Andele, The Mexican-Kiowa Captive: A Story of Real Life Among the Indians

Amazon.com Price: $30.00 (as of 20/04/2019 09:37 PST- Details)

Description

Early in 1867 Kiowa chief Many Bears paid the Mescalero Apache one mule, two buffalo robes, and a red blanket to buy ten-year-old José Andrés Martínez. Abducted near his home in Las Vegas, New Mexico, in October 1866, he become Many Bears’s grandson, Andele. He quickly adapted to his new life, grew to manhood some of the Kiowa, took part in Kiowa raiding parties when he turned sixteen, and three times married Kiowa women.

Confined to a reservation in Oklahoma after 1875, Andele Within the 1880s sought to reclaim his former life and returned to his circle of relatives in Las Vegas. But in 1889, feeling “his interests were all identified with the Kiowa, and that he had learned to love them,” he returned to the reservation, taught industrial arts on the agency school, and aided the Kiowa in defense in their lands. Within the 1890s Andele started serving as a resource to a generation of anthropologists studying Kiowa and Apache society. His captivity narrative, published in 1899 by the Methodist missionary J. J. Methvin, is a useful eyewitness description of Plains Indians. It’s reissued with an introduction by ethnohistorian James F. Brooks of the University of Maryland.

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Arts and Photography » History and Criticism » History » Americas » United States » South » Andele, The Mexican-Kiowa Captive: A Story of Real Life Among the Indians

Recent Products