This book is the unforgettable story of a Comanche woman who has become one of the most influential, inspired, and determined Native Americans in politics. LaDonna Harris was born on a Comanche allotment in southern Oklahoma in the 1930s. From her earliest years, she was immersed in a world of resistance, reform, and political action. As the wife ...
Chiricahua women individually and collectively describe their history, its effects on them today, and their lives and their hopes for the future. Shedding light on some of the mysteries surrounding traditional and contemporary Chiricahua Apache culture, each of the women interviewed emphasize the importance of storytelling and ritual in preserving ...
This is a study of the rich religious legacy of the Chiricahua Apaches and its inevitable collision with Christianity. Beginning with Apache creation stories, H. Henrietta Stockel describes Chiricahua beliefs and ceremonies before going on to recount the conditions of the Spanish colonial frontier at the moment of conquest. Subsequent chapters ...
More than simply a history of the bow and arrow, The Lightning Stick brings together a broad range of significant people and events, spiritual usages, medicinal treatments, and an unusual array of subject matter related to the weapon itself. Henrietta Stockel conveys a host of information derived from primary documents and provides readers with a ...
Many readers may be familiar with the Apache wars; this book relates the untold story of the Apaches' postwar fate. It tells of the Chiricahua Apaches' 27 years of imprisonment as recorded in American dispatches, reports, and news items. Unabashedly speaking on behalf of the Apaches, Stockel has framed these documents within a readable narrative ...
For more than a decade, H. Henrietta Stockel has moved with remarkable freedom and intimacy among the Chiricahuas, especially in the women's friendship circles. With their permission and even blessing, she has observed and recorded aspects of their traditional culture that otherwise might be lost to history. CHIRICAHUA APACHE WOMEN AND CHILDREN, ...
Arriving on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in 1948, Robert Ove, a naive young school teacher, began his first teaching job at Whitetail, unaware of the culture and history of his Chiricahua students, descendants of the great chief Geronimo. The Chiricahuas gradually accepted this well-intentioned outsider into their community and shared parts of ...
This is the first in a new book series focused on creating awareness for human rights. Documentary photographer Wesley Billingslea uses his skills to focus on raising awareness about a number of cultures that have either been forgotten or misunderstood. These 'lost cultures' have much in common - from the economic survival of their people, whose ...
In her latest work, H. Henrietta Stockel examines the collision of the ethnocentric Spanish missionaries and the Chiricahua Apaches, including the resulting identity theft through Christian baptism, and the even more destructive creation of a local slave trade. The new information provided in this study offers a sample of the total unknown number ...
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