Best Selling Books by Jamake Highwater

Traditional tales from North American Indian tribes woven into one story that relates the adventures of one boy as he grows to manhood.

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY 35,000 B.C. TO 1973 A.D.

This book presents a powerful view of the history of dance, contrasting its role in Western civilization with its significance in other cultures. Highwater--a renowned critic, author, and lecturer on art, theater, music, and dance--links the history of dance to cultural forces as diverse as Karl Marx and Elvis Presley. Beginning with the original, ritualistic, and primal forms of dance, he traces its decline into empty ceremonial forms while all along insisting that dance is a fundamental life impulse made visible in motion--a spontaneous transformation of experience into metaphoric meaning. Considering the historical and creative context from which dance emerged, Highwater goes on to point out the specific contributions and cultural influences of such 20th-century dance giants as Isadora Duncan, Twyla Tharp, Robert Wilson, George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Alwin Nikolais, Erick Hawkins, Jose Limon, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, and Garth Fagan. Also examined are many newer artists, such as Bebe Miller and the Urban Bush Women.

The popular writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry examines how people who stand outside of society because of their sexual orientation, physical appearance, ideas, artistic inclinations, or ethnic heritage, often achieve lasting and even profound influence upon the culture at large. He combines his own experience as a gay Native American with sources in the arts, literature, biology, psychology, and anthropology. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This book contains a series of personal views that have come out of the authors experience in two widely separated cultures and lifestyles.

A Santee Sioux Indian named Yesa, after being taken at age sixteen to live among white men, becomes a doctor and then returns to the reservation to live as an Indian.

Sitko Ghost Horse escapes from the dying city into the desert, where he encounters the dream world of a tribe that seems to be from another time and place. He is initiated into a ritual that requires him to verify his identity.

Alone and destitute after the death of her husband, Amana finds lasting friendship, love and disillusionment, and eventually moves to a trading post town where she strives to give her daughter and grandchildren a sense of pride in their Indian heritage.

A young American attorney and his British architect and artist friend journey by steamboat and mule through Central America, where they stumble upon the forgotten Mayan civilization. Their historic journey is the basis for Journey to the Sky.

Abandoned in the wilderness after smallpox devastates her tribe, eleven-year-old Amana acquires from Grandfather Fox a warrior''s courage and a hunter''s prowess, gifts that sustain her as she watches the progressive disintegration of her people.

Sitko, growing up in a hostile white world that tries to make him renounce his heritage as an American Indian, finds refuge in the pictures he paints.

See "Homoeroticism" and "Homosexuality" in the index.

An introduction to the achievements of 50 contemporary North American Indian artists. Includes brief biographies of each.

Traces the rise and decline of the Olmecs, Maya, Incas, Aztecs, and the major tribes of North America and discusses the culture of each tribe

A fictionalized retelling of the Hindu legend of Prince Rama who, while in exile from his father''s kingdom, fights and wins a great battleagainst the forces of evil led by the demon king Ravana.