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Table of Contents List of Figures ix Timeline of Chiricahua Imprisonment xi Prologue: Life before Naiche and the Chiricahua Apache Prisoners of War xiii Foreword: A Bronze Ga’an Speaks J. Jefferson Reid and Stephanie M. Whittlesey xvii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Ethnographic and Historic Background of the Chiricahua Apaches 11 Chapter 2: Military Conquest as a Physical, Psychological, and Symbolic Event 46 Chapter 3: Exile and the Construction of Cultural Identity 71 Chapter 4: Pratt and the Carlisle Boarding School 87 Chapter 5: The Art of American Indian Prisoners of War 107 Chapter 6: The Chiricahua Apache Girl’s Puberty Ceremony and Naiche’s Hide Paintings 133 Epilogue: Life after Naiche 169 References 171 Index 183 ...

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