Description
From 1886 to 1913, hundreds of Chiricahua Apache men, women, and children lived and died as prisoners of war in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. Their names, faces, and lives have long been forgotten by history, and for nearly one hundred years these individuals have been nothing more than statistics in the history of the United States' tumultuous war against the Chiricahua Apache.
Based on extensive archival research, From Fort Marion to Fort Sill offers long-overdue documentation of the lives and fate of many of these people. This outstanding reference work provides individual biographies for hundreds of the Chiricahua Apache prisoners of war, including those originally classified as POWs in 1886, infants who lived only a few days, children removed from families and sent to Indian boarding schools, and second-generation POWs who lived well into the twenty-first century. Their biographies are often poignant and revealing, and more than 60 previously unpublished photographs give a further glimpse of their humanity.
This masterful documentary work, based on the unpublished research notes of former Fort Sill historian Gillett Griswold, at last brings to light the lives and experiences of hundreds of Chiricahua Apaches whose story has gone untold for too long.
Author: Alicia Delgadillo
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 06/01/2013
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9780803243798
ISBN10: 0803243790
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies
- History | United States | State & Local | Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
About the Author
Alicia Delgadillo is a former senior program coordinator of the Native American Research and Training Center at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Miriam A. Perrett is a former systems librarian at the University of Wales, Lampeter (now the University of Wales Trinity Saint David).