Frank Waters, einer der renommiertesten Kenner der verschiedenen Indianerstämme und deren Lebensformen, erzählt vom Goldrausch, dem kargen Leben der Siedler, von Mythen und Ritualen der Indianer und deren erbittertem Überlebenskampf. Dieses Standardwerk bietet einen Querschnitt seiner Beobachtungen und Deutungen der indianischen Kultur.
The great variety of wild and beautiful desert is seen through the photographs of landscape photographer David Muench and the words of author Frank Waters.
In this unique collection, some thirty Hopi elders reveal for the first time in written form the Hopi world-view.
FIRST POCKET BOOKS PRINTING. Aug. 1971 mass market paperback, 15th printing. Frank Waters (Book of the Hopi). The story of Martiniano, the man who killed the deer, is a timeless story of Pueblo Indian sin and redemption, and of the conflict between Indian and white laws; written with a poetically charged beauty of style, a purity of conception, and a thorough understanding of Indian values.
