By William Chebahtah, Nancy McGown Minor
ISBN-10: 0803210973
ISBN-13: 9780803210974
ISBN-10: 0803216203
ISBN-13: 9780803216204
This is the oral heritage of the Apache warrior Chevato, who captured eleven-year-old Herman Lehmann from his Texas home in may possibly 1870. Lehmann referred to as him “Bill Chiwat” and observed him as either his captor and his pal. Chevato presents a local American viewpoint on either the Apache and Comanche seize of kids and specifics in regards to the captivity of Lehmann recognized in simple terms to the Apache individuals. but the trap of Lehmann used to be just one episode in Chevato’s life. Born in Mexico, Chevato used to be a Lipan Apache whose mom and dad have been killed in a bloodbath by way of Mexican troops. He and his siblings fled around the Rio Grande and have been taken in via the Mescalero Apaches of recent Mexico. Chevato grew to become a shaman and used to be chargeable for introducing the Lipan type of the peyote ritual to either the Mescalero Apaches and later to the Comanches and the Kiowas. He went directly to turn into one of many founders of the local American Church in Oklahoma. The tale of Chevato finds vital information concerning Lipan Apache shamanism and the foundation and unfold of the kind of peyote rituals practiced at the present time within the local American neighborhood. This booklet additionally offers an extraordinary glimpse into Lipan and Mescalero Apache lifestyles within the overdue 19th century, whilst the Lipans confronted annihilation and the Mescaleros confronted the reservation. (20080901)
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The leader was the old man [Chevato’s father]. They started for the hills with the horses and the old man, the father, went very slowly; he didn’t act frightened. The Lipan went on for a number of days. Finally, they stopped at an open place before they reached the mountains. The old man put a little cloth over a bush and made a shade. Cardinal Rodriguez was a young man, about thirty at the time. He told the old man, “Old man, let’s go on to the rough country; let’s go a little farther toward the mountains.
If these bands can be brought within our territory and established upon reservations or reunited with the main body of the tribes from which they separated, it will contribute more than any other measure to the relief of the western frontier of this State, and it will remove the cover under which marauding Mexicans cross the Rio Grande and commit depredations upon the property of the people of this State. 7 In spite of Canby’s assurance, the Mexican government stalled, eventually declining to sign a treaty with the United States regarding the Co part 1 ahuila Indians.
R. L. Canby, Fifth Military District of Texas, complained: The most serious difficulty that is encountered in this District is protecting the inhabitants from Indian depredations occasioned by the Kickapoo t h e m as s ac r e at za r ag o s a Indians at Santa Rosa, Mexico, a short distance west of the Rio Grande. They usually cross that river in several parties, penetrate the settlements without being discovered, and escape with their plunder into Mexico. Their depredations are generally confined to stealing horses and killing cattle for their own subsistence while in the Country but occasionally a murder is committed or a captive carried away.
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