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Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler,David H. French

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Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler,David H. French

“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.”

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178720569X

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Apache Odyssey

A Journey Between Two Worlds

By: Chris,Morris Edward Opler

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Apache Odyssey

A Journey Between Two Worlds

By: Chris,Morris Edward Opler

In 1933, famed anthropologist Morris Opler met a Mescalero Apache he called Chris and worked with him to record the man's life story, from the bloody Apache Wars into the reservation years of the mid-twentieth century. Chris's vivid recollections are enriched at strategic moments with crucial background information on Apache history and culture, supplied by Opler. Chris was born around 1880, the son of a Chiricahua man and a Mescalero woman. At the age of six, he and his family and other Chiricahua Apaches became prisoners of war and were relocated by the U.S. government to Florida and Alabama. Eventually settling on the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico, Chris grew up expecting to become a shaman like his parents. Although Chris apprenticed as a shaman, his confidence in his healing ability waned after he was forced at the age of seventeen to attend federal government schools. Nonetheless, his interest in Mescalero religion, healing, and other traditional customs and beliefs remained, and that intimate knowledge of his people's world underscores and deepens the story of his own life.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803286163

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9780803286160

An Apache Life-Way

The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler

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An Apache Life-Way

The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler

A majority of ethnographer Morris Edward Opler’s research was done on Native American groups of the American Southwest. He studied specifically the Chiricahua Indians, who were the subjects of one of his most famous books, An Apache Life-Way: The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians. Opler studied many Native American groups, but the Apache were a main focus of his. An Apache Life-Way traces the life of an Apache year by year. Rather than a history, the book explains the day-to-day Apache experience, detailing the chronological order of one’s life. The lifestyle described in the book is from a time before the Americans started the long era of hostile interactions with the Apache. The people designated as “Apache” in this book are those who spoke the Apache language in the area that is now New Mexico, Arizona, Sonora, and Chihuahua. There were many smaller sub-groups that populated these areas, three of them different groups of the Chiricahua Apache. An Apache Life-Way is divided into several main parts: Childhood; Maturation; Social Relations of Adults; Folk Beliefs, Medical Practice, and Shamanism; Maintenance of the Household; Marital and Sexual Life; The Round of Life; Political Organization and Status; and Death, Mourning, and the Underworld. Each section is divided into more specific subcategories that explore each phase of life and the rituals associated with it. Originally published in 1941, An Apache Life-Way remains one of the most important and innovative studies of south-western Native Americans. “First-class...in the best ethnographic tradition. It fills a great gap in our anthropological knowledge and...deserves to be one of the most used of American tribal records.”—Ruth Benedict, author of Patterns of Culture

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1789126592

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9781789126594

Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler

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Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler

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

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1789128595

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Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians

By: Edward Morris Opler

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Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians

By: Edward Morris Opler

Classic study of myths relating to creation, agriculture and rain, hunting rituals, coyote cycle, monstrous enemy stories, many more.

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Courier Corporation

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048614576X

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Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale

"The Man Without a Country" and Philip Nolan's Friends

By: Edward Everett Hale,Hsuan L. Hsu,Susan Kalter

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Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale

"The Man Without a Country" and Philip Nolan's Friends

By: Edward Everett Hale,Hsuan L. Hsu,Susan Kalter

Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale brings together one of the most popular stories of the nineteenth-century, "The Man Without a Country," with its novel-length sequel, Philip Nolan's Friends. As Hsuan Hsu and Susan Kalter show in this critical edition, these engaging works of fiction helped orient nineteenth-century Americans' opinions about citizenship, statelessness, imperialism, and conflicts with Mexico and Native American nations in the U.S. Southwest.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0739136801

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9780739136805

The American Indians

By: Edward Holland Spicer

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The American Indians

By: Edward Holland Spicer

The monumental Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. The Dimensions of Ethnicity series is designed to make this landmark scholarship available to everyone in a series of handy paperbound student editions. Selections in this series will include outstanding articles that illuminate the social dynamics of a pluralistic nation or masterfully summarize the experience of key groups. Written by the best-qualified scholars in each field, Dimensions of Ethnicity titles reflect the complex interplay between assimilation and pluralism that is a central theme of the American experience. Here is a notably compact account of the diversity and complex cultures of Native Americans, with a special section on the history of federal policy.

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0674024761

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Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler,David H. French

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Apache Odyssey

A Journey Between Two Worlds

By: Chris,Morris Edward Opler

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A Journey Between Two Worlds

By: Chris,Morris Edward Opler

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Evaluative Research

Principles and Practice in Public Service and Social Action Progr

By: Edward Suchman

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Evaluative Research

Principles and Practice in Public Service and Social Action Progr

By: Edward Suchman

Describes the techniques used to determine the extent to which social goals are being achieved, to locate the barriers to these goals, and to discover the unanticipated results of social actions. The book is divided into three main sections: the conceptual, methodological, and administrative aspects of evaluation.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610445171

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Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler

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An Apache Life-way

The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler

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An Apache Life-way

The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler

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 with the analysis of their culture, this landmark study tells of the ceremonies, religious beliefs, social life, and economy of the Chiricahua Apache. Opler traces, in fascinating detail, how a person “becomes an Apache,” beginning with conception, moving through puberty rites, marriage, and the various religious, domestic, and military duties and experiences of adulthood, and concluding with the rites and beliefs surrounding death.

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0803286104

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A Field Guide to Mexican Birds

Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador

By: Roger Tory Peterson,Edward L. Chalif

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A Field Guide to Mexican Birds

Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador

By: Roger Tory Peterson,Edward L. Chalif

With more than 700 color paintings arranged by families for quick comparison of similar species, and with detailed information on range, habitat, size, and voice, this field guide describes and illustrates 1,038 species of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and El Salvador.

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Book's by Edward Morris Opler

Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

Apache Odyssey

Apache Odyssey

An Apache Life-Way

An Apache Life-Way

Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians

Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians

Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians

Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians

Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale

Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale

The American Indians

The American Indians

Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

Apache Odyssey

Apache Odyssey

Evaluative Research

Evaluative Research

Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians

Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians

An Apache Life-way

An Apache Life-way

A Field Guide to Mexican Birds

A Field Guide to Mexican Birds

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