linguistic Anthropologist who studied the Western Apache in Arizona, more specifically a place called Cibecue. In his essay Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache, he traveled with his Apache companions Charles Henry; who he describes as a veteran maker of place-worlds, and Charles' cousin, Morley Cromwell. Together their objective was to record topographic maps of the aproximate location of each and every place that bears and Apache name within a twenty-mile radius of the
between the environment and Western Apache people. The bonds between the two are so strong that it is embedded in their culture and history. Keith Basso, author of Wisdom Sits in Places expanded on this theory and did so by divulging himself into Western Apaches life. He spent fifteen years with the Apache people studying their relationship with the environment, specifically concentrating on ‘Place-names.’ When Basso first began to work with the Apache people, one of his Apache friends told him to ‘learn
RITUALS AND DRAMA (Sunrise Ceremony) Rituals are represented in our lives through weddings, funerals, ceremonies and repetitive actions that we use on a daily basis. The Apache Indians of North America have had many traditions and rituals that were practiced religiously. Amongst them is the Initiation service or commonly identified as the Sunrise Ceremony for women. The ceremony originates from the White Painted Woman who was the ‘Changing Woman’ and is held a season after a girl’s first menstrual
Western Apache Language and Culture, written by Keith Basso, is a book that shows how the language of Western Apache is one of the most cultivating and unique languages. The book focuses merely on the examination of linguistics and anthropology within the Apache language. His research is based on the structure of language within Apache culture. This includes the study of verbs,nouns,names, etc. This book breaks down everything piece by piece which gives us very descriptive details and information
Section 1 Question 2 Food sharing traditionally has been a large part of indigenous societies, between the Dolgan/ Nganasan, Batek and the Western Apache food sharing has been a large part of their society. All three have similarities and differences; even our own society has a food sharing implications. The Dolgan and Nganasan food sharing process consisted of people supplying resources through kinship. Much of the sharing with meat comes from the reciprocal relationships with the animals they
Silence in Western Apache Culture is an investigation of situations when members of a certain Apache community in the western United States assume the state of silence as a form of social interaction. In this paper, I will first note details of the society under consideration and Basso’s interests in regards to the questions he is trying to answer. I will introduce some anthropological concepts that are suitable to the discussion, followed by Basso’s observations regarding silence in the Apache community
problem for the American Indians. For the Western Apache this problem first came to light in 1853 after the Gadsden Purchase was finalized. The Whitemen invaded the western Apache’s Arizona territory not with peace, but with demands and open hostility. Thus began a brutal thirty year war that led to Apache defeat (Basso pg. 24). The creation of reservations in 1872 was not enough for the Whitemen. They also created an assimilation program for the Western Apache because acclimating one’s self to Anglo
between the environment and Western Apache people. The connection between the two is so strong that it's embedded in their culture and history. Keith Basso is the author of wisdom Sits in Places, expanded on this theory by divulging himself into Western Apaches life. He spent many years living with the Apache people learning their relationship with the environment, specifically focused on ‘Place names. After Basso first began to work with the Apache people, one of his Apache friends told him to ‘learn
successful in creating an interesting ethnography about the Western Apache culture by using two usually overlooked topics, geography and oral history. Geography and the location of places is usually forgotten or seen as just topography, but Basso proves that geography is more than a location. It is the forgotten history of the name of a place that makes the locality more important than it seems. While whitemen (a term frequented by the Apache to describe White European culture) has constantly renamed
The Apaches, like most Native Americans, have no written history other than that written by white men. But the story of the Apaches did not begin in the American Southwest but in the northwestern corner of North America, the western Subarctic region of Alaska and Canada. The Apache Indians belong to the southern branch of the Athabascan group, whose languages constitute a large family, with speakers in Alaska, western Canada, and American Southwest. The fact that the Apaches originated in the western
