The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History, 1846-1970 [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Veronica Velarde Tiller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1983

" It is unusual to find a history of a tribe that provides an evenhanded account of the relations between the Indian people and the United States federal government. Veronica Tiller' s history of the Jicarilla Apaches is such a book. It lives up to the expectations for a good history, as well as to the promise of what an Indian author can do with the history of her own tribe." -- Western Historical Quarterly

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Originally published in 1983, this revised edition updates the account of the Jicarilla experience, documenting the significant economic, political, and cultural changes that have occurred as the tribe has exercised ever greater autonomy in recent years. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 309 pages
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; Revised edition (February 1, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803244096
• ISBN-13: 978-0803244092
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #810,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Veronica E. Tiller is a Jicarilla Apache writer of Native American history, and editor and publisher of the award-winning economic reference guide covering 362 modern Indian tribes: Tiller's Guide to Indian Country. Her forthcoming book Culture and Customs of Apache Indians will be available in January 2010 from ABC-CLIO. She has started a blog writingnative.blogspot.com. She is CEO for Tiller Research, Inc., in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Best History Yet of the Jicarilla Apache, November 26, 2007

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This review is from: The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History (Paperback)

This is the best history yet of the Jicarilla Apache, an interesting people who once were the scourge of the Santa Fe Trail. This was quite an accomplishment considering the tribe numbered less than 800 members. The book is easy to read and covers their history from earliest known times up to the present. The tribe's power was broken in the 1850s by Kit Carson. The next 30 years were occupied in finding the tribe a reservation as they wandered and were sent from place to place in search of some place they'd be allowed to stay. Shuffled off to wasteland the tribe has time and again turned up wealth first in timbers, then cattle, then oil, gas and uranium leases and almost as regularly up to the 1960s had the wealth stolen from them by unscroupulous Indian agents and government incompetence. The author is not always well documented presenting new evidence without a source and is clearly biased in favor of Ollero Jicarillas.