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The life of the black religious servant Ursula de Jesús (1604-1666) has remained one of the best-kept historical secrets of the New World. This English language translation of the diary she began in 1650 allows us to hear the voice of the former slave turned spiritualist.Born into slavery in Lima, Peru, Ursula entered a convent at the age of thirteen to serve a nun, and spent the next twenty-eight years as one of hundreds of slaves whose exhausting daily work afforded little time to contemplate religious matters. After surviving a potentially fatal accident, she chose a spiritual path, though remained a slave until one of the nuns purchased her freedom. Ursula began to see visions and communicate more frequently with God. Dead souls eager to diminish their stay in Purgatory approached her, and it was then that she assumed the role of intercessor on their behalf.Ursula's diary conveys the innuendos of convent life, but above all it offers a direct experience of baroque Catholic spirituality from the perspective of a woman of color. Nancy E. van Deusen selected approximately fifty pages from Ursula's diary to appear here as Ursula wrote them, in Spanish. Van Deusen's introduction situates Ursula's text within the milieu of medieval and early modern female spirituality, addresses the complexities of racial inequality, and explores the power of the written word.ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORSNancy E. van Deusen is professor of history at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.Lyman L. Johnson is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is also the general editor for UNM Press's Dialogos series.ACCLAIM"This book is fascinating...a valuable asset to colonial Latin American Literature."-- Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies"This book offers fascinating insight into the Roman Catholic Church's role in the 17th-century slave trade and its harsh views of race and gender. As for de Jesús, she comes across as a woman of great wisdom and deep spirit who never turned bitter but who embraced the power of a greater humanity through an unshakeable faith. Her story should be read and savored."-- New York Resident"[The Souls of Purgatory] is a significant contribution to scholarship, and the editor has managed to make Ursula accessible to a wide and no doubt appreciative readership."-- Sixteenth Century Journal"Van Deusen's work has brought to light a fascinating historical character whose autobiographical writings impact upon many different areas of academic research."-- H-Net Reviews

This study argues that the collapse of Classic Maya civilization was driven by drought. Between A.D. 800 and 1000, unrelenting drought killed millions of Maya people with famine and thirst and initiated a cascade of internal collapses that destroyed their civilization.

One hundred documents written by Dine men, women, and children are collected in this book. Discovered during Iverson's research for the book, these letters, speeches, and petitions, almost all previously unpublished, provide a uniquely moving portrait of the Dine during an era in which they were fighting to defend their lands and build the Navajo Nation.

Offers a glimpse of a living American Indian religious tradition. This book includes descriptions of the selection and training of a medicine person, medicine plant uses, and ceremonies. Includes descriptions of the selection and training of a medicine person, medicine plant uses, and ceremonies of American Indians.

All students of the frontier army as well as aficionados with a special interest in the Buffalo Soldiers will find this an invaluable tool. Drawing on a wide variety of periodicals, military records, and letters, the book covers such key topics as the legislative origin of the inclusion of black soldiers in the army.

In his latest study of the Navajo language, Professor Robert W. Young tackles the obstacle that Navajo appears to be a verb-centered language in which all the verbs are ""irregular"".

Explores the ethical, legal, and intellectual issues related to excavating, selling, collecting, and owning cultural artefacts. Contributors, representing archaeology, law, museum administration, art history, and philosophy, suggest how the numerous interested groups can co-operate to resolve cultural heritage, ownership, and repatriation issues and improve the protection of cultural property.

