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Chiricahua Apache Enduring Power: Naiche's Puberty Ceremony Paintings (Contemporary American Indians)

Chiricahua Apache Enduring Power: Naiche's Puberty Ceremony Paintings (Contemporary American Indians)

Language: English

Pages: 240

ISBN: 0817353674

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


A gripping story of the cultural resilience of the descendants of Geronimo and Cochise.
 
            This book reveals the conflicting meanings of power held by the federal government and the Chiricahua Apaches throughout their history of interaction. When Geronimo and Naiche, son of Cochise, surrendered in 1886, their wartime exploits came to an end, but their real battle for survival was only beginning. Throughout their captivity in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma, Naiche kept alive Chiricahua spiritual power by embodying it in his beautiful hide paintings of the Girl’s Puberty Ceremony—a ritual at the very heart of tribal cultural life and spiritual strength.
            This narrative is a tribute to the Chiricahua people, who survive today, despite military efforts to annihilate them, government efforts to subjugate them, and social efforts to destroy their language and culture. Although federal policy makers brought to bear all the power at their command, they failed to eradicate Chiricahua spirit and identity nor to convince them that their lower status was just part of the natural social order. Naiche, along with many other Chiricahuas, believed in another kind of power. Although not known to have Power of his own in the Apache sense, Naiche’s paintings show that he believed in a vital source of spiritual strength. In a very real sense, his paintings were visual prayers for the continuation of the Chiricahua people. Accessible to individuals for many purposes, Power helped the Chiricahuas survive throughout their history.
            In this book, Griffin-Pierce explores Naiche’s artwork through the lens of current anthropological theory on power, hegemony, resistance, and subordination. As she retraces the Chiricahua odyssey during 27 years of incarceration and exile by visiting their internment sites, she reveals how the Power was with them throughout their dark period. As it was when the Chiricahua warriors and their families struggled to stay alive, Power remains the centering focus for contemporary Chiricahua Apaches. Although never allowed to return to their beloved homeland, not only are the Chiricahua Apaches surviving today, they are keeping their traditions alive and their culture strong and vital.

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to speak after Miriam Perrett, a librarian from Wales who has done a lot of research into Naiche’s hide paintings, and to provide an art historian’s perspective on Naiche’s paintings of the Girl’s Puberty Ceremony. All the other Chiricahuas painted war exploits or courting scenes. Some even did pictures of the circus when it came to town. But Naiche was the only one who painted the Girl’s Puberty Ceremony. I’d like you to shed some light on the symbolism in his paintings and the signi¤cance of

the other train asked for permission to speak to Geronimo and to buy some souvenirs from him. After Geronimo had sold all of his belongings, he became the agent for other Chiricahuas, selling brass rings, cartridge belts, and other items. In addition, a soldier hawked the wares, explaining that Geronimo had worn the article in warfare (Skinner 1987:105). A crowd of a thousand people met the train at the Mobile depot, and, Military Conquest 69 when they reached the Pensacola Junction, a

dedicated to Naiche, who led his people through the most dif¤cult part of their history. Table of Contents List of Figures ix Timeline of Chiricahua Imprisonment xi Prologue: Life before Naiche and the Chiricahua Apache Prisoners of War xiii Foreword: A Bronze Ga’an Speaks J. Jefferson Reid and Stephanie M. Whittlesey xvii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Ethnographic and Historic Background of the Chiricahua Apaches 11 Chapter 2: Military Conquest as a Physical, Psychological, and Symbolic Event 46

long after they had left; some Apache children even took the ¤rst or last names of the families as their own to show gratitude. Pratt’s intention was “to promote the assimilationist goals of the federal Pratt and the Carlisle Boarding School 101 government by placing Indian children in intimate contact with “ ‘civilized’ American society” (Trennert 1983:267). He summed up his philosophy in a letter to Senator Henry Dawes: “The end to be gained is the complete civilization of the Indian . . .

warpath in Arizona or New Mexico inside of twelve months” (Turcheneske 1997:44). He pointed out that what he was asking was relatively little in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of dollars that had been spent to “subjugate them and put them where they are now” (44). The War Department had tried to stamp out the traditional family band system at Mount Vernon Barracks by forcing the Chiricahuas to live in a single village. At Fort Sill, they were allowed to live in a number of villages, each

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