The Kiva

The Kiva
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1997
Genre: Anthropology
ISBN:

The International Bank of Bob

The International Bank of Bob
Author: Bob Harris
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0802777511

Explains how the author was compelled to help the world's working poor, describing how he discovered the Kiva.org micro-loan portal and his visits to world regions where the organization's loans have enabled people and small businesses to revitalize.

The Sound of Drums

The Sound of Drums
Author: Lloyd Kiva New
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2016-07-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 161139466X

In a series of personal anecdotes, supplemented by photographs, essays, and manuscripts, The Sound of Drums is a memoir of celebrated Cherokee artist, fashion designer, and educator Lloyd Kiva New (1916–2002). An important figure in Native American art, d

Fieldiana

Fieldiana
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1272
Release: 1903
Genre: Anthropology
ISBN:

Living the Sky

Living the Sky
Author: Ray A. Williamson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1987
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780806120348

Imagine the North American Indians as astronomers carefully watching the heavens, charting the sun through the seasons, or counting the sunrises between successive lumar phases. Then imagine them establishing observational sites and codified systems to pass their knowledge down through the centuries and continually refine it. A few years ago such images would have been abruptly dismissed. Today we are wiser. Living the Sky describes the exciting archaeoastronomical discoveries in the United States in recent decades. Using history, science, and direct observation, Ray A. Williamson transports the reader into the sky world of the Indians. We visit the Bighorn Medicine Wheel, sit with a Zuni sun priest on the winter solstice, join explorers at the rites of the Hopis and the Navajos, and trek to Chaco Canyon to make direct on-site observations of celestial events.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1911
Genre: America
ISBN:

The Kiva and the Mosque

The Kiva and the Mosque
Author: Kayt C. Peck
Publisher: America Star Books
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781462641574

Answers rarely come from expected sources. The need for answers to save a troubled humanity forces Kidwell Brown and Aisha Sudda, two total strangers, into roles they never could have anticipated. Kidwell and her life-partner, Anna Montoya, live a quiet life in their mountain home until the day Kidwell is drawn to visit the Kiva cave at Bandelier National Monument. Hundreds of miles away, Aisha Sudda Fletcher lives another quiet existence, along with her husband, Greg, until the day she is drawn to visit a garden beside a vandalized mosque. On that day, both Kidwell and Aisha are chosen. These humble women soon learn that the time of prophets has not yet passed. Their mystical guides direct the women to "find their allies," and so the lives of Kidwell, Aisha, Anna and Greg are forever intertwined. They will face victory and exile, mystery and certainty. In the end they may well change humanity. A master machinist once told Kayt C. Peck that she did with words what he did with metal. Her career has included serving as a journalist, a U.S. Naval Reserve public affairs officer, and a grants writer raising over $30 million for public and nonprofit organizations.