Life Among the Texas Indians : The WPA Narratives Paperback / softback
by David La Vere
Part of the Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 21 b&w photos, index
- Publisher:Texas A & M University Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2006
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- ISBN:9781585445288
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 21 b&w photos, index
- Publisher:Texas A & M University Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9781585445288
