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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

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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Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler,David H. French

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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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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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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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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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Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler,David H. French

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An Apache Life-Way

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

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Apache Odyssey

A Journey Between Two Worlds

By: Chris,Morris Edward Opler

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Apachean Culture History and Ethnology

By: Keith H. Basso,Morris E. Opler

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Apachean Culture History and Ethnology

By: Keith H. Basso,Morris E. Opler

This volume grew out of a symposium held at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in November 1969 at New Orleans, Louisiana. The "Apachean Symposium" was designed to provide an opportunity for scholars engaged in research on southern Athapaskan cultures to report upon their findings, and wherever possible, to link them to known fact and existing theory. The diverse work presented here will add significantly to the knowledge about Apachean cultures, and each of contributions also pertains directly to wider spheres of anthropological concern.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816543690

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The Long War Against God

By: Henry Morris

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The Long War Against God

By: Henry Morris

Darwin Challenged God's Word With Evolution...But Was He The Only One? Discover the old, ongoing war against biblical truth Dissect the origins of and arguments for atheistic thought Determine what you can do to defend your faith The denial of God is the root of every human problem, taking many forms over time — one of which is evolution. And this concept goes much farther back in time than we think. In The Long War Against God, the late Dr. Henry Morris, a renowned creationist, delves into the history of modern atheistic worldviews. Drawing from the writings of the Greeks, Babylonians, and other ancient philosophers, Morris demonstrates the long history and age of the plan to undermine God’s Word. Whether it’s evolutionism, humanism, pantheism, or atheism, Morris illuminates the past and present of these belief systems that seek to eliminate God. The Long War Against God will give you the tools you need to strengthen your own — and others’ — faith in the battle for God’s truth.

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Prehistoric Sandals from Northeastern Arizona

The Earl H. Morris and Ann Axtell Morris Research

By: Kelley Ann Hays-Gilpin,Ann Cordy Deegan,Elizabeth Ann Morris

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Prehistoric Sandals from Northeastern Arizona

The Earl H. Morris and Ann Axtell Morris Research

By: Kelley Ann Hays-Gilpin,Ann Cordy Deegan,Elizabeth Ann Morris

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, archaeologists Earl and Ann Axtell Morris discovered an abundance of sandals from the Basketmaker II and III through Pueblo III periods while excavating rockshelters in northeastern Arizona. These densely twined sandals made of yucca yarn were intricately crafted and elaborately decorated, and Earl Morris spent the next 25 years overseeing their analysis, description, and illustration. This is the first full published report on this unusual find, which remains one of the largest collections of sandals in Southwestern archaeology. This monograph offers an integrated archaeological and technical study of the footwear, providing for the first time a full-scale analysis of the complicated weave structures they represent. Following an account by anthropologist Elizabeth Ann Morris of her parents' research, textile authority Ann Cordy Deegan gives an overview of prehistoric Puebloan sandal types and of twined sandal construction techniques, revealing the subtleties distinguishing Basketmaker sandals of different time periods. Anthropologist Kelley Ann Hays-Gilpin then discusses the decoration of twined sandals and speculates on the purpose of such embellishment.

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Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler

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Book's by Morris Edward Opler

An Apache Life-Way

An Apache Life-Way

Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

Apache Odyssey

Apache Odyssey

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

Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

An Apache Life-Way

An Apache Life-Way

Apache Odyssey

Apache Odyssey

Apachean Culture History and Ethnology

Apachean Culture History and Ethnology

The Long War Against God

The Long War Against God

Prehistoric Sandals from Northeastern Arizona

Prehistoric Sandals from Northeastern Arizona

Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians

Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians

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