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This evenhanded history of the Jicarilla Apache tribe ofNew Mexico highlights their long history of cultural adaptation andchange-both to new environments and cultural traits. Concentrating onthe modern era, 1846-1970, Veronica Tiller, herself a JicarillaApache, tells of the tribes economic adaptations and relationswith the United States government.

Originally published in 1983, this revised edition updates the accountof the Jicarilla experience, documenting the significant economic,political, and cultural changes that have occurred as the tribe hasexercised ever greater autonomy in recent years. ... Read more

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Best History Yet of the Jicarilla Apache
This is the best history yet of the Jicarilla Apache, an interesting people who once were the scourge of the Santa Fe Trail. This was quite an accomplishment considering the tribe numbered less than 800 members.The book is easy to read and covers their history from earliest known times up to the present.The tribe's power was broken in the 1850s by Kit Carson.The next 30 years were occupied in finding the tribe a reservation as they wandered and were sent from place to place in search of some place they'd be allowed to stay.Shuffled off to wasteland the tribe has time and again turned up wealth first in timbers, then cattle, then oil, gas and uranium leases and almost as regularly up to the 1960s had the wealth stolen from them by unscroupulous Indian agents and government incompetence.The author is not always well documented presenting new evidence without a source and is clearly biased in favor of Ollero Jicarillas. ... Read more

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Reference. This exhaustive bilingual dictionary is the culmination of years of collaboration between educators, linguistic scholars, and community members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe. Compiled with the goal of creating a living, working dictionary that will be of cultural, educational, and practical value, it also includes dialectical cariants from other communities, including the San Carlos tribe. Also included: a pronunciation guide, a clarification of current writing conventions, as well as a practical morphosyntactic description of key features of the language. ... Read more

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Western Apache-English Dictionary
My son thanks me for sending him this book. This is what he says:

"It is really well written and has many world/phrases that are helpful.It covers the Western Apache's Dialect from the Arizona and White Mountan Areas.

It has some differences from other bands of Apaches.LIke 'nnee' --people/apache and 'indoa' white people/whiteman in the Chirichawa dialect."

He goes on to say that the book does touch on verbs and alphabet but explains that a lot of words are full sentences.That he spent so much time to write details and share what he was learning through this dictionary shows that the gift was really appreciated.

Very well done product!

Pat Krenik

ok, but simple
This dictionary has errors (in spelling of words and in sketch of sounds & grammar). It is essentially a revised version of a dictionary published in the early 1970s. Of course, some words have been added.

It is useful to compare this dictionary to the dictionaries published on Navajo. As is easily seen, this dictionary lacks much explanational content. This dictionary may be more useful for native speakers, but for non-speakers it will be hard to look up Apache verbs (and there are thousands of words not listed in the dictionary). The Navajo Analytic Lexicon has a better layout for language learners since it orders verbs by verb stem.

However, there is, unfortunately, no other dictionary in print. So, this dictionary will have to do for now.

There is also good news to report: An advanced pedagogical grammar Western Apache has just been published (in 2006). This is Willem de Reuse & Phillip Goode's "A Practical Grammar of the San Carlos Apache Language" published by LINCOM. (ISBN: 3895868612). What is useful is the Western Apache-English & English-Western Apache glossary, which lists nouns by noun stem, and the appendix of verb paradigms. Having this grammar may help language learners in getting more out of the Bray dictionary. (By the way, San Carlos Apache is the varietyof Western Apache spoken in San Carlos and in other areas. White Moutain Apache is the variety of Western Apache spoken on the White Mountain Reservation and in other places).

Western Apache Dictionary
This dictionary is relatively small (only 2000 entries). However, the entries are very well-done with different verb forms, dialect variations, and sample phrases. There is also a good grammatical overview and pronunciation guide. Please note that this is the Western Apache language, which is significantly different from the Chiricahua Apache language--the two languages are related, but no more so than French and Spanish are, so don't buy this dictionary hoping to read or learn Chiricahua Apache!

only a try
It is true that there are too many words missing, I suppose this is just a vocabulary to an unknown corpus of texts; it will help the Apache to learn how to spell, but a non-Apache won't learn much from it.

