Spider Woman's Children: Navajo Weavers Today Tlingit Absentee Indians and Other Poems

Absentee Indians and Other Poems evokes personal yet universal experiences of the places that Native Americans call home

Virgil Wounded Horse

its role in the foundation of the state

Her Métis family has lived in their tightly knit rural community for generations

Spider Woman's Children: Navajo Weavers Today Tlingit Absentee Indians and Other PoemsNavajo rugs set the gold standard for handwoven textiles in the U. S. But what about the people who create these treasures? Spider Woman's Children is the inside story, told by two women who are both deeply embedded in their own culture and considered among the very most skillful and artistic of Navajo weavers today. Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete are fifth generation weavers who grew up at the fabled Two Grey Hills trading post. Their