27
Size: 4.5" x 9" folded; 27" x 36" unfolded

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Land Beyond Maps won
Finalist, 2010 Lambda Literary Foundation, Lesbian Debut Fiction
Winner, 2009 New Mexico Book Award, Gay/Lesbian
Finalist, 2009 New Mexico Book Award, Historical Fiction
Winner, 2010 Arizona Book Publishing Award, Gay/Lesbian
Finalist, 2010 Arizona Book Publishing Award, Multicultural
Finalist, 2010 Golden Crown Literary Society, Dramatic/General Fiction
Winner, 2000 Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Full-Length Lesbian/Gay Historical Fiction Competition
Maida Tilchen won Honorable Mention, 2007 Astraea Foundation Lesbian Writers Award, Fiction.

"Crafts a mosaic of women's journeys to achieve their dreams as artists, naturalists, and entrepreneurs ... quickly moving... creates a vivid, realistic picture of life in Santa Fe and on the reservation." --New Mexico Magazine, April, 2009

"Readers interested in American history, Southwest and Native American cultures, and women's history will find much to enjoy while reading Land beyond Maps." --Reading New Mexico, by Victoria Erhart, 02/09

"Deserves to be a Finalist for the Debut Fiction Lammy...every person we meet is interesting...offers relief from the fears about money and survival that are not unlike those most of us feel today." --Lesbian News, Los Angeles, May, 2010

Land Beyond Maps tells of midlife lesbians and their friends in Santa Fe and the Navajolands through the boom and bust of 1929, closely based on the true story of a landscape photographer Laura Gilpin (1891-1979), who is considered America's most distinguished woman landscape photographer.
Ambitious archaeologists, zealous missionaries, quietly forceful Navajo women, and overeager tourists intensify this fast-paced story.

Based on extensive research, Land Beyond Maps is a novel of women's history, travel, biography, and adventure, drawing the reader into the lives of women who find new adventures, new careers, and new passions later in life. It depicts a romantic era not previously portrayed in contemporary fiction, despite the current interest in books about the Southwest and women's history.

As one reader described it, "Instead of frolicking about adobe mansions, we sleep in the straw of a stable loft and work in a modest photographer's studio. We see the tourist trade from behind the wheel of a tourbus, and we labor in the dirt in a low status vis-à-vis archaeologists from the Eastern Ivy schools."

Ann Bannon, author of The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, described Land Beyond Maps: "A time-the early 20th Century; and a place-the American Southwest-cast a net of enchantment around an intriguing cast. Here is fiercely shielded Navajo treasure, the interweaving of distant cultures, religious hellfire, and all the delicate and explosive power of forbidden love. Historical characters move through the rooms of story to mingle with the singular humans whom Maida Tilchen infuses with vivid life. Spellbinding people, enmeshed in the stark beauty of a Land Beyond Maps."

"Maida Tilchen's wonderful debut novel reads like an exciting adventure story of the early twentieth century West, but has at its core a moving and vital reclamation of an all but forgotten feminist past that startles us with its emotional vibrancy and deeply felt commitment to historical truth. The women characters live and breathe on every page. This is the heart of Tilchen's vision: the uncovering and documentation of a forgotten woman's world of love and bonding that exists within and far beyond this historical moment." -- Michael Bronski, author of Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps

"Land Beyond Maps joins a deep knowledge of New Mexico's landscape and history with the story of women who act against the cultural restraints of their time" -Summer Wood, author of "Arroyo"

"Knows and lovingly portrays the locales. With some homage to Willa Cather, this book takes its place in the literature of the Southwest." -- Miriam Sagan, author of "Map of the Lost" ... Read more

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Dreams Deferred in a Land Beyond Maps
Land Beyond Maps by Maida Tilchen is a meticulously researched novel that touches on and expands the lives of American Landscape photographer, Laura Gilpin; and her partner, Elizabeth (Betsy) Forster.The book also paints a portrait of the Southwest in the early 20th century and the people who live in its wilds.

The central theme of the book is the characters' relationship with the Navajo people, who are native to the area.The archeologists and treasure hunters sift through the remains of the Navajo past, seeking pottery, mummies, and jewelry.Photographers, tour guides, and reformers make their living by capturing Native American likenesses, culture, and souls.The only character in the book who seems genuinely interested in the Navajo as human beings is the nurse, Betsy.However, since her work is funded by donations, her service is hampered by her dependence on those with less humane agendas.

