An Apache Life-Way
The Economic, Social and Religious
Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians
By Morris Edward Opler
500 pages, illustrated, indexed, searchable
- Bonus Book -
The Medicine-Men of the Apache
By John G. Bourke, 1892
150 pages, illustrated, indexed, searchable
- Bonus Book -
Myths and Tales
From the White Mountain Apache
By Pliny Earl Goddard, 1919
139 pages, searchable
- Bonus Book -
The Marvelous Country
Or
Three Years In Arizona and New Mexico
COMPRISING
A DESCRIPTION OF THIS WONDERFUL COUNTRY, ITS IM-.
MENSE MINERAL WEALTH, ITS MAGNIFICENT MOUNTAIN
SCENERY, THE RUINS OF ANCIENT TOWNS AND
CITIES FOUND THEREIN, WITH A COMPLETE
HISTORY OF THE APACHE TRIBE, AND
A DESCRIPTION OF THE
AUTHOR'S GUIDE,
COCHISE, THE GREAT APACHE WAR CHIEF.
THE WHOLE INTERSPERSED WITH
STRANGE EVENTS AND ADVENTURES.
By Samuel Woodward Cozzins, 1874
532 pages, illustrated, searchable
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The modern term Apache excludes the related Navajo people. Since the Navajo and the other Apache groups are clearly related through culture and language, they are all considered Apachean. Apachean peoples formerly ranged over eastern Arizona, northwestern Mexico, New Mexico, Texas and the southern Great Plains.
The Apachean groups had little political unity; the major groups spoke seven different languages and developed distinct and competitive cultures. The current division
of Apachean groups includes the Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan, and Plains Apache (formerly Kiowa-Apache). Apache groups live in
Oklahoma and Texas and on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico.
Other Apache groups are not as well-known by modern anthropologists and historians.
TABLE OF CONTENTS – An Apache Life-Way
List of Illustrations xiii
Location and Historical Sketch i
Childhood 5
Beginnings 7
Cradle Days 10
First Steps 15
Spring Hair-cutting Ceremony 17
Surroundings 18
Early Training and Discipline 25
The Dangers of Childhood 36
Play 45
The Child and His Kin 54
Childhood's End 65
Maturation 77
The Molding of Sex Attitudes 77
The Girl's Puberty Rite 82
The Novitiate for Raid and War 134
Social Relations of Adults 140
Relations between Men and Women 140
Marriage Arrangements, Marriage, and Residence 154
The Man and His Wife's Relatives 163
The Married Man and His Blood Kin 181
The Woman and Her Husband's Relatives 1 84
Folk Beliefs, Medical Practice, and Shamanism 186
Folk Beliefs, Muscular Tremors, and Dreams 1 86
Cosmology and Supernaturals 194
The Shaman and Power , 200
Medical Practices 216
Origins of Disease 224
Sorcery and Incest 242
The Generalized Curing Rite 257
Ceremonialism in Action; Obtaining and Using Power 267
Skepticism 313
Maintenance of the Household 316
Hunting 316
The Economic Interest in Raid and War 332
War for Vengeance 336
The Gathering and Utilization of Wild Food Plants 354
The Cooking and Preservation of Meat Products 365
The Preparation of Beverages 368
The Storage of Food and Surplus Possessions 37 1
Agriculture . 372
Home Industries of Women 375
Home Industries of Men 386
Ownership of Goods, Trade, and Gift-giving 397
Marital and Sexual Life 401
Personality Adjustment between Husband and Wife 401
Sexual Adjustment 403
Birth Control, Barrenness, and Fertility Rites 405
Jealousy and Extra-marital Relations 406
Divorce 412
Sexual Aberrance and Perversion 415
Polygyny and Sororal Polygyny 416
The Sororate and Levirate 420
The Round of Life 427
Camp Life and Etiquette 427
Humor 434
Parties, Dances, and Story-telling 436
Smoking 441
Sports and Games of Adults 443
Invective 456
Antisocial Conduct 458
Political Organization and Status ! 462
Death, Mourning, and the Underworld 472
Appendix: Chiricahua Kinship System and Terms 479
Selected Bibliography 481
Index 485