George Wharton James spent years among the peoples of northern Arizona and here describes the Hopi villages and their history, Hopi customs and religion and the famous Snake Dance, then the Navajo, the Wallapai and the Havasupai of the canyon. He records their own accounts of their origins alongside desert recollections of his own.
A valuable early record of the Southwest’s peoples, though its outlook is that of a white writer of 1903. Download the free EPUB.