{"product_id":"the-handgame-of-the-kiowa-comanche-and-apache-spirited-competition-on-the-southern-plains-9781648432958","title":"The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache: Spirited Competition on the Southern Plains","description":"\u003cp\u003e The North American handgame has a long lineage, attested in the myth, oral traditions, and archaeological records of Native American people. In \u003ci\u003eThe Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eSpirited Competition on the Southern Plains, \u003c\/i\u003e noted scholar William C. Meadows examines the game's history, evolution, and practice from origin accounts to the present day among people of the Southern Plains American Indian nations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e According to Meadows, the handgame, once primarily a source of winter recreation, now includes round-robin tournaments as well as public school and university teams. In fact, it has evolved to occupy an important social arena in Native American life. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and the author's own participation since the early 1990s, the book also incorporates extensive archival research in ethnographic, archaeological, and historical sources. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Examining such topics as the handgame's relation to language, gender roles, economics, and tribal sovereignty, Meadows argues that the game is just as important in tribal contexts as other more widely known activities such as powwows, dances, sweat lodges, and stickball in maintaining American Indian culture and ethnicity. \u003ci\u003eThe Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache\u003c\/i\u003e affords readers a greater sense of how this traditional game has developed, how its practitioners feel about it, how it is played, and why it is, in the words of the author, \"so spirited, popular, and infectious as an activity.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e WILLIAM C. MEADOWS is a professor of anthropology and Native American studies at Missouri State University in Springfield, MO, and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKiowa Ethnography\u003c\/i\u003e, and other books. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Texas A\u0026M University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51324596519186,"sku":"9781648432958","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e6882007-6b97-45f5-bb74-92c8cd055a0f.jpg?v=1748686627","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-handgame-of-the-kiowa-comanche-and-apache-spirited-competition-on-the-southern-plains-9781648432958","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}