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If a picture is worth one thousand words, then Marcia Keegan's latest book is a chronicle with much to say of the similarities between two ancient cultures that have sustained the human legacy through epochs of change. While our current world view has been shaped by the classic traditions of Greece and Rome, the Renaissance in Europe and the industrial revolution, the Native American and Tibetan Cultures were thriving in a world of isolation from modernity, maintaining their own traditions handed down through their elders. The Native American emergence stories and world cycles and ceremonies are as alive today as they were in prehistoric times. The Tibetan rituals date back to their root culture of Shang Shung, prior to ten thousand years ago, as the indigenous culture for the Tibetan plateau. Both cultures evolved with little contact between each other until the 1970s. When the Dalai Lama first visited North America in 1979, Marcia Keegan was there to arrange the initial meeting .

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Marcia Keegan has been traveling, photographing and chronicling the world's indigenous cultures for the past fifty years. Among the best-known books of this nationally known photographer are Pueblo People: Ancient Traditions, Modern Lives; Mother Earth, Father Sky; Enduring Culture; Taos Pueblo and Its Sacred Blue Lake; Southwest Indian Cookbook; Pueblo Girls and New Mexico. Her photographs are part of the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the White House, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Kansas City Museum, the Philbrook Art Museum in Tulsa, the Albuquerque Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe. An activist for the promotion of Native culture, Keegan was a long time member on the board of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts; served as a member of the Popay Statuary Hall Commission; She has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council and received the Governor's award for outsta

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