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Apache Voices: Their Stories of Survival as Told to Eve Ball

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A very indepth point of view and objective look at Apache history from the people who actually participated or were directly involved in so many events of the late nineteenth century. Ms. Ball really gave Apache people a voice and it's so amazing that they as a people are still here and thriving to this day. Enjoyed the book immensely especially the end portions on the essentials of what onstituted Apache life ways.

"In the 1940's and 1950's. long before historians fully accepted oral tradition as a source, Eve Ball (1890-1984) worked to preserve the accounts of Apache elders who had survived the army's campaigns against them in the 19th century.

These oral histories offer new versions -- from Warm Springs, Chiricahua, Mescalero, and Lipan Apache -- of events previously known only through descriptions left by non-Indians, and represent a signficant new source on Apache history and lifeways.

In Apache Voices, author Robinson expands the Apache side of the story as told to Eve Ball through previously unpublished accounts culled from unsorted boxes of Ball's papers...."

Not terribly interesting. Unless one is interested in the Apache Nation specifically - probably will want to by-pass this one.