In 1933, famed anthropologist Morris Opler met a Mescalero Apache
he called Chris and worked with him to record the man's life story,
from the bloody Apache Wars into the reservation years of the
mid-twentieth century. Chris's vivid recollections are enriched at
strategic moments with crucial background information on Apache
history and culture, supplied by Opler.
Chris was born around 1880, the son of a Chiricahua man and a
Mescalero woman. At the age of six, he and his family and other
Chiricahua Apaches became prisoners of war and were relocated by
the U.S. government to Florida and Alabama. Eventually settling on
the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico, Chris grew up
expecting to become a shaman like his parents. Although Chris
apprenticed as a shaman, his confidence in his healing ability
waned after he was forced at the age of seventeen to attend federal
government schools. Nonetheless, his interest in Mescalero
religion, healing, and other traditional customs and beliefs
remained, and that intimate knowledge of his people's world
underscores and deepens the story of his own life.
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