Living languages from the past�
This book was created as a way to help save the Apache language."The primary audience for this book is the Apaches who are learning to read and write their own language."(From the Preface and Acknowledgements Western Apache-English Dictionary.)

The goal was to standardize the language so that all Apaches keep their rich heritage in today's bilingual, bicultural society.This version contains over 10,500 Apache / English word and over 4,400 dialect versions.

For me the Western Apache-English Dictionary is much more.I was born on the White Mountain Apache Reservation when the Apaches allowed peoples other than the Mountain Tribe to live there.My inability to live in the small town where I was born is reasonable -- it is due to combating simple attrition that has caused many native cultures to merge into others and disappear.

However, my heart and soul are linked to the blood of the land.When I discovered this book, which was compiled by Editor Dorothy Bray in collaboration with the White Mountain Apache Tribe, I felt as if I had found the manna in the desert.

Not only does this book contain the cross-reference between English and Apache words, it has the grammar, verb construction, changes in writing conventions, the Apache alphabet, and how to pronounce the words using the unique Apache marks.

The book format has sufficient white space to make it easy to associate the words, and to study the grammar rules.After these rules are meticulously detailed the next section is the Apache word translated to the English equivalent; the second is reversed.All of this care makes it easier to research or enhance linguistic skills.

For the Writer:

Most writers love dictionaries, reference books, and the etymology of words.Why would a writer want one more dictionary?

One answer is that we writers can "only cure" our addictions to books, words, and diverse languages by getting every book in the universe -- it is a long, constant quest.However, we do this to increase the veracity of researched details within the plot that allows readers to suspend disbelief making the story more than entertaining.

My word processor will not place the correct markings in the Apache words, but I will provide a few of the Apache words and English associations.If you intend to write a story set in Fort Apache or the surrounding area then you should purchase this book for reference.These genres include: S/F time travel, histories of the old West, historical romances, fantasies such as "A Connecticut Yankee in King Author's Court" except the hero finds he is facing Geronimo.

This section includes some of the words; please note the slashes between meanings because they indicate different dialects:

Five examples of case changes:

* iich'igo'aahi -- a teacher or he is teaching

* iich'igon'aa -- he taught

* iich'igon'aah -- you teach or you have taught * iich'igot'aah -- he will be taught

* iicg'igot'aahgo na'godi'i -- parable / story that teaches

Similar in meaning:

* kude -- here

* ku'de -- right here

* kudé' -- from here

* ku'dahyu' -- up here

* kude'yogo -- if it were here

English to Apache:

* evil --ch'lin biyi' golinthi

* do evil or witchcraft -- da'ohni'orda'oi'di'

This five star book is rich and rewarding.

Victoria Tarrani ... Read more

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"Meadows combines extensive ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and analysis of symbols to reconstruct the history and significance of the military societies of the Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche tribes of southwestern Oklahoma. More important, he shows how these groups adapted in the twentieth century to provide each tribe with its own distinctive identity while serving as tools for social integration and enculturation at the same time."--Journal of American History"Meadows produced a book that captures and records for all time the specifics of military society ceremonies, history and organization. In documenting and preserving these aspects of Indian life, he created a work valuable not just to anthropologists but to native preservationists as well."--Whispering Wind"Because of the book's descriptive content, readers interested in the clothing, songs, dances, recruitment strategies, and symbols used by the various military societies recognized by the Comanches, Apaches, and Kiowas will find this work incredibly useful."--Journal of Military History"This book deserves praise, especially for the author's own fieldwork and thorough use of the Native voice in depicting the multifaceted roles these sodalities played in Southern Plains Indian cultures."--Western Historical Quarterly"This is a good book, detailed, scholarly, and clearly presented. . . . The importance of [the author's] fieldwork cannot be overemphasized. The research is solid. The author used important, and some long-forgotten, archival manuscripts and the best linguistic data available."--Military History of the WestFor many Plains Indians, being a warrior and veteran has long been the traditional pathway to male honor and status. Men and boys formed military societies to celebrate victories in war, to perform community service, and to prepare young men for their role as warriors and hunters. By preserving cultural forms contained in song, dance, ritual, language, kinship, economics, naming, and other semireligious ceremonies, these societies have played an important role in maintaining Plains Indian culture from the pre-reservation era until today. In this book, William C. Meadows presents an in-depth ethnohistorical survey of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche military societies, drawn from extensive interviews with tribal elders and military society members, unpublished archival sources, and linguistic data. He examines their structure, functions, rituals, and martial symbols, showing how they fit within larger tribal organizations. And he explores how military societies, like powwows, have become a distinct public format for cultural and ethnic continuity. ... Read more

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very good
This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Apache culture. It may not have the flow of novel but that is not the intention.This book is a glimpse into the lives of the fiercest and most honorableNative Americans that ever lived...the Apache.

