Andele, the Mexican-Kiowa captive

by Methvin, J. J.

, Andele, or, The Mexican-Kiowa captive

Additional authors: Intro. -- Brooks, James F.

Edition statement:1st University of New Mexico Press paperbound ed. / Published by : University of New Mexico Press, (Albuquerque ) Physical details: vi, 133 p. ill, maps ; 23 cm. ISBN:0826317480 (pbk.).

Subject(s): Andele, -- 1855-ca. 1935 -- Captivity, 1866. | Kiowa Indians -- History. | Indian captivities -- Texas.

Year: 1996

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Originally published: Andele, or, The Mexican-Kiowa captive. Louisville, Ky. : Pentecostal Herald Press, 1899.

Introduction to Andele --
Ch. I. The Martinez Family --
Ch. II. The Mescaleros Capture Andres --
Ch. III. A Vain Pursuit --
Ch. IV. The Flight. Little Pedro's Death --
Ch. V. Andres' Sufferings. Resolves to Die. Engages in a Deadly Conflict with the Apache Boys. Is Rescued by the Kiowas --
Ch. VI. Sold to the Kiowas. Becomes the Adopted Son of the Chief, Heap O'Bears --
Ch. VII. Kiowas Reach Home. The Big Medicine Dance --
Ch. VIII. The Quo-dle-quoit. Andele has a Fight. The Scalp Dance --
Ch. IX. Heap O'Bears is Killed by the Utes and Scalped. Somtotleti Dies with Him --
Ch. X. Mourning for Heap O'Bears. Horrible Sight --
Ch. XI. War with the U.S. Soldiers. Cheyennes Surprised in a Scalp Dance --
Ch. XII. Scalping the Utes. A Grim Joke --
Ch. XIII. Foot Fight. The Indian Worship. The Sweat Booth. Buffalo Medicine Song --
Ch. XIV. Marauding Expedition into Texas. Massacre on the Washita --
Ch. XV. Tahan, the Captive Texan --
Ch. XVI. Indian Census by Capt. R.H. Pratt.

Ch. XVII. Startling Incidents. Rescue of Captives --
Ch. XVIII. Andele Disgusted with Indian Medicine --
Ch. XIX. Andele Marries --
Has Trouble --
Ch. XX. Dog Soldiers --
Ch. XXI. Light Dawning --
Ch. XXII. Geos Home to New Mexico. Returns after Four Years. Converted and Joins the Methodist Church. God's Providence in it All --
Ch. XXIII. A Civilized Courtship and Christian Marriage.

Early in 1867 Kiowa chief Many Bears paid the Mescalero Apache one mule, two buffalo robes, and a red blanket to purchase ten-year-old José Andrés Martínez. Abducted near his home in Las Vegas, New Mexico, in October 1866, he became Many Bears's grandson, Andele. He quickly adapted to his new life, grew to manhood among the Kiowa, took part in Kiowa raiding parties when he turned sixteen, and three times married Kiowa women.

Confined to a reservation in Oklahoma after 1875, Andele in the 1880s sought to reclaim his former life and returned to his family in Las Vegas. But in 1889, feeling "his interests were all identified with the Kiowa, and that he had learned to love them," he returned to the reservation, taught industrial arts at the agency school, and aided the Kiowa in defense of their lands. In the 1890s Andele began serving as a resource to a generation of anthropologists studying Kiowa and Apache society. His captivity narrative, published in 1899 by the Methodist missionary J. J. Methvin, is an invaluable eyewitness description of Plains Indians. It is reissued with an introduction by ethnohistorian James F. Brooks of the University of Maryland.

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