Apache odyssey;
Subtitle: A journey between two worlds, (Case studies in cultural anthropology)
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1969
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780030789052
Table of contents: title: Traditional Mescalero practices -- Mescalero culture under siege -- Child of the vanquished. War and raid in the west -- My father’s supernatural power -- My father marries and has an accident -- Exile -- First impressions of Mescalero -- The power of a bird -- Chief Natsili -- First teachers -- Early training -- A victory dance -- Witchcraft and death -- A successful “charming” ceremony -- Early lessons in the importance of power -- Earning the right to smoke -- First hunting experiences -- Power from squirrel -- Following two trails. Civilization -- Rivalry and defiance -- Yearnings -- Sacrifice -- Epidemic -- Ceremonial protection -- Witchcraft and dream -- At the girl’s adolescence rite -- Treating illness and injury -- Finding the happy mean -- Persecution -- Strong tonic -- Sport -- The web of sorcery -- Of bears and horses -- Animal trainer -- Help from the towhee -- Assisting father -- I throw my elder -- Greed for power -- Hazards of the water -- Ceremony and departure -- Albuquerque school -- Unsettled years. Return to fear -- Swinging-Lance -- The food of the raven -- A ceremony overheard -- Feud -- Diego’s power -- Mescalero fears -- Love magic -- An aunt, famous as a healer -- Illness from civet -- Finding the hidden, lost, strayed, and stolen -- Cold’s friend -- The varied uses of raccoon -- Of insects and field glasses -- Conflict and doubt -- The white man’s nemesis -- Power learned from the Ute used in curing -- The hunt -- Temptation -- Old Jicarilla -- Faith and the wager -- Family and strife -- Father’s ceremonial power -- Law and order -- A song of foreboding -- Led by a bird -- Malice -- Trapper and naturalist -- Accident -- The ways of the white man -- Charmed -- Search unended. Marriage, the white man’s way -- Experiences with peyote -- Power and peyote -- Swinging-Lance loses supernatural power -- Anthony’s First Moccasins Ceremony -- Wrongs that were never made right -- Finding-out ceremonies -- A serious illness -- Epidemic -- A girl bewitched -- General practitioner -- A visit across the border -- Doctor’s assistant -- Curing “woman’s disease” -- Of medical plants -- Choosing among beliefs -- Sobering thoughts about the cardinal -- Testing a white man -- The hunt as a test of character -- Strength -- Mad dog and madstone -- A cure with power from White Painted Woman -- Power rebuffed -- The market for ceremonial goods -- A use for everything -- An imported ceremony -- Meningitis strikes the reservation -- Family trails and tragedy -- Signs and portents -- When the leaves came -- Widower -- Assisting Kenneth Swinging-Lance -- Power and policy -- The power that would not be bossed -- The turn of the wheel.