{"product_id":"autobiography-of-a-kiowa-indian-hardback-9781496243188","title":"Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian (Hardback) 9781496243188","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAutobiography of a Kiowa Indian\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCharles E. Apekaum (Author), Benjamin R. Kracht (Edited by), Weston La Barre (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496243188\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e242 pages, 7 photographs, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Kiowa storyteller Charles Apekaum describes his homeland during a critical transition from traditional life on the Great Plains to reservation times. This is an essential volume in the unfolding traditions of Plains Indigenous history.”-Denise Low, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBorn during the final years of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation, Charles E. Apekaum, grandson of Kiowa chief Stumbling Bear, served as the principal interpreter for the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field expedition in 1935. Educated, bilingual, and world traveled, Apekaum’s services as a translator were sought by anyone who dealt with the Kiowa Indian Agency personnel, politicians, and scholars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The following year, Apekaum traveled throughout Oklahoma with anthropologist Weston La Barre and ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, serving as their liaison as they documented the peyote religion. During off days, Apekaum narrated his life story to La Barre, recounting the final days of the reservation, allotment, the early days of Anadarko, Oklahoma, his seventeen years attending boarding schools, service in the navy during World War I and then as a state game warden, his work translating for politicians, and his involvement in the Native American Church. La Barre never published the manuscript, which contains rich details about intertribal variants of the sacred peyote rite as well as about Apekaum’s life experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of a Kiowa Indian\u003c\/i\u003e Benjamin R. Kracht presents Apekaum’s autobiography for the first time. This eyewitness account is an important addition to Native American life narratives and the reconstruction of Kiowa cultural, social, and religious life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the southern Great Plains.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cdiv\u003e Significance\u003cbr\u003e Editing \u003c\/div\u003e Preface by Weston La Barre\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. Family Life: Childhood to Adulthood \u003cdiv\u003e Overview\u003cbr\u003e Narrative \u003c\/div\u003e 2. School Days, Navy Life, and Politics \u003cdiv\u003e Overview\u003cbr\u003e School Days\u003cbr\u003e Navy Life\u003cbr\u003e Politics \u003c\/div\u003e 3. Religion \u003cdiv\u003e Overview\u003cbr\u003e Peyotism vs. Christian Beliefs\u003cbr\u003e Early Peyote Use among the Kiowas\u003cbr\u003e Peyote Doctoring, Visions, and Witching\u003cbr\u003e Peyotism among the Comanches, Caddos, Osages, and Other Tribes\u003cbr\u003e Peyote Songs\u003cbr\u003e Mixed-Blood and Non-Indian Peyotists\u003cbr\u003e Apekaum and the Native American Church\u003cbr\u003e Peyote and the Ten Medicines \u003c\/div\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600288674072,"sku":"9781496243188","price":41.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/autobiography-of-a-kiowa-indian-hardback-9781496243188","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}