| Stories from Saddle Mountain: Autobiographies of a Kiowa Family Contributor(s): Tongkeamha, Henrietta (Author), Tongkeamha, Raymond (Author), Kracht, Benjamin R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1496228111 ISBN-13: 9781496228116 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - History | Native American - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2021001172 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.91 lbs) 222 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Stories from Saddle Mountain recounts family stories that connected the Tongkeamhas, a Kiowa family, to the Saddle Mountain community for more than a century. Henrietta Apayyat (1912-93) grew up and married near Saddle Mountain, where she and her husband raised five sons and five daughters. She began penning her memoirs in 1968, including accounts about a Peyote meeting, revivals and Christmas encampments at Saddle Mountain Church, subsistence activities, and attending boarding schools and public schools. When not in school, Henrietta spent much of her childhood and adolescence close to home, working and occasionally traveling to neighboring towns with her grandparents, whereas her son Raymond Tongkeamha left frequently and wandered farther. Both experienced the transformation from having no indoor plumbing or electricity to having radios, televisions, and JCPenney. Together, their autobiographies illuminate dynamic changes and steadfast traditions in twentieth-century Kiowa life in the Saddle Mountain countryside. |