People of the Blue Water: A Record of Life Among the Walapai and Havasupai Indians
by Flora Gregg Iliff
University of Arizona Press, 1985
Paper: 978-0-8165-0925-6 | eISBN: 978-0-8165-4601-5 (standard)
Library of Congress Classification E99.H75I44 1985
Dewey Decimal Classification 979.100497
ABOUT THIS BOOK
"Flora Gregg left her Oklahoma home in 1900, answering a call for teachers on an Indian reservation in northern Arizona. . . . Her book . . . is a simple but strangely moving document. She is good at description and a keen observer of people and customs."—Journal of Arizona History
"Gives a vivid picture, not only of tribal peoples in transition, but of the motives and methods of a dedicated, compassionate teacher in an era of forced Indian assimilation."—Books of the Southwest
"Delightful reading about an exotic life in a stupendous natural setting."—New York Times
"Gives a vivid picture, not only of tribal peoples in transition, but of the motives and methods of a dedicated, compassionate teacher in an era of forced Indian assimilation."—Books of the Southwest
"Delightful reading about an exotic life in a stupendous natural setting."—New York Times
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