Life Among the Texas Indians: The WPA Narratives

di David La Vere (Autore)

Texas A & M University Press, 2006

Historian David La Vere has gathered a wealth of vivid detail about life among the former Texas Indian peoples, including the Kiowas, Comanches, Wichitas, Caddos, Tonkawas, and Lipan Apaches. Culled from 112 volumes of the Indian-Pioneer Histories in the Indian Archives at the Oklahoma Historical Society, these oral histories also include interviews with non-Indian neighbors. Together, their recollections provide an exceptional picture of the details of daily life-war and raiding, hunting and planting, foodways, dress, parties and spiritual practices, education, health, and housing. La Vere sets the stage for this ethnographic detail with a lively, readable history of the succession of peoples who lived in Texas from the Paleo-Indians until the present. It is a clear overview of the basic social structures of the tribes, the relations among tribes and, later, of the Indians with the Europeans who came to the region.

• Autore: David La Vere
• Editore: Texas A & M University Press
• Collana: Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest
• Anno: 2006
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 288 p.
• EAN: 9781585445288

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