Chiricahua Apache enduring power
Subtitle: Naiche's puberty ceremony paintings
By: Trudy Griffin-Pierce ; with a foreword by J. Jefferson Reid and Stephanie M. Whittlesey
Series: Contemporary American Indian studies
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Naiche, -- ca. 1857-1921; Chiricahua Indians -- Biography; Chiricahua Indians -- Social life and customs; Chiricahua Indians -- Government relations; Indian art -- Southwest, New; Puberty rites -- Southwest, New
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-182) and index
Table of contents: title: Ethnographic and historic background of the Chiricahua Apaches; title: Military conquest as a physical, psychological, and symbolic event; title: Exile and the construction of cultural identity; title: Pratt and the Carlisle Boarding School; title: The art of American Indian prisoners of war; title: The Chiricahua Apache girl's puberty ceremony and Naiche's hide paintings