Indian Country: Sacred Ground, Native Peoples - Hardcover

Photographed and researched throughout Native American ancestral lands in the Great Southwest, Four Corners and Northwest Mexico, Indian Country includes essays, literary quotes, and descriptive captions with Native American names and places; bibliography, literature cited, and Afterword "Fragile Legacy"; 3 color maps of the Author's Journey through Apachería, Dinétah and Tusqua, and Papaguería; Glossary (Native American words and translations from primary sources). The color photographs feature portraits, ceremonies, sacred lands, cultural and historic sites, national and tribal parks, wilderness areas and biosphere reserves: Ancestral Puebloan, Hisat.sinom, Hohokam, Mogollon and Salado cultural sites; Agathla Peak, Baboquivari Mountains, Barry M. Goldwater Range, Basaseachic Falls National Park (Chihuahua), Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Coal Mine Canyon, Cochise Stronghold National Register of Historic Places, Colorado River, Desemboque (Sonora), Dragoon Mountains, Geronimo's grave Apache Indian Prisoner of War Cemetery, Grand Canyon National Park UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ironwood Forest National Monument, Kachina Peaks Wilderness, Little Colorado River Gorge, Mohawk Sand Dunes, McClellan Wash National Register of Historic Places, Navajo National Monument, Painted Desert, Pinaleño Mountains (Mount Graham), Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Saguaro National Park, Sierra Madre Occidental (Mexico), Superstition Mountains Wilderness, Tiburon Island and Sea of Cortés UNESCO Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California (Sonora), Tutuveni National Register of Historic Places ("Hopi Clan Rocks"), Upper Gulf of California UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (Sonora), Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge

"As a medicine man, I practice my beliefs by praying and singing during the traditional ceremonies that are sacred to us Apaches. We pray to the Four Directions--East, South, West, and North--and we have respect for every being. Through his words and pictures, John Annerino conveys the spiritual significance of our peoples' sacred places to those who aren't familiar with them. I have enjoyed knowing and working with him through the years."
--Robertson Preston, Medicine Man, San Carlos Apache

"John Annerino is one of a handful of photographers with a real empathy for the West. His work has an edge to it, reflecting the sheer size and power of his subject - a subject he treats with respect and love. This land, which is so much a part of the American psyche, now threatened by pollution, by the spread of human settlement, and by exploitation, is as raw and as exciting in Annerino's work as it is in our mind's eye." 
--Guy Cooper, Picture Editor, Newsweek