Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico
by Lynda A. Sánchez, Mary M. Serna
English | EPUB | 11.6 MB
by Lynda A. Sánchez, Mary M. Serna
English | EPUB | 11.6 MB
Storytelling has been a vital and vivid tradition in Apachelife. Coyote tales, the creation legend and stories of historic battles withComanche and Anglo intruders create a colorful mosaic of tribal heritage. PercyBigmouth, a prominent oral historian of the Mescalero and Lipan Apache tribes,realized in the early twentieth century that the old ways were waning. He wrotein longhand what he had learned from his father, Scout Bigmouth, a prison campsurvivor at Fort Sumner and participant in the turbulent Apache Wars. Joinauthor Lynda Sánchez as she brings to light the ancient legends and lore of theApaches living in the shadow of Mescalero’s Sacred Mountain. Seventy-five yearsin the making, this collection is a loving tribute to a way of life nearly lostto history.