Apache Odyssey: A Journey Between Two Worlds

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ISBN: 9780803286160
Dewey: B
LCC Number: E99.A6
Author: Morris Edward Opler
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Pages: 301
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Description

In 1933| anthropologist Morris Opler met a Mescalero Apache he called Chris and worked with him to record his life story| from the bloody Apache Wars into the reservation years of the mid-20th century. Chris’s recollections are enriched at strategic moments with crucial background information on Apache history and culture| supplied by Opler. Chris was born around 1880| the son of a Chiricahua man and a Mescalero woman. At the age of six| he and his family and other Chiricahua Apaches became prisoners of war and were relocated by the U.S. government to Florida and Alabama. Eventually settling on the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico| Chris grew up expecting to become a shaman like his parents. Although Chris apprenticed as a shaman| his confidence in his healing ability waned after he was forced at the age of 17 to attend federal government schools. Nonetheless| his interest in Mescalero religion| healing| and other traditional customs and beliefs remained| and that intimate knowledge of his people’s world underscores and deepens the story of his own life.

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Weight 0.97 lbs
Dimensions 9.03 × 6.04 × 0.7 in
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