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A majority of ethnographer Morris Edward Opler's research was done on Native American groups of the American Southwest. He studied specifically the Chiricahua Indians, who were the subjects of one of his most famous books, An Apache Life-Way: The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians. Opler studied many Native American groups, but the Apache were a main focus of his.
An Apache Life-Way traces the life of an Apache...
44) Geronimo
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A biography of the famous Apache warrior who fought for the right of Native Americans to live and roam freely on their homeland.
45) Walks Alone
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After a surprise attack leaves many of her people dead, fifteen-year-old Walks Alone, an Apache girl wounded in the massacre, struggles to survive and rejoin the refugee band.
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A gang of gold-hungry cowboys slaughter a small band of Apaches. During the massacre an Indian woman promises to lead them to a hidden gold mine if they will spare her life. As they journey to the mine, they are pursued by the only surviving Apache warrior. They soon discover that Apache revenge is painful, slow and fatal.
47) Runs With Horses
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Sixteen years old in 1886, Runs With Horses trains to become a warrior with Geronimo's band of Apaches in the American Southwest.
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Presents an account of the massacre of 150 inhabitants of an Apache camp in Arizona by a posse of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O'odham Native Americans in 1871, describing the histories and motivations of each group involved and presenting the West as an extension of the Mexican north and home to various Native communities.
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Winner of a National Council on Public History Book AwardOn April 30, 1871, an unlikely group of Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O’odham Indians massacred more than a hundred Apache men, women, and children who had surrendered to the U.S. Army at Camp Grant, near Tucson, Arizona. Thirty or more Apache children were stolen and either kept in Tucson homes or sold into slavery in Mexico. Planned and perpetrated by some of the most prominent...
53) Dead man's walk
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Follows the adventures of Texas Rangers Gus and Call as they join an expedition to seize the Mexican territory of Santa Fe and journey home across the Jornada Del Muerto.
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After his son was kidnapped by Apaches, rancher John Ward reported blame for the incident on a band of Chiricahuas led by Cochise. Lt. George Bascom's subsequent meeting with the Apache leader ignited a Southwestern frontier war between the Chiricahuas and the US Army that would last twenty-five years.
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"The name 'Geronimo' came to Corine Sombrun insistently in a trance during her apprenticeship to a Mongolian shaman. That message and the need to understand its meaning brought her to the home of the legendary Apache leader's great-grandson, Harlyn Geronimo, a medicine man like his forebear, on the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico. Together, the two of them--the French seeker and the Native American healer--would make a pilgrimage that retraced...
60) Galloway
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Flagon and Galloway Sackett were just looking for a place to start ranching. They found a big, wide, lonely country and, at first, plenty of room. Then Bull Dunn and his two sons decided they wanted it all. When the battle for possession of the land began, Flagon was already in bad shape. He had been taken by Apache Indians, and by the time he escaped, just surviving left him in no condition for any kind of trouble. Bull Dunn's son, Curly, was determined...
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