"On Christmas Day, 1880, a young doctor from Madison, Indiana arrived at Keams Canyon, Arizona to be the physician at the Moqui [Hopi] Pueblo Indian Agency. From early in 1881 until the summer of 1888, Jeremiah Sullivan lived on the Hopi First Mesa, practicing medicine, participating in the social and ceremonial life of the community, and recording songs and narratives. Soon dismissed as agency physician, arrested, threatened with expulsion by military...

Details a day in the life of an Arizona girl of Hopi descent, looking at her family, the history of her tribe, and some traditional ceremonies and customs that are still observed today.

"J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J.R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J.R. would strain to hear in that plummy baritone the secrets of masculinity and identity. Though J.R.'s mother was his world, his rock, he craved something more, something faintly and hauntingly audible only in The Voice. At eight years old,...

"The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes--a Native American icon and World War 2 legend who spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero"-- Ira Hayes was a Native American icon and World War II legend who famously helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima -- but spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. Hayes, along with five other Marines, was captured in Joe Rosenthal's iconic photograph of raising the stars and...