An objective and accurate ethnology
Opler's book is the result of lengthy interviews with informants during the early part of the Twentieth century .He has quoted many of these Apaches verbatum without editorializing thereby providing an authentic picture of the tribal lifeway during the 19th century. The reader learns not only the ethnological facts but senses the feelings, values and emotions of these people. "An Apache Lifeway" remains the most definitive source of material cited in later publications on the subject.The book is easily readable because anthropological jargon is avoided. ... Read more

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Coyote Myths
I bought this book because I am mainly interested in Coyote mythology.This book has a large section devoted to tales containing the Coyote in one context or another.All in all, there is approximatly 100 pages of Coyote "tails."This includes a section devoted to the "Coyote Cycle" reguarding animal myths.

Coyote Myths
I bought this book because I am mainly interested in Coyote mythology.This book has a large section devoted to tales containing the Coyote in one context or another.All in all, there is approximatly 100 pages of Coyote "tails."This includes a section devoted to the "Coyote Cycle" reguarding animal myths. ... Read more

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Seven essays, collected here for the first time, define some of the central concerns of linguistic anthropology through the close study of Western Apache, a language of astonishing complexity.All of the essays have been revised for this anthology. Basso, a major authority in the field of linguistic anthropology, has drawn on fieldwork at the village of Cibecue, whose residents speak a dialect of Western Apache that is spoken nowhere else.He shows how intricacies of language—place names, metaphor, uses of silence—help a people define their very existence, so that, in the words of one Apache woman, "If we lose our language, we will lose our breath; then we will die and blow away like leaves."His essays amply demonstrate that, while Apache language and culture are changing in response to modernization, they remain intricate, vital and unique. These essays illustrate not only the complexity of a particular cultural world as it has emerged to one observer over a protracted period of intensive fieldwork, but also the natural movement from the study of grammatical categories to that of language use and on to the study of the conceptual system underlying it.Each essay addresses a significant theoretical problem; taken together they constitute a microcosm of the anthropological understanding of language.CONTENTS
The Western Apache Classificatory Verb System: A Semantic Analysis
Semantic Aspects of Linguistic Acculturation
A Western Apache Writing System: The Symbols of Silas John
"Wise Words" of the Western Apache: Metaphor and Semantic Theory
"To Give Up on Words": Silence in Western Apache Culture
"Stalking With Stories": Names, Places, and Moral Narratives among the Western Apache
"Speaking with Names": Language and Landscapes among the Western Apache ... Read more

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Excellent Buy
I bought this book for an Anthropology class.The syntax is complex and sometimes difficult to understand, but for the subject matter, it's a great buy.

Interpretive Analysis of Western Apache Language and Culture
Author Keith Basso has compiled seven essays over a span of twenty-five years to create a thourough and interpretive look at importance of symbol in Western Apache language and culture. Through his study of NativeAmerican language, he adresses several topics including the influencialnature of metaphor and placenames, and the use of silence for the WesternApache. ... Read more

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A significant but often forgotten chapter in U.S. government and Native American relations is the twenty-seven year period of captivity endured by the Chiricahua Apaches following Geronimo’s final surrender. Nearly four hundred Chiricahuas were uprooted and exiled from their San Carlos, Arizona, home, where they ended up being held hostage by conflicting interests of the War Department, Interior Department, as well as southwestern economic and political expediency.

