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The Comanche Sun Dance and Messianic Outbreak of 1873article 1941 • Hoebel, E. Adamson(Edward Adamson),1906-1993
Comanche • North America > Plains and Plateau
This brief article calls to the attention of anthropologists data on the Comanche Messianic Outbreak of 1873 contained in a book by R. N. Richardson. The outbreak was abortive and Hoebel feels this conditioned the Comanche against following the examp...Plains Indian law in developmentessay 1969 • Hoebel, E. Adamson (Edward Adamson),1906-1993
Comanche • North America > Plains and Plateau
This document is a brief description of Comanche legal customs regarding adultery and wife-stealing, murder, and sorcery. The document appears to be memory ethnography and is based on the collection of case histories (p. 71)....