Desert Indian Woman
Subtitle: Stories and Dreams
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780816520084
Subjects: Manuel, Frances Sallie,; Women; Folklore; Biography & Autobiography; History - General History; Tohono O'Odham Indians; Biography/Autobiography; Social life and customs; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Biography; 1912-
Description: Basket weaver, storyteller, and tribal elder, Frances Manuel is a living preserver of Tohono O'odham culture. Speaking to anthropologist Deborah Neff, who has known her for over twenty years, she tells of O'odham culture and society and of the fortunes and misfortunes of Native Americans in the southwestern borderlands over the past century.