ON THE GLEAMING WAY [SOLD]

ON THE GLEAMING WAY - Navajos, Eastern Pueblos, Zunis, Hopis, Apaches, and Their Land; and Their Meanings to the World

John Collier, U. S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs 1933-1945

Publisher; Sage Books, Denver, 1962

Softcover, 163 pages, vividly illustrated by photos

Table of Contents

I.    Another Time Dimension Than Ours

II.   The Land and Its Indian Peoples

III.  The Many-Sidedness and Sophistication of the Tribes

IV.   Mountain Peaks of the Submerged Social Continent

V.    The Navajos

VI.   The Pueblos

VII.  The Taos Indians’ Sacred Wilderness

VIII. The Apaches

IX.   Frank Hamilton Cushing and the Zunis

X.    In World Perspective

From the Publisher

No feeble will is that of the Indian tribes of the American Southwest. They have occupied the splendor of the universe of things—the upland portion of the American Southwest—for more thousands of years than anyone knows.  They have lived the dangerous life.  John Collier notes, “have breathed tides of change, in prehistory, and not only since the white man came, they have incorporated change following upon change; and their continuity has not been broken, the inward and outward direction . . . altered.”

Once Collier thought with fatalism, that these peoples would not go on in their own ways.  But they have demonstrated that they can. Now, as colonial peoples everywhere, and as the Indians of the Americas renew their hopes, the American Southwest is a magnetic center which draws the attention of many lands in all continents.

Without doubt, John Collier is the best man in the world to attempt such a book as this, as once descriptive, lyrical, philosophical, and prophetic.  It is a book about a place and some peoples, but also about the human spirit.