Research Catalog

Title

The light gray people : an ethno-history of the Lipan Apaches of Texas and northern Mexico / Nancy McGown Minor.

Author

Minor, Nancy McGown.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2009.

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Description

xi, 188 p. : maps; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Ethno-history of the Lipan Apaches of Texas and northern Mexico

Subject

• Lipan Indians > Texas > History
• Lipan Indians > Mexico, North > History
• Lipan Indians > Texas > Ethnic identity
• Lipan Indians > Mexico, North > Ethnic identity
• Lipan Indians > Texas > Social life and customs
• Lipan Indians > Mexico, North > Social life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-184) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Translation and meaning of the tribal name Lipan -- The origin of the Lipan Apaches -- The Zuazua history -- Early Lipan-Spanish contacts in Texas -- Physical appearance and manner of dress -- Lipan Apache material culture -- Lipan Apache economic culture : hunting and gathering -- Lipan Apache economic culture : the shadow trade economy -- Lipan Apache social culture : family, kinship and society -- Political organization : the Lipan band -- Political organization : the Lipan chief -- Lipan Apache raiding -- Captives -- Lipan Apache warfare -- Lipan Apache religion : overview -- Lipan Apache religion : mythic shamanism -- Lipan Apache religion : curative shamanism.

ISBN

• 9780761848530 (clothbound : alk. paper)
• 0761848533 (clothbound : alk. paper)
• 9780761848547 (paperback : alk. paper)
• 0761848541 (paperback : alk. paper)
• 9780761848554 (eISBN)
• 076184855X (eISBN)

LCCN

^^2009934373

OCLC

• 435421567
• SCSB-11492908

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Harvard Library