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Empowerment of North American Indian Girls is an examination of coming-of-age-ceremonies for American Indian girls past and present, featuring an in-depth look at Native ideas about human development and puberty. Many North American Indian cultures regard the transition from childhood to adulthood as a pivotal and potentially vulnerable phase of life and have accordingly devised coming-of-age rituals to affirm traditional values and community support for its members. Such rituals are a positive and enabling social force in many modern Native communities whose younger generations are wrestling

Puberty rites --- Indian girls --- Indians of North America --- Initiation rites --- Rites and ceremonies --- Sex customs --- Girls, Indian --- Girls --- Social life and customs. --- Customs --- United States

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A gripping story of the cultural resilience of the descendants of Geronimo and Cochise. This book reveals the conflicting meanings of power held by the federal government and the Chiricahua Apaches throughout their history of interaction. When Geronimo and Naiche, son of Cochise, surrendered in 1886, their wartime exploits came to an end, but their real battle for survival was only beginning. Throughout their captivity in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma, Naiche kept alive Chiricahua spiritual power by embodying it in his beautiful hide paint

Puberty rites --- Indian art --- Chiricahua Indians --- Initiation rites --- Rites and ceremonies --- Sex customs --- Bedonkohes Indians --- Chihennes Indians --- Chiricahua Apache Indians --- Chokonen Indians --- Nednis Indians --- Apache Indians --- Indians of North America --- Government relations. --- Social life and customs. --- Naiche, --- Christian Naiche, --- Nachez, --- Nahche, --- Nai-chi-ti, --- Natches, --- Natchez, --- Nei-chi-ci, --- Nei-chi-ri,