Stories from Saddle Mountain : Autobiographies of a Kiowa Family (American Indian Lives)

Tongkeamha, Henrietta/ Tongkeamha, Raymond/ LaBrada, Lisa

University of Nebraska Press（2021/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 222 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781496228116
• DDC分類 978.00497492

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Named a 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Stories from Saddle Mountain recounts family stories that connected the Tongkeamhas, a Kiowa family, to the Saddle Mountain community for more than a century. Henrietta Apayyat (1912-93) grew up and married near Saddle Mountain, where she and her husband raised five sons and five daughters. She began penning her memoirs in 1968, including accounts about a Peyote meeting, revivals and Christmas encampments at Saddle Mountain Church, subsistence activities, and attending boarding schools and public schools.

When not in school, Henrietta spent much of her childhood and adolescence close to home, working and occasionally traveling to neighboring towns with her grandparents, whereas her son Raymond Tongkeamha left frequently and wandered farther. Both experienced the transformation from having no indoor plumbing or electricity to having radios, televisions, and JCPenney. Together, their autobiographies illuminate dynamic changes and steadfast traditions in twentieth-century Kiowa life in the Saddle Mountain countryside.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Henrietta Tongkeamha's Memoirs
Overview
Editing
"This Is the Story of My Life"
2. Raymond Tongkeamha's Memoirs
Overview
Editing
May 2018 Narrative
June 2019 Narrative
November 2019 Narrative
December 2019 Narrative
Notes
References
Index