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Life among the Texas Indians : the WPA narratives / by David La Vere.
- Title
- Life among the Texas Indians : the WPA narratives / by David La Vere.
- Author
- La Vere, David.
- Publication
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c1998.
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- Description
- xvii, 270 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation series in the West and Southwest ; no. 18
- Uniform Title
- Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 18.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: from Texas to Oklahoma -- Raids and warfare -- Southern plains cultures -- A spiritual life -- Education and health -- Life on the Reservation -- Old ways, new ways.
- ISBN
- 0890968098
- LCCN
- ^^^97032891^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library