Life Among the Texas Indians

by Vere, David La

• ISBN13: 9781585445288
• ISBN10: 1585445282
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-28
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

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 details 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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction: From Texas to Oklahoma	3	(46)
Raids and Warfare	49	(27)
Southern Plains Cultures	76	(44)
A Spiritual Life	120	(28)
Education and Health	148	(29)
Life on the Reservation	177	(35)
Old Ways, New Ways	212	(19)
Epilogue	231	(4)
Notes	235	(18)
Bibliography	253	(8)
Index	261