"We are dealing here with a living literature," wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians.
They range from an account of.
The result is a definitive collection of their myths.
Opler conducted field work among the Chiricahuas in the American Southwest, as he had earlier among the Jicarillas.
First published in 1942 by the American Folk-Lore Society, this is another classic study by the author of Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians. "We are dealing here with a living literature," wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians