Chiricahua Apache enduring power : Naiche's puberty ceremony paintings - Griffin-Pierce, Trudy, 1949-2009. (Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2006)
Ethnographic and historic background of the Chiricahua Apaches -- Military conquest as a physical, psychological, and symbolic event -- Exile and the construction of cultural identity -- Pratt and the Carlisle Boarding School -- The art of American Indian prisoners of war -- The Chiricahua Apache girl's puberty ceremony and Naiche's hide paintings.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-182) and index.
Keywords: Naiche, -- approximately 1857-1921.; Chiricahua Indians -- Biography; Chiricahua Indians -- Social life and customs; Chiricahua Indians -- Government relations; Indian art -- Southwest, New; Puberty rites -- Southwest, New