Life Among the Texas Indians
Life Among the Texas Indians Historian David La Vere has culled from the Indian-Pioneer Histories housed in the Indian Archives of the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma City a wealth of vivid…
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Life Among the Texas Indians
Historian David La Vere has culled from the Indian-Pioneer Histories housed in the Indian Archives of the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma City a wealth of vivid detail about life among the former Texas Indian peoples. From the 112 bound volumes that resulted, Dr. The oral histories that make up this collection were gathered during the Great Depression by the Works Progress Administration.
La Vere has edited the narratives to group excerpts topically. La Vere has gathered all the material pertinent to the Indians who came from Texas into 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. Under farming, for example, he gives this report from a Wichita man: "We raise corn, pumpkin, sweet potato.
I don't know where we got corn, probably given to my people four
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