Author: Alice Lee Marriott
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803251250
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Saynday's People brings together two related volumes by the distinguished ethnologist and author Alice Marriott. The Saynday of the title and the central figure of Winter-Telling Stories is a combination of trickster and hero peculiar to Asiatic and American Indian mythology. He could do almost anything when he was using his medicine power for good, but Saynday was a great joker and when playing tricks often got what was coming to him. Indians on Horseback is both a history of the Kiowas and a vivid account of their way of life. The narrative is enriched not only by detailed descriptions of how these first Americans made moccasins and cradles, thread and arrows and tipis, but also by a Plains Indian cookbook which includes recipes for such dishes as pemmican and stone-boiled buffalo.
Saynday's People
Author: Alice Lee Marriott
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803251250
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Saynday's People brings together two related volumes by the distinguished ethnologist and author Alice Marriott. The Saynday of the title and the central figure of Winter-Telling Stories is a combination of trickster and hero peculiar to Asiatic and American Indian mythology. He could do almost anything when he was using his medicine power for good, but Saynday was a great joker and when playing tricks often got what was coming to him. Indians on Horseback is both a history of the Kiowas and a vivid account of their way of life. The narrative is enriched not only by detailed descriptions of how these first Americans made moccasins and cradles, thread and arrows and tipis, but also by a Plains Indian cookbook which includes recipes for such dishes as pemmican and stone-boiled buffalo.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803251250
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Saynday's People brings together two related volumes by the distinguished ethnologist and author Alice Marriott. The Saynday of the title and the central figure of Winter-Telling Stories is a combination of trickster and hero peculiar to Asiatic and American Indian mythology. He could do almost anything when he was using his medicine power for good, but Saynday was a great joker and when playing tricks often got what was coming to him. Indians on Horseback is both a history of the Kiowas and a vivid account of their way of life. The narrative is enriched not only by detailed descriptions of how these first Americans made moccasins and cradles, thread and arrows and tipis, but also by a Plains Indian cookbook which includes recipes for such dishes as pemmican and stone-boiled buffalo.
Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians (Illustrated Edition)
Author: James Mooney
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The desire to preserve to future ages the memory of past achievements is a universal human instinct, as witness the clay tablets of old Chaldea, the hieroglyphs of the obelisks, our countless thousands of manuscripts and printed volumes, and the gossiping old story-teller of the village or the backwoods cabin. The reliability of the record depends chiefly on the truthfulness of the recorder and the adequacy of the method employed. In Asia, the cradle of civilization, authentic history goes back thousands of years; in Europe the record begins much later, while in America the aboriginal narrative, which may be considered as fairly authentic, is all comprised within a thousand years. The peculiar and elaborate systems by means of which the more cultivated ancient nations of the south recorded their histories are too well known to students to need more than a passing notice here. It was known that our own tribes had various ways of depicting their mythology, their totems, or isolated facts in the life of the individual or nation, but it is only within a few years that it was even suspected that they could have anything like continuous historical records, even in embryo. The fact is now established, however, that pictographic records covering periods of from sixty to perhaps two hundred years or more do, or did, exist among several tribes, and it is entirely probable that every leading mother tribe had such a record of its origin and wanderings, the pictured narrative being compiled by the priests and preserved with sacred care through all the shifting vicissitudes of savage life until lost or destroyed in the ruin that overwhelmed the native governments at the coming of the white man. Several such histories are now known, and as the aboriginal field is still but partially explored, others may yet come to light.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The desire to preserve to future ages the memory of past achievements is a universal human instinct, as witness the clay tablets of old Chaldea, the hieroglyphs of the obelisks, our countless thousands of manuscripts and printed volumes, and the gossiping old story-teller of the village or the backwoods cabin. The reliability of the record depends chiefly on the truthfulness of the recorder and the adequacy of the method employed. In Asia, the cradle of civilization, authentic history goes back thousands of years; in Europe the record begins much later, while in America the aboriginal narrative, which may be considered as fairly authentic, is all comprised within a thousand years. The peculiar and elaborate systems by means of which the more cultivated ancient nations of the south recorded their histories are too well known to students to need more than a passing notice here. It was known that our own tribes had various ways of depicting their mythology, their totems, or isolated facts in the life of the individual or nation, but it is only within a few years that it was even suspected that they could have anything like continuous historical records, even in embryo. The fact is now established, however, that pictographic records covering periods of from sixty to perhaps two hundred years or more do, or did, exist among several tribes, and it is entirely probable that every leading mother tribe had such a record of its origin and wanderings, the pictured narrative being compiled by the priests and preserved with sacred care through all the shifting vicissitudes of savage life until lost or destroyed in the ruin that overwhelmed the native governments at the coming of the white man. Several such histories are now known, and as the aboriginal field is still but partially explored, others may yet come to light.
