A Green Tree & A Dry Tree: A Novel of Chiapas

Between 1868 and 1870 the Tzotzil Indians of Chiapas, Mexico, rose against the priests and soldiers of their white masters. A Green Tree and a Dry Tree, first published in 1972 and now available for the first time in paperback, tells the story of this rebellion, led by a charismatic Tzotzil visionary. "Vividly re-creates one of the most extraordinary Indian revitalization movements in Latin American history. . . . the first effort I have seen to use fiction as a medium for reconstructing an important historical event from the perspective of a participant group whose only record of it is oral. . . . a kind of people's history."—Gary Gossen, American Anthropologist