Taos Pueblo Spring

Taos Pueblo Spring
Author: Taos Pueblo Tiwa Language Program
Publisher: 7th Generation
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2023-05-30
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1570672180

This illustrations-only book tells the story of the Red Willow People of Taos Pueblo in present-day northern New Mexico. Taos Pueblo is known to be one of the longest continuously inhabited communities, designated both a UNESCO World heritage Site and a National Historic Landmark. This delightful board book is part of the Taos Pueblo Four Seasons series which was created by the Taos Pueblo’s Tiwa Language Program to preserve the Tiwa culture and revitalize the unwritten Tiwa language by teaching it to younger generations. Many other Indigenous languages also need to be revitalized, so it is the hope of the Taos Pueblo’s Tiwa Language Program that other American Indian nations will find the books useful to teach their languages to their children. Each season features a distinct and well-known Taos Pueblo artist. The beautiful, hand-drawn illustrations will also educate young children about the four seasons of the year and the plants and animals in the area. All proceeds of the book support the Taos Pueblo’s Tiwa Language Program.

Taos Pueblo Spring

Taos Pueblo Spring
Author: The Taos Pueblo Tiwa Language Program
Publisher: 7th Generation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-05-30
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781570674143

The Spring book depicts life on the Taos Pueblo as nature blooms.

Fragments of Spirit

Fragments of Spirit
Author: Sara Frances
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781734259018

60-year photographic retrospective and personal memoir by Sara Frances, M.Photog.CR (Master Photographic Craftsman), of the Taos Pueblo, the Village of Taos, Northern New Mexico and its artists; 204-page art book includes 230 photographs in sepia tone, full color and interpreted stylings, 35 poems by the author, 35,000-word memoir and commentary on artistic inspiration, photographic techniques and artist acquaintances; eight forewords, map, timeline, image index and bibliography.

Kiki's Journey

Kiki's Journey
Author: Kristy Orona-Ramirez
Publisher: Children's Book Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780892392148

When eight-year-old Kiki travels to Taos Pueblo, the reservation where her parents grew up, she confronts her identity as both a Tiwa Indian and a big city girl.

Taos Pueblo--Blue Lake

Taos Pueblo--Blue Lake
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Indian Affairs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1969
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN:

New Buffalo

New Buffalo
Author: Arthur Kopecky
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826333957

Kopecky's journals take us back to the beginnings of New Buffalo, one of the most successful of the communes that dotted the country in the 1960s and 1970s, where he and his comrades encountered magic, wisdom, a mix of people, the Peyote Church, planting, and hard winters.

Taos Pueblo--Blue Lake

Taos Pueblo--Blue Lake
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1969
Genre:
ISBN:

Eva Mirabal

Eva Mirabal
Author: Lois P. Rudnick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2021-02-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780890136621

Eva Mirabal (Eah-Ha-Wa, Fast Growing Corn, 1920-1968) studied for six years at the Dorothy Dunn Studio art program in Santa Fe, where she was a favorite of the program's founder and served as an assistant to Dunn's successor, Geronima Montoya (P'Otsunu, 1915-2015, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo). By the time she was twenty years old, Mirabal was exhibiting in museums and galleries across the country. Mirabal's first exposure to art was through her father Pedro Mirabal who was a popular model, along with Eva's father-in-law Geronimo Gomez, for members of the Taos Art Society and for modern artists who came to Taos as part of Mabel Dodge Luhan's circle. Pedro sat for a bronze bust created by Maurice Sterne and for a portrait by Nicolai Fechin, Pietro, now in the collections of the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. Gomez, one of the leaders of the Peyote religion at Taos Pueblo, is the non-traditional figure depicted in Ernest Blumenschein's controversial painting Star Road and White Sun. During World War II, Eva enlisted in the Woman's Army Corp (WACs) in 1943, the only WAC assigned as a full-time artist. She was very likely the first Native American woman to publish a comic strip, the feisty G. I. Gertie. During the same period, she worked on two significant mural commissions. After the war, Eva was a visiting professor of art at Southern Illinois Normal University. Following her return to Taos Pueblo, she studied at the Taos Valley Art School on the GI Bill. Throughout her lifetime, her paintings and murals received national acclaim. After her death in 1968, Eva's teenage sons discovered a treasure trove of her life story. In a huge pine box that she had nailed shut, she placed scores of her drawings; family photographs; diary entries; newspaper clippings; and hundreds of letters related to her life and work that she received from curators, gallery owners, friends, and teachers over the years. Drawing on this rich and invaluable archive, as well as on interviews with family members, Rudnick tells the story of Eva's brilliant but brief and impactful career as a Taos Pueblo artist, along with the story of the artistic legacy carried on by her son Jonathan Warm Day Coming.

Winter in Taos

Winter in Taos
Author: Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2013-02-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1611391377

"Winter in Taos" starkly contrasts Luhan's memoirs, published in four volumes and inspired by Marcel Proust's "Remembrances of Things Past." They follow her life through three failed marriages, numerous affairs, and ultimately a feeling of "being nobody in myself," despite years of psychoanalysis and a luxurious lifestyle on two continents among the leading literary, art and intellectual personalities of the day. "Winter in Taos" unfolds in an entirely different pattern, uncluttered with noteworthy names and ornate details. With no chapters dividing the narrative, Luhan describes her simple life in Taos, New Mexico, this "new world" she called it, from season to season, following a thread that spools out from her consciousness as if she's recording her thoughts in a journal. "My pleasure is in being very still and sensing things," she writes, sharing that pleasure with the reader by describing the joys of adobe rooms warmed in winter by aromatic cedar fires; fragrant in spring with flowers; and scented with homegrown fruits and vegetables being preserved and pickled in summer. Having wandered the world, Luhan found her home at last in Taos. "Winter in Taos" celebrates the spiritual connection she established with the "deep living earth" as well as the bonds she forged with Tony Luhan, her "mountain." This moving tribute to a land and the people who eked a life from it reminds readers that in northern New Mexico, where the seasons can be harshly beautiful, one can bathe in the sunshine until "'untied are the knots in the heart,' for there is nothing like the sun for smoothing out all difficulties." Born in 1879 to a wealthy Buffalo family, Mabel Dodge Luhan earned fame for her friendships with American and European artists, writers and intellectuals and for her influential salons held in her Italian villa and Greenwich Village apartments. In 1917, weary of society and wary of a world steeped in war, she set down roots in remote Taos, New Mexico, then publicized the tiny town's inspirational beauty to the world, drawing a steady stream of significant guests to her adobe estate, including artist Georgia O'Keeffe, poet Robinson Jeffers, and authors D.H. Lawrence and Willa Cather. Luhan could be difficult, complex and often cruel, yet she was also generous and supportive, establishing a solid reputation as a patron of the arts and as an author of widely read autobiographies. She died in Taos in 1962.