The Autobiography of a Kiowa Apache Indian
Author: Charles S. Brant
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486148289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Ethnological classic details life of 19th-century Native American — childhood, tribal customs, contact with whites, government attitudes toward tribe, much more. Editor's preface, introduction and epilogue. Index. 1 map.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486148289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Ethnological classic details life of 19th-century Native American — childhood, tribal customs, contact with whites, government attitudes toward tribe, much more. Editor's preface, introduction and epilogue. Index. 1 map.
The Kiowas
Author: Mildred P. Mayhall
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806109879
Category : Kiowa Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806109879
Category : Kiowa Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Kiowa
Author: Isabel Crawford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Mission of the Women's American Baptist Home Mission Society at Saddle Mountain, Kiowa County, Oklahoma.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Mission of the Women's American Baptist Home Mission Society at Saddle Mountain, Kiowa County, Oklahoma.
Kiowa Belief and Ritual
Author: Benjamin R. Kracht
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496232658
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Benjamin Kracht's Kiowa Belief and Ritual, a collection of materials gleaned from Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field notes and augmented by Alice Marriott's field notes, significantly enhances the existing literature concerning Plains religions.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496232658
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Benjamin Kracht's Kiowa Belief and Ritual, a collection of materials gleaned from Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field notes and augmented by Alice Marriott's field notes, significantly enhances the existing literature concerning Plains religions.
Andele, the Mexican-Kiowa Captive
Author: J. J. Methvin
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826317483
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A captivity narrative that provides eyewitness accounts of the twilight years of Kiowa freedom on the Plains, and early reservation life.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826317483
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A captivity narrative that provides eyewitness accounts of the twilight years of Kiowa freedom on the Plains, and early reservation life.
The Kiowa
Author: John R. Wunder
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Examines the history, culture, and changing fortunes of the Kiowa Indians.
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Examines the history, culture, and changing fortunes of the Kiowa Indians.
The Kiowa Indians, Their History and Life Stories
Author: Hugh D. Corwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kiowa Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
"The motive in writing these historical articles is to preserve the history of the Kiowa People. These articles are largely limited to the time the Kiowas came to the area of the Wichita Mountains. Since the Kiowas have no written history beyond their picture calendars, and there is some difference in the interpretations of these pictures, the writer has depended on the verbal stories of their lives and events, using older people who have good memories for the basis of these articles."--Introduction.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kiowa Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
"The motive in writing these historical articles is to preserve the history of the Kiowa People. These articles are largely limited to the time the Kiowas came to the area of the Wichita Mountains. Since the Kiowas have no written history beyond their picture calendars, and there is some difference in the interpretations of these pictures, the writer has depended on the verbal stories of their lives and events, using older people who have good memories for the basis of these articles."--Introduction.
The Kiowa Indians
Author: Terrance Dolan
Publisher: Chelsea Clubhouse
ISBN: 9780791016633
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Describes the history and culture of the Kiowa Indians, recounts their interactions with the white settlers, and looks at the Kiowa today
Publisher: Chelsea Clubhouse
ISBN: 9780791016633
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Describes the history and culture of the Kiowa Indians, recounts their interactions with the white settlers, and looks at the Kiowa today