User talk:Tkavanag

I have been working with Numunuu people since about 1970. About 1972, after the Tuepukunuu (Little Ponies) were re-restablished, and I joined as an associate (non-Indian) member, I was asked by several elders, JA, HN, E(N)M, if I could find any more documentary mentions of the Little Pony and/or Numunee History. That search resulted in my PhD Dissertation (1986) and its resulting publication, _Comanche Political History_ [1996] (re-issued as _The Comanches: A History_ [1999]), both from the University of Nebraska press.

That search also led me to the field notes of some early anthropological researchers among the Comanches, notably Robert Lowie (1912), and the 1933 Ethnographic Field Party out of Santa Fe. The original notes from those sources have been edited for clarity, as well as subject indexed, and will be published shortly by the University of Nebraska Press.

That search also led me to identify a manuscript/typscript deposited at the National Anthropological Archives of the Smithsonian Institution (NAA), but not accessioned, composed by Francis Joseph Attocknie based on oral histories collected by him, 1930-1968. That text has been offered to publishers, but no word has yet been received.

=== Parallel thread: I have recently edited the N-SSA [North-South Smirmish Association] page. This is a bunch of crazies who like to shoot Civil War vintage firearms, as well as to hang out, drink beer, and sing. I have been with them since the 1960s, first with the Washington Blue Rifles, then, since 1972, with Wheat's First Special Battalion, Louisiana Volunteers, Tiger Rifles.

Why them? 'Cause when I pulled into the parking lot at the Capron shoot down in Southern Virginia, there were two of them on Martin guitars, one on a Gibson gold rim banjo, and one on a wash tub bass, and none of the WBR guys in sight. Whatcha gonna do? Go with the wash tub, of course.

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