Highwater, Jamake

Overview

Works:	153 works in 438 publications in 3 languages and 20,640 library holdings
Genres:	Juvenile works Fiction Folklore History Historical fiction Guidebooks Biographical fiction Music Biography Legends
Roles:	Author, Composer, Author of screenplay, Narrator, Performer, Choreographer, Editor, Host, Director, Dancer
Classifications:	PZ7.H5443, FIC

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Jamake Highwater

Shadow show : an autobiographical insinuation by Jamake Highwater( Book )
Journey to the sky : a novel about the true adventures of two men in search of the lost Maya kingdom by Jamake Highwater( Book )
Jamake Highwater discussing Anpao at Portage Public Library by Jamake Highwater( Recording )
Jamake Highwater papers by Jamake Highwater( )
Meet the author by Jamake Highwater( Visual )

PAD/D pamphlet file : miscellaneous uncataloged material by Jamake Highwater( )
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Transitions : Jamake Highwater by Richard Philp( )
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Leslie Hunter Whitten Papers by Les Whitten( )
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Interview: Jack Marks by Jamake Highwater( Visual )

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Most widely held works by Jamake Highwater

Anpao : an American Indian odyssey by Jamake Highwater( Book )

25 editions published between 1977 and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,462 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

The primal mind : vision and reality in Indian America by Jamake Highwater( Book )

24 editions published between 1981 and 1999 in English and French and held by 1,323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Dance : rituals of experience by Jamake Highwater( Book )

30 editions published between 1978 and 1997 in English and held by 1,243 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Song from the earth : American Indian painting by Jamake Highwater( Book )

9 editions published between 1976 and 1980 in English and held by 1,216 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Takes you into the work of twentieth century Indian painters, who have sought through their art both individual expression and a rediscovery of what it means to be Indian

Native land : sagas of the Indian Americas by Jamake Highwater( Book )

10 editions published between 1986 and 2001 in English and held by 1,072 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Explores the major Indian civilizations that flourished in North, Central, and South America before the arrival of the Europeans

Ritual of the wind : North American Indian ceremonies, music, and dances by Jamake Highwater( Book )

11 editions published between 1977 and 1984 in English and French and held by 1,006 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Myth and sexuality by Jamake Highwater( Book )

14 editions published between 1990 and 1995 in English and German and held by 856 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Carries the study of myth and its effects into a key aspect of life: sexuality and shows how vast a variety of sexual attitudes and activities have flourished from place to place and age to age

Legend days by Jamake Highwater( Book )

4 editions published in 1984 in English and held by 836 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Arts of the Indian Americas : leaves from the sacred tree by Jamake Highwater( Book )

11 editions published between 1983 and 2009 in English and held by 812 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Volkskunst van de Indianen uit Noord-, Midden- en Zuid-Amerika

The Sun, he dies : a novel about the end of the Aztec world by Jamake Highwater( Book )

17 editions published between 1980 and 1999 in English and held by 786 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

How could Cortes with only 600 soldiers, conquer the mighty Aztec empire? The story is told from the Aztec point of view through the words of Nanautzin, chief speaker for the Aztec Lord, Montezuma

Moonsong lullaby by Jamake Highwater( Book )

4 editions published in 1981 in English and held by 748 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

As the moon moves across the sky, it observes the activities of an Indian camp and of the natural phenomena surrounding it

The ceremony of innocence by Jamake Highwater( Book )

4 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 661 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Many smokes, many moons : a chronology of American Indian history through Indian art by Jamake Highwater( Book )

5 editions published in 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 597 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

With emphasis on the tribes in North America, uses the art and artifacts of various Indian cultures to illustrate events affecting their history from earliest times through 1973

Fodor's Indian America by Jamake Highwater( Book )

5 editions published between 1975 and 1976 in English and held by 551 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Words in the blood : contemporary Indian writers of North and South America by Charles A Eastman( Book )

5 editions published in 1984 in English and held by 544 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Journey to the sky : a novel about the true adventures of two men in search of the lost Maya kingdom by Jamake Highwater( Book )

10 editions published between 1978 and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 527 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The sweet grass lives on : fifty contemporary North American Indian artists by Jamake Highwater( Book )

9 editions published in 1980 in English and held by 526 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

I wear the morning star by Jamake Highwater( Book )

2 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 512 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

The mythology of transgression : homosexuality as metaphor by Jamake Highwater( Book )

11 editions published between 1996 and 2001 in English and held by 490 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The author explores "how mythologies from ancient times to the present have shaped the ways we think about social 'abnormality' and alienation ... He also pays special attention to the debates currently raging in science regarding the biology of homosexuality."--Jacket

Eyes of darkness : a novel by Jamake Highwater( Book )

2 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 437 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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