Life Among the Texas Indians: The WPA Narratives

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Texas A&M University Press, 1998 - 270 pages
 

Contents

Chapter One Raids and Warfare
49
Chapter Two Southern Plains Cultures
76
A Spiritual life
120
Education and Health
148
Life on the Reservation
177
Old Ways New Ways
212
Epilogue
231
Notes
235
Bibliography
253
Index
261
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Page 32 - There they may be secured in the enjoyment of governments of their own choice, subject to no other control from the United States than such as may be necessary to preserve peace on the frontier, and between the several tribes.
Page 32 - If I could build a wall from the Red River to the Rio Grande, so high that no Indian could scale it, the white people would go crazy trying to devise means to get beyond it.

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