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The Apache diaspora : four centuries of displacement and survival / Paul Conrad.

By: Series: America in the nineteenth century | KPL social justice collectionPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 366 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0812253019
  • 9780812253016
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 979.004/9725 23
LOC classification:
  • E99 .A6 C595 2021
Contents:
Becoming Apache in Colonial North America -- The palace -- The mining district -- "Some place to live in safety" -- Apaches, nations, and empires -- Family, household, gotah -- Island/prison -- The elusive reservation -- The displacement of confinement -- The barracks and the school -- Strange places contrary to their natural homelands.
Summary: "Summary: The history of the Apache diaspora is laid out in this book in eight roughly chronological chapters. Each chapter also possesses a thematic focus on a key location to which Apaches were displaced over time: palaces, prisons, schools. The first part of the book begins by tracing precolonial histories of captivity and migration before examining the formation of Apache diasporas in the context of Spanish, Comanche, and French colonialism. Part II explores the role that empires and nation-states played in the history of Apache diasporas in the centuries to come"-- Provided by publisher.

"Published in Cooperation with the William P.Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University"-- title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Becoming Apache in Colonial North America -- The palace -- The mining district -- "Some place to live in safety" -- Apaches, nations, and empires -- Family, household, gotah -- Island/prison -- The elusive reservation -- The displacement of confinement -- The barracks and the school -- Strange places contrary to their natural homelands.

"Summary: The history of the Apache diaspora is laid out in this book in eight roughly chronological chapters. Each chapter also possesses a thematic focus on a key location to which Apaches were displaced over time: palaces, prisons, schools. The first part of the book begins by tracing precolonial histories of captivity and migration before examining the formation of Apache diasporas in the context of Spanish, Comanche, and French colonialism. Part II explores the role that empires and nation-states played in the history of Apache diasporas in the centuries to come"-- Provided by publisher.

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