Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-4318-8 (ISBN)
The following year, Apekaum traveled throughout Oklahoma with anthropologist Weston La Barre and ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, serving as their liaison as they documented the peyote religion. During off days, Apekaum narrated his life story to La Barre, recounting the final days of the reservation, allotment, the early days of Anadarko, Oklahoma, his seventeen years attending boarding schools, service in the navy during World War I and then as a state game warden, his work translating for politicians, and his involvement in the Native American Church. La Barre never published the manuscript, which contains rich details about intertribal variants of the sacred peyote rite as well as about Apekaum’s life experience.
In Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian Benjamin R. Kracht presents Apekaum’s autobiography for the first time. This eyewitness account is an important addition to Native American life narratives and the reconstruction of Kiowa cultural, social, and religious life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the southern Great Plains.
Charles E. Apekaum (ca. 1890) was born during the final years of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation. He served as interpreter for the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field expedition in 1935, among many other jobs as a translator. Weston La Barre was an anthropologist best known for his work on traditional uses of plants in Native American religions and use of psychoanalysis in ethnography. He is the author of The Peyote Cult, a landmark work in psychological anthropology. Benjamin R. Kracht is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He is the editor of Stories from Saddle Mountain: Autobiographies of a Kiowa Family by Henrietta Tongkeamha and Raymond Tongkeamha (Nebraska, 2021) and the author of Kiowa Belief and Ritual (Nebraska, 2017), among other books.
List of Illustrations
Introduction Significance
Editing Preface by Weston La Barre
Acknowledgments
1. Family Life: Childhood to Adulthood Overview
Narrative 2. School Days, Navy Life, and Politics Overview
School Days
Navy Life
Politics 3. Religion Overview
Peyotism vs. Christian Beliefs
Early Peyote Use among the Kiowas
Peyote Doctoring, Visions, and Witching
Peyotism among the Comanches, Caddos, Osages, and Other Tribes
Peyote Songs
Mixed-Blood and Non-Indian Peyotists
Apekaum and the Native American Church
Peyote and the Ten Medicines Notes
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | American Indian Lives |
| Zusatzinfo | 7 photographs, index |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-4318-8 / 1496243188 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-4318-8 / 9781496243188 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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