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Folsom-Dickerson, W. E. S. The White Path
San Antonio, TX Naylor Co. 1965 Hardcover Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
Gift inscription on front free-end page: "John C. Robertson from Mother and Dad, Christmas 1965, In commemoration of a summer spent on the Reservation." Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket rather tattered: chips, small tears, and rubbing at edges and corners. Slight rubbing to book edges and corners. Otherwise, the book is in very good condition, with minimal shelf wear and clean/unmarked pages. ; . ; B&W Illustrations; 8.6 x 6 x .8 inches; 148 pages; Through four centuries of conflicting forces, the Alabama-Koasati Indians have lived in peace with the white man. The question is WHY?! How are they able, today, to reconcile such contradictions as the practice of witchcraft with modern medicine-ritualistic dances with Calvinistic religion-inherited Indian mores with environmental American customs? Traveling the white path of peace the Alabama-Koasati are unique. They are the only Indians living as a nation within the borders of Texas. Theirs is the only tribe that hasn't been exiled to an unfamiliar reservation. Why did the Alabama-Koasati get along with all comers - the Spanish, the French, the Mexicans? Why did they escape the wrathful hatred of hot-headed Texas settlers? Why were they-and only they, of all Indians in Texas-permitted to live until this very day by their own laws on their own ancestral lands? To find the answers to these questions the author went to live among the Alabama-Koasati in their wooded homeland in deep East Texas. Being one-fourth Indian himself, he was able to gain their confidence and to explore their past. The things he learned from them about their reconciliation of the red man's beliefs with the white man's ideas make this a unique Indian book. Laced with quiet humor and illustrated with interesting anecdotes, THE WHITE PATH, is not a somber book. Young people will enjoy it because it's not the too familiar tomahawk, warpath, scalping routine. The mature reader will enjoy it for its professional approach to anthropological research in an area where too little scholarly work has been done. Bibliography: p. 148.
Price:
24.89 USD
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