Cambridge University Press, 1979. — 120 pp. — ISBN: 0-521-22640-6. Drawing on current theory in symbolic anthropology and sociolinguistics, this interpretive essay investigates a complex form of joking based on material collected in a Western Apache community wherein Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo-Americans.
Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, 1970. — 132 p. Cultural anthropologist Keith H. Basso (1940–2013) was noted for his long-term research of the Western Apaches, specifically those from the modern community of Cibecue, Arizona, the site of his ethnographic and linguistic research for fifty-four years. One of his earliest works, "The Cibecue Apache", has now been read by generations of...
University of New Mexico Press, 1996. — 196 p. This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with...
University of New Mexico Press, 1996. — 196 p. This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with...
University of New Mexico Press, 2011. — 352 p. Despite the significant role they have played in Texas history for nearly four hundred years, the Lipan Apaches remain among the least studied and least understood tribal groups in the West. Considered by Spaniards of the eighteenth century to be the greatest threat to the development of New Spain's northern frontier, the Lipans...
University of Nebraska Press, 2009. — 292 p.
Here is the oral history of the Apache warrior Chevato, who captured eleven-year-old Herman Lehmann from his Texas homestead in May 1870. Lehmann called him “Bill Chiwat” and referred to him as both his captor and his friend. "Chevato" provides a Native American point of view on both the Apache and Comanche capture of children and...
University of Nebraska Press, 1983. — 322 p. John C. Cremony's first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s, when he accompanied John R. Bartlett’s boundary commission surveying the United States-Mexican border. Some ten years later, as an officer of the California Volunteers, he renewed his acquaintance, particularly with the Apaches, whom he came...
University of New Mexico Press, 1994. — 288 p.
The product of more than fifteen years contact and life with the Mescalero people in southern New Mexico, "Living Life's Circle" is one of the first works devoted to the emergent new interdiscipline of ethnoastronomy, the study of how the sky and its movements form "templates" for life in particular cultures. Urged by her friend...
University of New Mexico Press, 1994. — 288 p.
The product of more than fifteen years contact and life with the Mescalero people in southern New Mexico, "Living Life's Circle" is one of the first works devoted to the emergent new interdiscipline of ethnoastronomy, the study of how the sky and its movements form "templates" for life in particular cultures. Urged by her friend...
University of Alabama Press, 2006. — 240 p.
This book reveals the conflicting meanings of power held by the federal government and the Chiricahua Apaches throughout their history of interaction. When Geronimo and Naiche, son of Cochise, surrendered in 1886, their wartime exploits came to an end, but their real battle for survival was only beginning. Throughout their captivity...
Foreword by Paul E. Minnis, Wayne J. Elisens — University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. — 240 p. Residents of the Great Plains since the early 1500s, the Apache people were well acquainted with the native flora of the region. In Plains Apache Ethnobotany , Julia A. Jordan documents more than 110 plant species valued by the Plains Apache and preserves a wealth of detail concerning...
University of New Mexico Press, 1993. — 262 p.
Here is a genuine Little Big Man story, with all the color, sweep, and tragedy of a classic American western. It is the tale of Herman Lehmann, a captive of the Apaches on the Southern Plains of Texas and New Mexico during the 1870s. Adopted by a war chief, he was trained to be a warrior and waged merciless war on Apache enemies,...
Prentice-Hall, 1974. — 448 p. They call themselves The People, but to nearly everyone else in their world they were known as The Enemy. They earned the name in every respect, since few others fought harder to preserve their territory and way of life. This ancient people, whom we know today as apache, made a prolonged, desperate, and ultimately unsuccessful effort to drive the...
Chelsea House Publishers, 2006, 123 p. — (Indians of North America series). The Apache are perhaps most noted for such fierce leaders as Cochise and Geronimo. Their name, which comes from the Yuma Indian word for fighting men, bears that out. The Apache tribe is composed of six regional groups - Western Apache, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan, and Kiowa Apache.
University Press of America, 2009. — 188 p. Although Lipan Apache culture was studied by one of the most eminent anthropologists of the twentieth century, many important questions remain. What is the meaning of the tribal name Lipan? Did Morris Opler's 1935 study of historical Lipan culture conform to practices seen by eighteenth century Spaniards? Only four in situ observations...
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2009. — viii, 231 p. : maps. Turning Adversity to Advantage is the story of the Lipan Apaches, who are now one of the forgotten Indian tribes of Texas and northern Mexico, yet they were once one of the largest and most aggressive tribes of the Rio Grande region. They were as much a part of the landscape as mesquite trees or cactus and...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 280 p. This incisive ethnographic analysis of indigenous language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization focuses on linguistic heritage issues on the Native American reservation at Fort Apache and explores the broader social, political and religious influences on changing language practices in indigenous communities. - Offers a focused ethnographic...
Introduction by Charles R. Kraut — University of Nebraska Press, 1996. — 546 p. Originally published in 1941, An Apache Life-Way remains one of the most important and innovative studies of southwestern Native Americans, drawing upon a rich and invaluable body of data gathered by the ethnographer Morris Edward Opler during the 1930s. Blending the analysis of individual Apache lives...
University Press of Colorado, 2002. — 265 p. The Plains Apaches' mystical kinship with the land and the natural environment that the tribes perceived and nurtured is embodied in their four sacred medicine bundles - the no*bikagseli* (prayer on top of the earth). In "Prayer on Top of the Earth", we are introduced to the fascinating world of Apache bird, animal, and human...
University of Arizona Press, 1982. — 204 p. Of all Indian bisector, that of the Apaches has long been most admired for its craftsmanship and beauty. This is a book that will prove indispensable to anyone, professional or amateur, with an interest in Indian crafts. Clara Lee Tanner (1905-1997) has been a member of the Anthropology Department at the University of Arizona since...
Eva Tulene Watt with assistance from Keith H. Basso. — Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2004. — xxvi, 340 p. : ill. When the Apache wars ended in the late nineteenth century, a harsh and harrowing time began for the Western Apache people. Living under the authority of nervous Indian agents, pitiless government-school officials, and menacing mounted police, they knew...
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