Playing Cards of the Apaches: A Study in Cultural Adaptation

by Harold Wayland, Virginia Wayland, Alan Ferg

With the arrivalof Europeansin the New World came packs of paper playing cards. In northern New Spain, on the frontier that would become the "Southern Four Corners" of Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, and Chihuahua, Spaniards introduced cards to the Indians they met. Chiricahua and Western Apaches quickly adopted playing cards into their cultures and made them their own, inventing new games and new tales of how they learned of cards from the culture hero...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0978774604
• ISBN13: 9780978774608
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Screenfold Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.