Apache voices : their stories of survival as told to Eve Ball / Sherry Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Sherry.

Contributor:

Ball, Eve.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apache Indians--History.

Apache Indians.

History.

Apache Indians--Interviews.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xv, 272 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2000]

Summary:

In the 1940s and 1950s, long before historians fully accepted oral tradition as a source, Eve Ball was taking down the verbatim accounts of Apache elders who had survived the army's campaigns against them in the nineteenth 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.

A high school and college teacher, Ball moved to Ruidoso, New Mexico, in 1942. Her house on the edge of the Mescalero Apache Reservation was a stopping-off place for Apaches on the dusty walk into town. She quickly realized she was talking to the sons and daughters of Geronimo, Cochise, Victorio, and their warriors. After winning their confidence, Ball would ultimately interview sixty-seven people.

Here is the Apache side of the story as told to Eve Ball. Including accounts of Victorio's sister Lozen, a warrior and medicine woman who was the only unmarried woman allowed to ride with the men, as well as unflattering portrayals of Geronimo's actions while under attack, and Mescalero scorn for the horse thief Billy the Kid, this volume represents a significant new source on Apache history and life-ways.

Sherry Robinson went through seventeen unsorted boxes of Eve Ball's papers left at Brigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library, realizing that Ball had not used all her transcripts in her published books. She also found that the generous, energetic, and strong-willed Eve Ball was as fascinating as her subjects, and she provides glimpses into Ball's relationships with fellow Apache scholars Angie Debo and Dan Thrapp.

Contents:

Lozen

Tres castillos

Captives

Geronimo and the Arroyo fight

Streeter

Geronimo's surrender

Geronimo and Naiche

The impostors

Eskiminzin

The Apache Kid

Massai

Gordo and Juh

Gold and treasure

Cadette

Bosque redondo

The Mescalero Reservation

The Apaches and Comanches

Comanche stories

Victorio and the Mescaleros

The Battle of Round Mountain

Billy the Kid

The Apache general store

The Apache pharmacy

Medicine men and women

Weapons and warfare

Bear tales and other animal stories

Eve Ball.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index.

ISBN:

0826321623

OCLC:

42923491