Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians

Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians
Author: Edward Morris Opler
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 048614576X

Classic study of myths relating to creation, agriculture and rain, hunting rituals, coyote cycle, monstrous enemy stories, many more.

The Jicarilla Apache of Dulce

The Jicarilla Apache of Dulce
Author: Veronica E. Velarde Tiller
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 0738595292

Now the headquarters of the Jicarilla Apache, Dulce (meaning "sweet" in Spanish) was named by the impoverished and relocated Indians who associated the place with the sugar and candy that came with government-supplied rations. Since the establishment of the reservation in 1887, Dulce has become the hub of everything associated with the Jicarillas. From the early timber operations, farming, and livestock raising, the Jicarilla Apache have become an economic powerhouse of northern New Mexico. Dulce is now a community living in two worlds, fully immersed in the American mainstream economy with a world-class hunting lodge, significant oil and gas operations, and widely diversified investments while fiercely maintaining the centuries-old language, culture, religion, and ceremonies of Jicarilla Apache Indians.

The Jicarilla Apache Tribe

The Jicarilla Apache Tribe
Author: Veronica E. Velarde Tiller
Publisher: Bowarrow Publishing Company
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN:

This evenhanded history of the Jicarilla Apache tribe of New Mexico highlights their long history of cultural adaptation and change--both to new environments and cultural traits. Concentrating on the modern era, 1846-1970, Veronica Tiller, herself a Jicarilla Apache, tells of the tribe's economic adaptations and relations with the United States government. Originally published in 1983, this revised edition updates the account of the Jicarilla experience, documenting the significant economic, political, and cultural changes that have occurred as the tribe has exercised ever greater autonomy in recent years.

The Jicarilla Apache

The Jicarilla Apache
Author: Veronica E. Velarde Tiller
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2006
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780826337764

This well-rounded portrait of the Jicarilla people and lands reveals a culture and lifestyle seldom studied in the past.

Reconfiguring the Reservation

Reconfiguring the Reservation
Author: Emily Greenwald
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826324085

Once Indians had private property, reformers reasoned, they would practice agriculture and eventually adopt "American" economic and natural rules."--BOOK JACKET.

Culture and Customs of the Apache Indians

Culture and Customs of the Apache Indians
Author: Veronica E. Verlade Tiller
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313364524

An introduction to the culture, customs, beliefs, and practices of the Apache Indians that explores how the tribe struggles to keep their history alive in modern times.

Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians
Author: Morris Edward Opler
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2017-06-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 178720569X

“We are dealing here with a living literature,” wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians. First published in 1942, this is another classic study by the author of Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians. Opler conducted field work among the Chiricahuas in the American Southwest, as he had earlier among the Jicarillas. The result is a definitive collection of their myths. They range from an account of the world destroyed by water to descriptions of puberty rites and wonderful contests. The exploits of culture heroes involve the slaying of monsters and the assistance of Coyote. A large part of the book is devoted to the irrepressible Coyote, whose antics make cautionary tales for the young, tales that also allow harmless expression of the taboo. Other striking stories present supernatural beings and “foolish people.”

Tiller's Guide to Indian Country

Tiller's Guide to Indian Country
Author: Veronica E. Velarde Tiller
Publisher: Bowarrow Publishing Company
Total Pages: 1154
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This comprehensive guide to 562 American Indian tribes includes tribal history and culture and current information on location, tribal government, services and facilities, economic activity, and tribal contact information.

From Fort Marion to Fort Sill

From Fort Marion to Fort Sill
Author: Alicia Delgadillo
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803243790

From 1886 to 1913, hundreds of Chiricahua Apache men, women, and children lived and died as prisoners of war in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. Their names, faces, and lives have long been forgotten by history, and for nearly one hundred years these individuals have been nothing more than statistics in the history of the United States’ tumultuous war against the Chiricahua Apache. Based on extensive archival research, From Fort Marion to Fort Sill offers long-overdue documentation of the lives and fate of many of these people. This outstanding reference work provides individual biographies for hundreds of the Chiricahua Apache prisoners of war, including those originally classified as POWs in 1886, infants who lived only a few days, children removed from families and sent to Indian boarding schools, and second-generation POWs who lived well into the twenty-first century. Their biographies are often poignant and revealing, and more than 60 previously unpublished photographs give a further glimpse of their humanity. This masterful documentary work, based on the unpublished research notes of former Fort Sill historian Gillett Griswold, at last brings to light the lives and experiences of hundreds of Chiricahua Apaches whose story has gone untold for too long.