Apaches: A History and Culture Portrait, James L. Haley’s dramatic saga of the Apaches’ doomed guerrilla war against the whites, was a radical departure from the method followed by previous histories of white-native conflict. Arguing that "you cannot understand the history unless you understand the culture," Haley first discusses the "life-way" of the Apaches - their mythology and folklore (including the famous Coyote series), religious customs, everyday life, and social mores. Haley then explores the tumultuous decades of trade and treaty and of betrayal and bloodshed that preceded the Apaches’ final military defeat in 1886. He emphasizes figures that played a decisive role in the conflict: Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, and Geronimo on the one hand, and Royal Whitman, George Crook, and John Clum on the other.
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James L. Haley is an independent scholar living in Austin, Texas. He is the author of numerous books, including The Buffalo War: The History of the Red River Indian Uprising of 1874 and Apaches: A History and Culture Portrait (OU Press).
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Having extended family who are Apache, I can say this is a worth while read. There are some things I would not agree with, they are minor, in general it is certainly a worth while book. I also like the preface in the book talking about revisionist history, it was well thought out and balanced. There is much to learn from the Apache people especially in our day and age, where we offten ask what we can get, instead of what we can give back.
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war novitiate, hostile rancheria, big tepee, moccasin game, concentration policy, puberty ceremony, reservation days, reservation period, white conquest, burden baskets, troop columns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Carlos, New Mexico, Western Apaches, Apache Indians, Child of the Water, Fort Apache, White-painted Woman, Camp Grant, National Archives, Owl-man Giant, White Mountains, Killer of Enemies, Conquest of Apacheria, General Crook, Rio Grande, Sierra Madre, Apache Life-way, Mangas Coloradas, Camp Apache, Ojo Caliente, Santa Rita, Tci-he-nde Mimbres, San Antonio, Britton Davis, Civil War New!
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war novitiate, hostile rancheria, big tepee, moccasin game, concentration policy, puberty ceremony, reservation days, reservation period, white conquest, burden baskets, troop columns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Carlos, New Mexico, Western Apaches, Apache Indians, Child of the Water, Fort Apache, White-painted Woman, Camp Grant, National Archives, Owl-man Giant, White Mountains, Killer of Enemies, Conquest of Apacheria, General Crook, Rio Grande, Sierra Madre, Apache Life-way, Mangas Coloradas, Camp Apache, Ojo Caliente, Santa Rita, Tci-he-nde Mimbres, San Antonio, Britton Davis, Civil War New!
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- The Conquest of Apacheria (Civilization of American Indian) by Dan L. Thrapp on 23 pages
- Myths and Tales of the White Mountain Apache by Grenville Goodwin on 13 pages
- Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians (Native American) by Edward Morris Opler on 10 pages
- Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians (American Folklore Society Memoirs Ser.) by Morris Edward Opler on 10 pages
- Life among the Apaches (Bison Books) by John C. Cremony on 7 pages
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- Santana: War Chief of the Mescalero Apache by Almer N. Blazer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Chiricahua Apache Women and Children: Safekeepers of the Heritage (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest) by Ms. H. Henrietta Stockel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Santana: War Chief of the Mescalero Apache by Almer N. Blazer on page 268, and Back Matter
- The Blue, the Gray and the Red, by Thom Hatch in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- North American Indian Music (Watts Library) by Rick Ench in Back Matter
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