Apache History, Life & Values
(see also Native American History, Life & Values)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Arizona Forest Fires, Apaches. Charlie LeDuff, NY Times (6/27,02).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Merrill, William L. "Cultural creativity & raiding bands in 18th-c. northern New Spain," in Taylor & Pease (eds.) Violence, Resistance & Survival (Washington, 1994), pp. 124-52.
Moorehead, Max L. "Spanish deportation of hostile Apaches: the policy & the practice," Arizona & the West 17,3 (fall 75):205-20. Transportation as slaves to Central Mexico & Caribbean.
Park, Joseph F. "The Apaches in Mexican-American relations," in O. Martínez (ed.) US-Mexico Borderlands (Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources, 1996).
Velázquez, María del Carmen. "Los indios flecheros," Historia Mexicana 13,2 (1963):235-43.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Abdul-Jabar, Kareem & Stephen Singular. A Season on the Reservation: My Sojourn with the White Mountain Apache (NY: W. Morrow, 2000).
Ball, Eve. In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache (Tucson: U. of Arizona, 1970).
Barrett, S.M. (ed.) Geronimo: His Own Story (NY, 1970).
Basso, Keith H. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape & Language among the Western Apache (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1996).
Boyer, Ruth McDonald & Narcissus Duffy Gayton. Apache Mothers & Daughters: Four Generations of a Family (Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1992).
Cole, D.C. The Chiricahua Apache, 1846-1876: From War to Reservation (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1988).
Collins, Charles. An Apache Nightmare: The Battle at Cibecue Creek (Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1999).
Cremony, John Carey. Life Among the Apaches [1868] (NY: Indian Head, 1991).
Faulk, Odie B. The Geronimo Campaign: Geronimo's Last Campaign, 1885-86 (London, 1969).
Forbes, Jack D. Apache, Navajo & Spaniard (Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1960). Early interactions, 16th & 17th c.
Goodwin, Grenville. The Social Organization of the Western Apache (Tucson: U. of Arizona, 1969).
__________ & Neil Goodwin. The Apache Diaries: A Father-Son Journey (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 2002).
Griffen, William B. Utmost Good Faith: Patterns of Apache-Mexican Hostilities in Northern Chihuahua Border Warfare, 1821-1848 (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1989).
Gunnerson, Dolores A. The Jicarilla Apaches: A Study in Survival (DeKalb: Northern Illinois U., 1973).
Haley, James L. Apaches: A History & Cultural Portrait (Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1997).
Hatfield, Shelley Bowen. Chasing Shadows: Apaches & Yaquis along the US-Mexico Border, 1876-1911 (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1998). From 1882 to 1896, US & Mexican troops allowed to cross borders in "hot pursuit" of these native peoples, seeking common objective of their extirmination.
Lister, Florence C. & Robert H. Lister. Chihuahua: Storehouse of Storms (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1966).
Lloyd, Jane-Dale & Laura Pérez Rosales (eds.) Paisajes rebeldes: una larga noche de rebelión indígena (México: U. Iberoamericana, 1995).
Meinig, D.W. Southwest: Three Peoples in Geographical Change, 1600-1970 (NY, 1971).
Melody, Michael E. The Apaches (Bloomington: Indiana U., 1997). Historical bibliography.
Molina E., Arturo. La última danza apache (Chihuahua: Magnacolor, 1999).
Ove, Robert S. & H. Henrietta Stockel. Geronimo's Kids: A Teacher's Lessons on the Apache Reservation (College Station: Texas A&M, 1997).
Perry, Richard J. Western Apache Heritage: People of the Mountain Corridor (Austin: U. of Texas, 198?).
__________. Apache Reservation: Indigenous Peoples & the American State (Austin: U. of Texas, 1993).
Roberts, David. Once They Moved Like the Wind: Cochise, Geronimo & the Apache Wars (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1993).
Robinson, Sherry. Apache Voices: Their Stories of Survival as Told to Eve Ball (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 2000).
Simmons, Marc. Massacre on the Lordsburg Road: A Tragedy of the Apache Wars (College Station: Texas A&M, 1997).
Spicr, Edward H. Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico & the US on the Indians of the Southwest, 1553-1960 [1960] (7th ed.; Tucson: U. of Arizona, 1981).
Stockel, H. Henrietta. Survival of the Spirit: Chiricahua Apaches in Captivity (Reno: U. of Nevada, 1993).
__________. On the Bloody Road to Jesus: Christianity & the Chiricahua Apaches (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 2004).
Sweeney, Edwin R. Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief (Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1991).
__________. Mangas Coloradas: Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches (Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1998).
Thrapp, Dan L. The Conquest of Apachería (Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1967).
__________. Victorio & the Mimbres Apaches (Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1974).
Tiller, Veronica E. Velarde. The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 1992).
Worcester, Donald E. The Apaches: Eagles of the Southwest (Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1992).
Vizcaya Canales, Isidro. La invasión de los indios bárbaros al noreste de México en los años 1840-41 (Monterrey, 1968).
In the Library: Fiction
Hall, Oakley M. Apaches: A Novel (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1986).
May, Karl Friedrich. The Oil Prince [1877] (trans. Herbert Windolf; Pullman: Washington State U., 2003).
McCall, Dan. Messenger Bird (NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993).
Molina E., Arturo. Rencor apache, sangre chiricahua (Chihuahua: Profesionales, 1991). Joaquín Terrazas & Mexico's Apache War.
Plumlee, Harry James. Shadow of the Wolf: An Apache Tale (Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1997). Apache perspective on encounters with Mexicans & Anglos, 1850s-1880s.
Schlesier, Karl H. Josanie's War: A Chiricahua Apache Novel (Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1998).
In the Library: For Young Readers
Holmas, Stig. The People of the Rising Sun (Barnstaple, Devon: Spindlewood, 1996).
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Dancing on the Edge" [200?], dir. Miguel Najera, 43m. Jicarilla native policemen in surprising interaction with White mercenary organization Soldiers of Fortune.
"The Missing" [2003], dir. Ron Howard, 137m. In video stores. Western set in 19th-c. New Mexico, made with Apache informants, with a more multifaceted portrayal of Apache culture than most.
"Wild Justice" [2005?]. Documentary about 20th c. Chiricahua Apache survivors of genocide, made largely by Apaches working with producer Daniel Ostroff. In production in Spring 2004.