By William C. Meadows
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For many Plains Indians, being a warrior and veteran has lengthy been the normal pathway to male honor and standing. males and boys shaped army societies to have fun victories in battle, to accomplish neighborhood provider, and to arrange younger males for his or her function as warriors and hunters. via retaining cultural kinds contained in music, dance, ritual, language, kinship, economics, naming, and different semireligious ceremonies, those societies have performed a major position in keeping Plains Indian tradition from the pre-reservation period until eventually today.
In this publication, Williams C. Meadows offers an in-depth ethnohistorical survey of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche army societies, drawn from large interviews with tribal elders and army society contributors, unpublished archival resources, and linguistic information. He examines their constitution, features, rituals, and martial symbols, displaying how they healthy inside higher tribal agencies. And he explores how army societies, like powwows, became a unique public structure for cultural and ethnic continuity.
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