Jessica Dawn Palmer lectures on Native American culture and wildlife issues and is the author of 29 books. She lives in Colorado and works as a wildlife rehabilitator.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

¿1.¿In the Land Before Time: The Prehistory of the Southwest

¿2.¿Advent: The People and Their Arrival in the American Southwest

¿3.¿From Athapascan to Apache: Tribes and Divisions

¿4.¿Governance and Structure: The Family Unit and Governments of the Various Tribes and Bands

¿5.¿Of Hunt and Harvest: Food Resources and Food Production

¿6.¿Of Hearth and Home: Everyday Living and Everyday Things

¿7.¿Families and Marriage: The Nuclear Family-Couples and Their Children

¿8.¿Women's Roles:¿The Puberty Rite and Women's Responsibilities in Society

¿9.¿Matters of Faith: The Supernatural and Relationships with the Divine

10.¿Rituals and Rites: The Powers and the Place of the Shaman in the Religious Environment

11.¿Witchcraft, Taboos and Rites of Death:¿Religion in Everyday Usage

12.¿Entertainments and Vices: Games, Play and Leisure-Time Activities

13.¿The Arts of War: The Training of the Young Warrior

14.¿Enmity and War:¿Raid and Warfare as Practiced Among the Apache

15.¿The Spanish Period:¿From 1541 to 1824

16.¿The Mexican-American Period:¿From 1828 to 1860

17.¿The Civil War:¿From 1860 to 1865

18.¿Indeh-From People to Ghosts: The Dissolution from Free Peoples to Reservations

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index