The Apache: Fuego y Sangre
This is the first episode in a series over the Apache Indians. This episode covers the Apache’s possible origins in the American Southwest and their interactions with the Puebloans, the O’odham, the Navajo, and the Spanish as they fought sometimes with, but mostly against them. Ga’an or the Mountain Spirit Dancer, the Monster Slayer, Coyote, and other Apache stories are told as well as Fossil Legends, Oral Traditions, and more. Apache ways of life such as raiding, family customs, and how they saw and used the mountains is discussed. It’s an in depth look at everything from Apache warfare to torture to the Apache language itself.
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Selected Sources:
The Apache Indians by Frank C Lockwood
Once They Moved Like The Wind by David Roberts
The Bears Ears by David Roberts
The Navajo by Clyde Kluckhorhn & Dorothea Leighton
Fossil Legends of the First Americans by Adrienne Mayor
Frontiers: A Short History of the American West by Robert V Hine & John Mack Faragher
From Cochise to Geronimo: The Chiricahua Apaches 1874-1886 by Edwin R Sweeney
Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History by Karl Jacoby
Western Apache Language and Culture by Keith H Basso
The Indian Frontier of the American West 1846-1890 by Robert M Utley
A Portal to Paradise by Alden Hayes
The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History by Paul Andrew Hutton
Revisiting Montezuma Castle by Eric a Powell
Apache Legends and Lore of Southern New Mexico by Lynda A Sanchez
The Sacred Clown of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apaches by L. Bryce Boyer, Ruth M. Boyer
https://www.maskmuseum.org/apache-gaan-post/
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/250-1703/trenches/5293-trenches-arizona-hopi-montezuma-castle