Research Catalog

Title

Apaches : a history and culture portrait / James L. Haley.

Author

Haley, James L.

Publication

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

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Details

Description

xxvi, 453 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

Apaches: A History and Culture Portrait, James L. Haley's dramatic saga of the Apaches' doomed guerrilla war against the whites, was a radical departure from the method followed by previous histories of white-native conflict. Arguing that "you cannot understand the history unless you understand the culture," Haley first discusses the "life-way" of the Apaches - their mythology and folklore (including the famous Coyote series), religious customs, everyday life, and social mores. Haley then explores the tumultuous decades of trade and treaty and of betrayal and bloodshed that preceded the Apaches' final military defeat in 1886. He emphasizes figures who played a decisive role in the conflict; Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, and Geronimo on the one hand, and Royal Whitman, George Crook, and John Clum on the other. With a new preface that places the book in the context of contemporary scholarship, Apaches is a well-rounded one-volume overview of Apache history and culture.

Subjects

• History
• Apache Indians > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1981. With new pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Earth Is New -- Tin-ne'ah: The People -- The Slaying of the Monsters -- Spanish Antecedents -- The People Are Set Out -- The Spanish Become Mexicans -- Coyote's Journey -- They Have Power -- Power Is in It -- Herbalism -- In This Way We Live -- We Hunt Them -- Food All Around -- A Good Woman Is Busy -- He Makes Weapons -- They Scout Around -- Babies -- Rites of Passage -- Courtship and Marriage -- The Social Order They Have a Big Time -- Crime and Punishment -- Death, Burial, and Eternity -- Pindah-Lickoyee -- Mangas and the Boundary Commission -- Mangas Triumphant -- General Garland's War -- Dr. Steck -- Apache Pass -- The Civil War's Southwestern Sideshow -- Bosque Redondo -- Like Lizards We Run -- Always Live in a Rough Place -- The Peacemakers -- The Tonto War -- The Mysterious Dr. Wilbur -- Clum and the Concentration Policy -- Victorio -- Cibicue -- The San Carlos Raid -- Na-tio-tish -- The Gray Fox -- The Mexican Invasion, 1883 -- Be Patient, and Fear Not -- Canyon of the Tricksters -- Canyon of the Skeletons.

ISBN

0806129786 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97003283^

OCLC

36649213

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library