Andele, The Mexican-Kiowa Captive: A Story of Real Life Among the Indians / Edition 1

by J. J. Methvin

Overview

Early in 1867 Kiowa chief Many Bears paid the Mescalero Apache one mule, two buffalo robes, and a red blanket to purchase ten-year-old José Andrés Martínez. Abducted near his home in Las Vegas, New Mexico, in October 1866, he became Many Bears's grandson, Andele. He quickly adapted to his new life, grew to manhood among the Kiowa, took part in Kiowa raiding parties when he turned sixteen, and three times married Kiowa women.

Confined to a reservation in Oklahoma after 1875, Andele in the 1880s sought to reclaim his former life and returned to his family in Las Vegas. But in 1889, feeling "his interests were all identified with the Kiowa, and that he had learned to love them," he returned to the reservation, taught industrial arts at the agency school, and aided the Kiowa in defense of their lands. In the 1890s Andele began serving as a resource to a generation of anthropologists studying Kiowa and Apache society. His captivity narrative, published in 1899 by the Methodist missionary J. J. Methvin, is an invaluable eyewitness description of Plains Indians. It is reissued with an introduction by ethnohistorian James F. Brooks of the University of Maryland.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826317483
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	08/01/1996
Edition description:	1st University of New Mexico Press paper
Pages:	139
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

James F. Brooks is a member of the research faculty and director of SAR Press at the School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Editorial Reviews

a. . . provides an invaluable eyewitness description of the twilight years of Kiowa life on the Plains and early reservation life.a

a. . . the book serves as both a compelling narrative and literary text, revealing the cultural values of Kiowas, Mexican Americans, and Protestant missionaries. . . . From this fascinating account, it seems that Andele was captured in more than one way by the Indians.a

a"Andele, the Mexican-Kiowa Captive" . . . provides some important insight into the Kiowa side of the Red River War of 1874. . . . this book is recommended.a

." . . the book serves as both a compelling narrative and literary text, revealing the cultural values of Kiowas, Mexican Americans, and Protestant missionaries. . . . From this fascinating account, it seems that Andele was captured in more than one way by the Indians."

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