The story is told in separate, first-person narratives by its primary characters.In these musings, the characters express their preoccupation with time, measured by the dreams they have not yet accomplished.Laura sees former classmates receiving grants, awards and museum exhibitions for their photography, while she remains undiscovered.The trading post owners Morna and Jack, are also artists, who seek to finance their future work with profits from tourists who do not come.Jonnie, the former Massachusetts cannery worker, sees her dream of becoming a waitress at one of the famous Harvey House restaurants, growing more distant as she ages away from the "Harvey Girl" image.Ruth, the wealthy asthma sufferer, races against death, in her desire for freedom from her parents' control.All of these stories run in convergent lines that occasionally touch and overlap.These individual desires reach their apex on a Navajo gravesite, where the stories are finally woven tightly together, and the time for each of them is "now or never."

This book is not only interesting, but extremely well-written. The author shows great generosity in allowing the characters to speak for themselves, and an admirable restraint in not attempting to speak for the Navajo.I hope that this is only the first of many Tilchen novels in which she brings lesbian history to life in such an educational and entertaining way.

A welcome exercise in neo-regionalism
This is a really good book, and I join the chorus of those who've said they really, really like it. "Land Beyond Maps" has fascinating characters I really cared about. My favorite was Jonnie, who begins the book aspiring only to be a waitress at the La Fonda hotel, and ends as an aspiring archaeologist headed for college. The book does a great service to literary history by documenting an otherwise somewhat unknown world of lesbian and gay life in the American Southwest during the early twentieth century.

As a native of Albuquerque, I found it a welcome portrait of northern New Mexico during its romantic age. Oh, and it's a romping good read for the money.

It also strikes me that this book is a fascinating throwback (or throw forward) to the regionalist novels of the 1930s. This is to say that during the period in which Tilchen's book occurs, there was a vast flowering of art and literature that attempted to preserve and explore human experience outside the urban publishing centers of New York and Boston."Land Beyond Maps" does something very much like that, and given the current decentralization of publishing, it may indeed be part of the future of American letters.

A novel for all those who have or have wanted to follow their own star
"Land Without Maps" is a novel for all those who have or have wanted to follow their own star. It is set in the Southwest in the 1920's and is inspired by Laura Gilpin, a renowned photographer of Navajos and their land. Laura Gilpin's struggle to both create her art and achieve recognition is both the linchpin and the inspiration for the novel. Five main characters - all women - each speak in their own voice and, together, they blend determination and courage against the mysterious backdrop of the desert and its color, sound, sand and ancient cultures. The lives of a photographer, nurse, archeologist, tour bus driver and painter all intersect to a satisfying conclusion. Enjoy!

Inner voices, outward growth
This vivid novel is a new kind of page-turner, in which not plot ("what happens") but character development incites the reader's curiosity.The women in it are all seeking a more satisfying life in which their deepest longings, feelings and talents can be expressed.Their inner voices are authentically rendered, and their outward growth in the vivid landscape of Navajo country gradually brings them together as allies and friends. Carefully researched, attentive to historic time (the 1920s) and cultural location, Land Beyond Maps drew me in and kept me riveted to my chair until I had finished the very last page.

Worth reading for educational value alone
There are some periods of history rarely spoke of, but that doesn't mean they aren't interesting. "Land Beyond Maps" takes a trip back in time to 1929, a time when the Stock Market crash was saturating the headlines of the time. Instead, Tilchen focuses on a white woman who dedicated themselves to preserving the Navajo culture and their struggles during the time, as well as their arts. A light on a forgotten group, "Land Beyond Maps" is worth reading for educational value alone.
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Describes an archaeological dig off the coast of Georgia, the methods used to uncover artifacts there, and what was learned about a mission run there by the Spanish for the Guale Indians. ... Read more

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Slipcase contains the hardcover book, three star map posters and the Sounds of light DVD. Sounds of light DVD contain about an hour of Bearcloud's animations he has created over the last 11 years. The animations are geometric form expressed with music. ... Read more