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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451523003321

Autore

Griffin-Pierce Trudy <1949-2009.>

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8173-8134-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Contemporary American Indian studies

Disciplina

979.004/9725600922

B

Soggetti

Chiricahua Indians

Chiricahua Indians - Social life and customs

Chiricahua Indians - Government relations

Indian art - Southwest, New

Puberty rites - Southwest, New

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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