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The resource holding corporation among the Mescalero Apachearticle 1967 • Basehart, Harry W.
Mescalero Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article, based on memory ethnography and historical documents, presents the argument that the Mescalero in the 1850s may be conceptualized as a 'resource holding corporation.' According to Basehart, access to resources within the Mescalero terri...Mescalero Apache band organization and leadershiparticle 1970 • Basehart, Harry W.
Mescalero Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source is an historical reconstruction of Mescalero band organization and leadership during the mid-nineteenth century. The author's orientation is functional and he concludes that 'The institution of leadership preserved the options of the indi...Mescalero Apache subsistence patterns and socio-political organizationessay 1974 • Basehart, Harry W. & United States. Indian Claims Commission
Mescalero Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source is a careful reconstruction of the relationships among the environment, subsistence patterns and social organization of the Mescalero Apache. Detailed data are provided on flora, fauna and mineral deposits; named places are listed, descri...Shamanism and peyote use among the Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservationessay 1973 • Boyer, L. Bryce et al.
Mescalero Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
Boyer et al. examine peyote use among the Apache of the Mescalero Reservation, and more specifically attempt to explain why its use, as well as the shamanistic use of hallucinogens, has been abandoned. They conclude that the ascribed 'evil' nature of...