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Hardcover Playing Cards of the Apaches: A Study in Cultural Adaptation Book

ISBN: 0978774604

ISBN13: 9780978774608

Playing Cards of the Apaches: A Study in Cultural Adaptation

With the arrivalof Europeansin the New World came packs of paper playing cards. In northern New Spain, on the frontier that would become the "Southern Four Corners" of Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, and Chihuahua, Spaniards introduced cards to the Indians they met. Chiricahua and Western Apaches quickly adopted playing cards into their cultures and made them their own, inventing new games and new tales of how they learned of cards from the culture hero...

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