The installation at Fort Sill eventually grew to 50,000 acres and was originally promised to the Chiricahuas as their permanent reservation. In an effort to make them economically independent, the tribe was given a heard of 1,000 cattle, which eventually grew over the years to 10,000 head. In 1903, the military reneged on the initial agreement and decided to retain Fort Sill and turn the post into a field artillery training installation. In 1913, those Chiricahuas who wished were removed to New Mexico. Those remaining in Oklahoma were placed on former Kiowa and Comanche allotments-but not before the military sold their cattle herd. The Chiricahuas ended up with a mere 160-acre allotment beyond the post’s confines, an insufficient amount of land to provide a viable base of economic sustenance for the tribe.

Chiricahua Apache Prisoners of War is the first book of its kind to explore in depth this segment of the Chiricahuas’ history following Geronimo’s surrender, including the campaign for their release from military custody, their efforts to retain Fort Sill as their permanent home, and the conflicting interests who competed to resolve the Indians’ status. It will be of great interest to scholars in the fields of Native American studies, military studies, and western history. ... Read more

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The Chiricahua Apache Prisoners of WarFort Sill 1894-1914
The incarceration of the Chiricahua Apache is just another one of the hundreds of injustices and atrocities (humiliations, degradations, genocide, disease, and slavery) the Apaches have had to endure from theSpaniards, Mexicans, and white Americans.I already know Apache history and culture like the back of my hand, but I just wanted to get this fine pulication to add to my library.Now, for all those interested in the Apache, this is an illustrious portrayal of the shameful mistreatment and betrayal of a proud People by this U.S. government, when they were forced to suffer the indignities as prisoners of war.Great book!Buy it! ... Read more

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Between 1976 and 1993 Nancy Warren visited the Jicarilla Apache reservation in northern New Mexico numerous times. She was permitted to photograph their daily activities and various celebrations. Warren's ninety halftone photographs capture the Jicarilla lifestyles and customs, revealing an understanding of their culture and beliefs. While most sacred ceremonies could not be photographed, the important tribal foot race is well documented.

Veronica Tiller provides an essay about the reservation, its history, and its resources to familiarize potential visitors with the area.

"The reservation offers the outdoor enthusiast and tourist some of the most spectacular vacation, sightseeing, sports, hunting, and fishing opportunities in the southwestern United States. For the sportsman, hunting on the reservation is considered some of the best in the United Sates, drawing hunters and sightseers worldwide. Five major big game (elk and deer) migration corridors cross the reservation. Game includes elk, black bear, mountain lion, turkey, and Canadian geese. In addition, seven of the tribe's fifteen mountain lakes are stocked with rainbow, brown, and cutthroat trout. Fishing is permitted at Dulce, Enbom, Hayden, Horse, La Jara, Mundo, and Stone Lakes, and the Navajo River. The tribe welcomes all visitors, but it requires that they abide by guidelines and restrictions intended to protect and preserve natural resources."--from Veronica Tiller's essay ... Read more

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No Native American groups placed more emphasis on the horse in their lives than did the Navajo and Apache of the Southwest. They Sang for Horses, first published in 1966 and now considered a classic, remains the only comprehensive treatment of the profound mystical influence that the horse has exerted for more than three hundred years.

In this completely redesigned and expanded edition, LaVerne Harrell Clark examines how storytellers, singers, medicine men, and painters created the animal’s evolving symbolic significance by adapting existing folklore and cultural symbols. Exploring the horse’s importance in ceremonies, songs, prayers, customs, and beliefs, she investigates the period of the horse’s most pronounced cultural impact on the Navajo and the Apache, starting from the time of its acquisition from the Spanish in the seventeenth century and continuing to the mid-1960s, when the pickup truck began to replace it as the favored means of transportation. In addition, she presents a look at how Navajos and Apaches today continue to redefine the horse’s important role in their spiritual as well as material lives.

This classic work is a must for historians, readers interested in Native American folklore and mythology, and anyone who has ever been captivated by the magic and romance of the horse.

