{"product_id":"stories-from-saddle-mountain-autobiographies-of-a-kiowa-family-9781496228116","title":"Stories from Saddle Mountain: Autobiographies of a Kiowa Family","description":"2023 \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eStories from Saddle Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e recounts family stories that connected the Tongkeamhas, a Kiowa family, to the Saddle Mountain community for more than a century. Henrietta Apayyat (1912-93) grew up and married near Saddle Mountain, where she and her husband raised five sons and five daughters. She began penning her memoirs in 1968, including accounts about a Peyote meeting, revivals and Christmas encampments at Saddle Mountain Church, subsistence activities, and attending boarding schools and public schools. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When not in school, Henrietta spent much of her childhood and adolescence close to home, working and occasionally traveling to neighboring towns with her grandparents, whereas her son Raymond Tongkeamha left frequently and wandered farther. Both experienced the transformation from having no indoor plumbing or electricity to having radios, televisions, and JCPenney. Together, their autobiographies illuminate dynamic changes and steadfast traditions in twentieth-century Kiowa life in the Saddle Mountain countryside.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenrietta Tongkeamha\u003c\/b\u003e (1912-93) lived and documented her experiences raising a family in southwestern Oklahoma. \u003cb\u003eRaymond Tongkeamha\u003c\/b\u003e left home in the 1960s and encountered the world beyond southwestern Oklahoma through military service and jobs in Oklahoma City, Dallas, and elsewhere before returning to the homestead. \u003cb\u003eBenjamin R. Kracht\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of anthropology at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eReligious Revitalization among the Kiowas: The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2018), among other books.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50554104611090,"sku":"9781496228116","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8659ff09-8a61-46a5-832d-03e7d0490371.jpg?v=1731707696","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stories-from-saddle-mountain-autobiographies-of-a-kiowa-family-9781496228116","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}