"e;This collection of Hal Rothman's wide-ranging, brash, and brilliant essays on Las Vegas offers up a treasury of insights on the follies and possibilities of the New West. Confident, passionate, learned and, yes, wise, Rothman is simply one of the most important voices writing on the region today. He is also a hell of a lot of fun to read."e; - Virginia Scharff, professor of history and Director, Center for the Southwest, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and Women of the West chair at the Institute for the Study of the American West, Autry National Center, Los Angeles"e;Hal Rothman has been enlightening me, irritating me, surprising me, and making me laugh for twenty years. Reading his columns reminds me why. He has long been one of the brashest, loudest, smartest, and most original voices in the West. Not even ALS could quiet him. These columns aren't the same as talking to him, but they come close."e; - Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Stanford University"e;Hal Rothman is both the greatest Western historian of his generation and an H. L. Mencken in cowboy boots. Here is a magnificent collection of his opinion, wit, and wisdom."e; - Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and Buda's Wagon

Modern Navajo tribal government originated in 1923 solely to approve oil leases. This book tracks the major changes brought to the Navajo people in the six decades following the discovery and exploitation of oil and gas on tribal lands.

Explores the role of sex and gender on California's multi-cultural frontier under the influences of Spain, Mexico, and the United States.

The verb is the most important and the most complex part of Navajo grammar. For the first time, students and scholars interested in the Navajo language have a book that presents the verb system in a step-by-step and thorough fashion. By providing easy-to-follow descriptions with abundant examples, this book unravels the complexity of Navajo and reveals its expressiveness.

Filled with the history, geography, sociology and anthropology this 2nd revised edition contains more than 7000 names of features throughout the state - towns, mountains, rivers, canyons, post offices, even abandoned settlements, offering glimpses of the lives and values of the people who named them.

Walters' novel is a thriller centred on Smithsonian researchers persecuted by Native American ghosts. Human ears, strung like beads on a cord; scalps with hair and ears still intact; infant bones in a medicine bundle; corpses, whole, in a cardboard box. These artefacts in an obscure corner of the Smithsonian cause Indian ghosts to haunt, torment, and murder researchers.

'The story of the 1980 convict uprising at the New Mexico State Penitentiary at Santa Fe...extremely well researched, with copious, detailed footnotes. Highly recommended.' -Library Journal

First published in 1954 and long out of print, this novel of pre-Hispanic Indian life in the Southwest combines the authenticity of an anthropological report with the suspense of a mystery novel. The author, best known as an anthropologist during his lifetime, is now recognised as a major Native American novelist. Runner in the Sun is sure to become a classic of Native American fiction.

This is an eloquently written autoethnography in which researcher Hillary S. Webb seeks to understand the indigenous Andean concept of yanantin or `complementary opposites'. Webb embarks on a personal journey of understanding the yanantin worldview of complementary duality through participant observation and reflection on her individual experience.

The compelling biography of a unique western rancher constantly adjusting to the inroads of modernity into his traditional way of life.

Provides a detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day. It traces the rise of the mysterious Pueblo League between 1700 and 1821, and provides a detailed analysis of Pueblo lands after 1821.

Traces implications of a previously unrecognized image of the solar year in the Madrid Codex to find new meanings in the Dresden Codex and the Maya calendar system and a regional settlement organization in Yucatan.

Containing more than three hundred photographs, this is written primarily for students of arms, but also contains material of interest to historians, museum specialists, collectors, and dealers of antique arms.

This is a tribute to Friedl Dicker-Brandeis art of Vienna in 1920s, and her teaching methods to Czech children sent to Terezin Concentration Camp north of Prague during WWII. This elegant, well-documented collection does several things of great importance. First, it traces the career of one of the Bauhaus first students, providing insights into a legendary school. Second, it shows in moving detail how Friedl Dicker-Brandeis continued to create beautiful objects and to teach young people in horrifying circumstances. Dicker-Brandeis story is one of quietly defiant creativity in the face of appalling destruction.

Traces the roots of the mining law and details the way its unintended consequences have shaped western legal thought from Nome to Tombstone and how it has informed much of the lore of the settlement of the West.

This impassioned book, both a loving description and a critique, defines urban values in a milieu that is rarely recognised as a city. Updated over ten years after its initial publication, it is more relevant than ever to Albuquerque's future. A new chapter describes Albuquerque's recent development, placing it in the context of urban growth in the West.