Chiricahua Apache enduring power : Naiche's puberty ceremony paintings / Trudy Griffin-Pierce ; with a foreword by J. Jefferson Reid and Stephanie M. Whittlesey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffin-Pierce, Trudy, 1949-2009.

Series:

Contemporary American Indian studies.

Contemporary American Indian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chiricahua Indians--Biography.

Chiricahua Indians.

Chiricahua Indians--Social life and customs.

Chiricahua Indians--Government relations.

Indian art--Southwest, New.

Indian art.

Puberty rites--Southwest, New.

Puberty rites.

Naiche, approximately 1857-1921.

Naiche.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A gripping story of the cultural resilience of the descendants of Geronimo and Cochise. This book reveals the conflicting meanings of power held by the federal government and the Chiricahua Apaches throughout their history of interaction. When Geronimo and Naiche, son of Cochise, surrendered in 1886, their wartime exploits came to an end, but their real battle for survival was only beginning. Throughout their captivity in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma, Naiche kept alive Chiricahua spiritual power by embodying it in his beautiful hide paint

Contents:

Ethnographic and historic background of the Chiricahua Apaches

Military conquest as a physical, psychological, and symbolic event

Exile and the construction of cultural identity

Pratt and the Carlisle Boarding School

The art of American Indian prisoners of war

The Chiricahua Apache girl's puberty ceremony and Naiche's hide paintings.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-182) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8134-1

OCLC:

209116616