Spider Woman's Children: Navajo Weavers Today Tlingit Absentee Indians and Other Poems

Absentee Indians and Other Poems evokes personal yet universal experiences of the places that Native Americans call home

This gives them extra strength by the time they start school

her six-year-old brother

Virgil Wounded Horse

Henry Mihesuah fell in love with and married a white woman and then served a dangerous tour of duty in the Marines in post–World War II China

Spider Woman's Children: Navajo Weavers Today Tlingit Absentee Indians and Other PoemsNavajo rugs set the gold standard for handwoven textiles in the U. S. But what about the people who create these treasures? Spider Woman's Children is the inside story, told by two women who are both deeply embedded in their own culture and considered among the very most skillful and artistic of Navajo weavers today. Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete are fifth generation weavers who grew up at the fabled Two Grey Hills trading post. Their