Co-winner of the 1967 University of Chicago Folklore Award ... Read more

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Enhanced with a new epilogue and photographs
In a newly revised edition enhanced with a new epilogue and photographs, LaVerne Clark's They Sang For Horses: The Impact Of The Horse On Navajo & Apache Folklore, is a fascinating and informative study of how the acquisition of the horse transformed the mythology and cosmology of the southwestern Native American cultures of the Navajo and Apache. Chapters include: The Acquisition of the Horse; The Gift of the Gods; The Magic and Ritual of the Raid for Horses; The People's Ways for Keeping Horses Holy; The Horse's Powers Over the People's Health; The Horse's Role in Folk Customs and Other Ceremonies. A strongly recommended addition for any academic or community library Native American Studies reading list or reference collection, They Sang For Horses also features an extensive bibliography for further readings, as well as a "user friendly" index. ... Read more

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As in many Native American communities, people on the San Carlos Apache reservation in southeastern Arizona have for centuries been exposed to contradictory pressures. One set of expectations is about conversion and modernization—spiritual, linguistic, cultural, technological. Another is about steadfast perseverance in the face of this cultural onslaught. Within this contradictory context lies the question of what validates a sense of Apache identity.For many people on the San Carlos reservation, both the traditional calls of the Mountain Spirits and the hard edge of a country, rock, or reggae song can evoke the feeling of being Apache. Using insights gained from both linguistic and musical practices in the community—as well as from his own experience playing in an Apache country band—David Samuels explores the complex expressive lives of these people to offer new ways of thinking about cultural identity. Samuels analyzes how people on the reservation make productive use of popular culture forms to create and transform contemporary expressions of Apache cultural identity.As Samuels learned, some popular songs—such as those by Bob Marley—are reminiscent of history and bring about an alignment of past and present for the Apache listener. Thinking about Geronimo, for instance, might mean one thing, but "putting a song on top of it" results in a richer meaning. He also proposes that the concept of the pun, as both a cultural practice and a means of analysis, helps us understand the ways in which San Carlos Apaches are able to make cultural symbols point in multiple directions at once. Through these punning, layered expressions, people on the reservation express identities that resonate with the complicated social and political history of the Apache community.This richly detailed study challenges essentialist notions of Native American tribal and ethnic identity by revealing the turbulent complexity of everyday life on the reservation. Samuels’s work is a multifaceted exploration of the complexities of sound, of language, and of the process of constructing and articulating identity in the twenty-first century. ... Read more

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Fascinating account of the Apache experience
This is the fascinating and absorbing life story of a Mescalero/Chiracahua Apache man -- one who, when he was just a small child, knew Geronimo. Told in his own words, the story is annotated by a white ethnologist, Opler, whomade a study of the Apache people over several decades and knew this manvery well (the first section of the book explains the culture andhistorical context), so that all references made by the speaker can beunderstood by any reader.As he recalls events of his life, he draws thereader deeper into his experience: from his respect and love of the oldApache ways, to the stress and anxiety created by tribal and familydisruption caused by government interference.He speaks often and atlength about the uses of spiritual power as found in plants, animals, andthe earth.This book was apparently written as a textbook for culturalanthropology at Stanford University, but it also deserves our attention forits humanity and for the intriguing story it tells. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. on September 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1951 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Mescalero Apache tribe hopes to enter a joint venture with utilities to store spent nuclear waste on its New Mexico reservation. Members of the tribe view the venture as an economic boon, while Native American, environmental and anti-nuclear activists protest it.

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Title: The Mescalero option. (storage of nuclear waste at Mescalero Apache tribe reservation in New Mexico)
Author: Luther J. Carter
Publication: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1994
Publisher: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
Volume: v50Issue: n5Page: p11(3)

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The product of more than fifteen years contact and life with the Mescalero people in southern New Mexico, Living Life's Circle is one of the first works devoted to the emergent new interdiscipline of ethnoastronomy, the study of how the sky and its movements form "templates" for life in particular cultures. Urged by her friend and mentor, the remarkable singer and medicine man Bernard Second, to "Pay attention," Farrer began to recognize a powerful primary metaphor based on acute astronomical observation and its direct relevance to all aspects of Mescalero life.

"Should be read by every student of culture."--M. Jane Young ... Read more

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A great book for a lover of Religion
This book focuses only on the affects of religon in an Apache society. The author, Claire Farrer, uses first person encounters to discribe rituals and the society surrounding them, not facts written fifty years ago. It is very lively and not at all what I expected for an Antro. class. I would reccomend this book to anyone who loves Native American history. ... Read more

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"Excerpt from the book..."

Under the willows at the edge of the pool a young girl sat
daydreaming, though the day was nearly done. All in the valley was
wrapped in shadow
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