People of the Blue Water: A Record of Life Among the Walapai and Havasupai Indians

by Flora Gregg Iliff (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1985

  $3.29

  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

• New

  Paperback
  1985

  $22.07

  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