Charles E. Apekaum (ca. 1890) was born during the final years of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation. He served as interpreter for the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field expedition in 1935, among many other jobs as a translator. Weston La Barre was an anthropologist best known for his work on traditional uses of plants in Native American religions and use of psychoanalysis in ethnography. He is the author of The Peyote Cult, a landmark work in psychological anthropology. Benjamin R. Kracht is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He is the editor of Stories from Saddle Mountain: Autobiographies of a Kiowa Family by Henrietta Tongkeamha and Raymond Tongkeamha (Nebraska, 2021) and the author of Kiowa Belief and Ritual (Nebraska, 2017), among other books.
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List of Illustrations Introduction Significance Editing Preface by Weston La Barre Acknowledgments 1. Family Life: Childhood to Adulthood Overview Narrative 2. School Days, Navy Life, and Politics Overview School Days Navy Life Politics 3. Religion Overview Peyotism vs. Christian Beliefs Early Peyote Use among the Kiowas Peyote Doctoring, Visions, and Witching Peyotism among the Comanches, Caddos, Osages, and Other Tribes Peyote Songs Mixed-Blood and Non-Indian Peyotists Apekaum and the Native American Church Peyote and the Ten Medicines Notes References Index
"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 The Turtle's Beating Heart: One Family's Story of Lenape Survival