The Apache people are native Americans who have been-and are being- oppressed by the united states government. This oppression started in 1849 and has continued until today. In 1849, the Apache Wars started what would be an endless abuse by the United States government towards the Apache people. The United States wanted their citizens to move west and take over Native Americans’ land to build railroads and expand their lands as a country but when the Apaches didn’t do what they wanted they made them
when Buck informs him the Plummer brother's are in Lordsburg. The Plummer brothers killed Ringo's father and brother and Ringo has sworn to get revenge. Prior to the stagecoaches departure the group is informed by Lt. Blanchard that Geronimo and the Apaches are on a warpath. Lt. Blanchard tells the group he and his men will escort them to Dry Fork. However from there onward they will have no military protection. Moments before departure the coach is hailed down and two more passengers board Hatfield
Oklahoma Apache Tribe Apache is a word that comes from the Zuni word meaning enemy and the Yuma word for “fighting men.” The Western Apache, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan and Kiowa are the six sub-tribes the Apache Tribe consist of. Each of the sub-tribes are from a different geographical region. There are six regional groups. It’s impossible because of their nomadic nature that there were a lot of names that were used to identify the same tribe. The Angelo theory is that the Apache Indians
was headquartered at Fort Huachuca, the base of operations for the campaign. The Army had permission to go to Mexico in pursuit. Captain Henry Lawton, commanding officer of "B" Troop, 4th Cavalry, was an experienced soldier who knew the ways of the Apaches. His tactics were to wear them down by constant pursuit. Stationed at the fort at that time were many men who would later become well known in the Army: Colonel W. B. Royall, commanding officer of the fort and the 4th Cavalry, who was responsible
was extremely distasteful to their western Christian morality. The practice had been carried out among the native tribes for centuries and had spread among the Spanish and Mexicans as they began to enter the territory and was the most serious cause of insecurity in the eyes of Maj. Edward Canby, who found himself the senior Union officer in the New Mexico Territory as the Civil War heated up. Canby's proposed solution was to remove the Navajo and Mescalero Apaches, considered “wild tribes” to a reservation
(Hamalainen, 31). The Apache’s formerly advantageous development of farming began to backfire, however, since their rivals simply traded in their bison meat for Pueblo maize and attacked the numerous Apache villages with guerrilla raids, exploiting their dependence on the land (Hamalainen, 32). By the 1720s, the Apache grew increasingly desperate from Comanche attacks, and they began to offer submission to Spanish rule as a potential
Cultural investigation Apache Native American Indian Population: Their population in the early settlement in 1878 was estimated between 1600 and 2400 and now it is estimated that it is the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 53,330 people identified themselves as Apache, up from 35,861 in 1980. Traditional family groups: The Chiricahua: their most noted leaders being Cochise, Victorio, Loco, Chato, Nahche, Bonito and Geronimo, Lipan: The Lipan are first mentioned in Spanish records in 1718 when they
A nation formed from the blood of an entire culture. The Revisionist Western Film, Geronimo: An American Legend, (1993) directed by Walter Hill, sheds light on the events that transpired as the Whites migrated and expanded towards the West. The theme of this movie revolves around the oppression and injustices committed on the “inferior” Apache race by the “superior” Whites, and the conflicts that ensued from it. In the face of oppression and injustice, one will go to great lengths to protect and
The Navajo creation involves four worlds. In the first world the First Man and the First Woman became known. In the second world it is much like the story of the Garden of Eden in the bible. The First Man and First Woman get banished to the third world where they begin to procreate. Finally in the fourth world they decide to settle down with help of the wind God. The Navajo people are the largest recognized tribe in the Southwestern United States. This tribe consists of 300,048 enrolled tribal members
Peyote and Native American Culture Peyote was originally described in 1560, however it was not until the middle of the nineteenth century that botanists were able to conduct field research and correctly classify the cactus (Anderson, 1980). Field studies have concluded that there are two distinct populations of peyote which represent two species. The first and most common, Lophophora williamsii extends from southern Texas reaching south to the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi. The second and least