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

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Contemporary American Indian studies.
Main Author: Griffin-Pierce, Trudy, 1949-2009
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2006], ©2006.
Series:Contemporary American Indian studies.
Subjects:
Naiche, > approximately 1857-1921.
Chiricahua Apache people > Biography.
Chiricahua Apache people > Social life and customs.
Chiricahua Apache people > Government relations.
Indigenous art > Southwest, New.
Puberty rites > Southwest, New.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xviii, 185 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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.