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Daklugie, following closely in the beliefs of Geronimo believed in God the Apache called Ussen, who was the "Creator of Life." It has been recorded that Ussen gave Geronimo courage and visions about what were to happen in the future. [3] Daklugie traveled all around the States after the death of his father.
Largely self-taught as an anthropologist, he lived among the Apache for nearly a decade, and learned their stories and rituals. His monograph The Social Organization of the Western Apache was considered a major contribution to American ethnology. It was published in 1941 after his death at age 32, when his promising career was cut short.
The dying man readied his body and soul for death and waited. There were four general characteristics: first, the dying person would usually be lying in bed, or at least in a recumbent position. In the Christian tradition the dying person would lie on his or her back, facing the heavens. Second, the dying person in this period always presided ...
He studied specifically the Chiricahua Indians, who were the subjects of his two most famous books, An Apache Life-Way and Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians. Apache Warriors An Apache Life-Way: The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians [ 12 ] was one of Opler's most famous publications.
Apache Indian girl carrying an olla (a water basket) on her head, c. 1900. Apache men practiced varying degrees of "avoidance" of his wife's close relatives, a practice often most strictly observed by distance between mother-in-law and son-in-law. The degree of avoidance differed by Apache group.
For example, one aspect of Hinduism involves belief in a continuing cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth and the liberation from the cycle . Eternal return is a non-religious concept proposing an infinitely recurring cyclic universe, which relates to the subject of the afterlife and the nature of consciousness and time.
A taboo against naming the dead is a kind of word taboo whereby the name of a recently deceased person, and any other words similar to it in sound, may not be uttered. It is observed by peoples in many parts of the world, including the indigenous peoples of northern Australia, [1] Siberia, Southern India, the Sahara, Subsaharan Africa, and the Americas.
The Chiricahua Apache, also written as Chiricagui, Apaches de Chiricahui, Chiricahues, Chilicague, Chilecagez, and Chiricagua, were given that name by the Spanish.The White Mountain Coyotero Apache, including the Cibecue and Bylas groups of the Western Apache, referred to the Chiricahua by the name Ha'i’ą́há, while the San Carlos Apache called them Hák'ą́yé which means ″Eastern ...