Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians
Title | Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Morris Edward Opler |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | 591 |
Release | 2018-12-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1789128595 |
Lipan Apache are Southern Athabaskan (Apachean) Native Americans whose traditional territory included present-day Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas, prior to the 17th century. Present-day Lipan live mostly throughout the U.S. Southwest, in Texas, New Mexico, and the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, as well as with the Mescalero tribe on the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico; some currently live in urban and rural areas throughout North America (Mexico, United States, and Canada). “The myths and tales of this volume are of particular significance, perhaps, because they have reference to a tribe about which there is almost no published ethnographic material. The Lipan Apache were scattered and all but annihilated on the eve of the Southwestern reservation period. The survivors found refuge with other groups, and, except for a brief notice by Gatshet, they have been overlooked or neglected while investigations of numerically larger peoples have proceeded. “It is gratifying, therefore, to be able to present a fairly full collection of Lipan folklore, and to be in a position to report that this collection does much to illuminate the relations of Southern Athabaskan-speaking tribes and the movements of aboriginal populations in the American Southwest. “The myths and tales of this volume were recorded during the summer of 1935.”—Claremont Colleges
Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians
Title | Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Morris Edward Opler |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 197? |
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Myths and legends of the Lipan Apache Indians
Title | Myths and legends of the Lipan Apache Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Morris Edward Opler |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | Indian mythology |
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Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians
Title | Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Morris Edward Opler |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | 132 |
Release | 2017-06-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 178720569X |
“We are dealing here with a living literature,” wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians. First published in 1942, this is another classic study by the author of Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians. Opler conducted field work among the Chiricahuas in the American Southwest, as he had earlier among the Jicarillas. The result is a definitive collection of their myths. They range from an account of the world destroyed by water to descriptions of puberty rites and wonderful contests. The exploits of culture heroes involve the slaying of monsters and the assistance of Coyote. A large part of the book is devoted to the irrepressible Coyote, whose antics make cautionary tales for the young, tales that also allow harmless expression of the taboo. Other striking stories present supernatural beings and “foolish people.”
Texas Indian Myths & Legends
Title | Texas Indian Myths & Legends PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Arcger |
Publisher | Taylor Trade Publications |
Total Pages | 246 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1556227256 |
Five native nations of Texas come alive in this vividly written book.
Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians
Title | Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Morris Opler |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 445 |
Release | 2012-04-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 048614576X |
Classic study of myths relating to creation, agriculture and rain, hunting rituals, coyote cycle, monstrous enemy stories, many more.
Apaches
Title | Apaches PDF eBook |
Author | James L. Haley |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | 548 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780806129785 |
Apaches: A History and Culture Portrait, James L. Haley's dramatic saga of the Apaches' doomed guerrilla war against the whites, was a radical departure from the method followed by previous histories of white-native conflict. Arguing that "you cannot understand the history unless you understand the culture, " Haley first discusses the "life-way" of the Apaches - their mythology and folklore (including the famous Coyote series), religious customs, everyday life, and social mores. Haley then explores the tumultuous decades of trade and treaty and of betrayal and bloodshed that preceded the Apaches' final military defeat in 1886. He emphasizes figures who played a decisive role in the conflict; Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, and Geronimo on the one hand, and Royal Whitman, George Crook, and John Clum on the other. With a new preface that places the book in the context of contemporary scholarship, Apaches is a well-rounded one-volume overview of Apache history and culture.