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The Delight Makers

The Delight Makers

Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse
Lummis, Charles Fletcher
Editions, Mint

Paperback

Series: Mint Editions (Native Stories, Indigenous Voices)

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.99

ISBN10: 1513218409
ISBN13: 9781513218403
Publisher: Mint Ed
Published: Nov 16 2021
Pages: 362
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

The Delight Makers (1890) is a novel by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier with an introduction by Charles Fletcher Lummis. Written after nearly a decade of research spent living among the Pueblo tribes of New Mexico, The Delight Makers attempts to recreate the past through a blend of fiction and historical analysis. This unique anthropological novel, although naturally limited in scope due to Bandelier's western worldview, is nevertheless a fascinating example of creative scholarship and a well-intentioned project by an important preservationist of America's indigenous history. It is a narrow valley, nowhere broader than half a mile; and from where it begins in the west to where it closes in a dark and gloomy entrance, scarcely wide enough for two men to pass abreast, in the east, its length does not exceed six miles. Its southern rim is formed by the slope of a timbered mesa, and that slope is partly overgrown by shrubbery. Set in the beautiful landscape of New Mexico, The Delight Makers is the story of the Queres, ancestors of the modern Pueblos. Once a powerful people ruled by the secretive Koshare, or Delight Makers, the Queres faced opposition between local clans and eventually engaged in a catastrophic war with the Tehua tribe. This edition of The Delight Makers is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

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