mfouche@thepost.com (Marie Fouche) writes:
> I was wondering if anyone out there could help me. A woman I know is
> raising her son alone, and he is part Apache. She would like to teach her
> son of his people's history, but she doesn't know what to look for. I was
> wondering if you could help her...
There are several resources that I have found. I admire her willingness to
make her son aware of his culture, one which is different from her own.
I have attached a bibliography which contains some sources for the legends.
Remember, these were recorded by non-Apaches, and may not be entirely
accurate, due to difference in culture, motive, and hesitancy of Natives to
share complete/accurate legends.
I have more, but could not lay my hands on them tonight. Email me
(Kurihato@ctc.net) and I will try to dig them up for your friend.
PERIODICALS
Officer, Jemes E. "Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians."
Memoirs of the American Folklore Society, No. 37 (1942)
Fatty, Austace. "Chiricahua Legends." Recorded by Eve Ball. Western
Folklore, Vol. XV (Apr. 1956)
French, David. "Comparative Notes on Chiricahua Apache Mythology." Memoirs of
the American Folklore Society, Vol. XXXVII (1942)
Officer, Jemes E. "Notes on Chiricahua and Apache Culture: Supernatural
Power and the Shaman." Primitive Man, Vol. XX (Jan. -
Apr. 1947)
Officer, Jemes E. and Castetter, Edward F.
"The Ethnobotany of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apaches."
Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest, Vol. VII (1936)
Officer, Jemes E. and Hoijer, Harry.
"The Raid and Warpath Language of the Chiricahua Apache."
American Anthropologist, Vol. XLII (Oct. - Dec. 1942)
Hoijer, Harry. "The Southern Athapaskan Languages." American Anthropologist,
Vol. XL (1938)
BOOKS
Hoijer, Harry. Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1938.
Opler, Morris E. An Apache Life-way: The Economic, Social and Religious
Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1941.