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Author Herman, Daniel Justin, author.

Title Rim country exodus : a story of conquest, renewal, and race in the making / Daniel J. Herman
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 393 pages) : illustrations
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Kinship, History, Home -- pt. I Endings -- 2. Conquest -- 3. Exile -- 4. Rebellion -- 5. Honor in Chaos -- pt. II Beginnings -- 6. Exodus -- 7. Old Lives, New Lives -- 8. Indians and Agents -- 9. Indians and Settlers -- 10. Conquering Children -- 11. Taking Charge
Summary For thousands of years, humans have lived on the sprawling escarpment in Arizona known as the Mogollon Rim, a stretch that separates the valleys of central Arizona from the mountains of the north. A vast portion of this dramatic landscape is the traditional home of the Dilzhe'e (Tonto Apache) and the Yavapai. Now Daniel Herman offers a compelling narrative of how--from 1864 to 1934--the Dilzhe'e and the Yavapai came to central Arizona, how they were conquered, how they were exiled, how they returned to their homeland, and how, through these events, they found renewal. <br /><br />Herman examines the complex, contradictory, and very human relations between Indians, settlers, and Federal agents in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Arizona--a time that included Arizona's brutal Indian wars. But while most tribal histories stay within the borders of the reservation, Herman also chronicles how Indians who left the reservation helped build a modern state with dams, hydroelectricity, roads, and bridges. With thoughtful detail and incisive analysis, Herman discusses the complex web of interactions between Apache, Yavapai, and Anglos that surround every aspect of the story. <br /><br /> Rim Country Exodus is part of a new movement in Western history emphasizing survival rather than disappearance. Just as important, this is one of the first in-depth studies of the West that examines race as it was lived. Race was formulated, Herman argues, not only through colonial and scientific discourses, but also through day-to-day interactions between Indians, agents, and settlers. Rim Country Exodus offers an important new perspective on the making of the West
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Indian reservations -- Arizona -- History
Indians of North America -- Arizona -- Social conditions
Indians of North America -- Arizona -- Government relations
Indians of North America -- Arizona -- History
HISTORY -- General.
Indian reservations
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Government relations
Indians of North America -- Social conditions
Politics and government
Race relations
SUBJECT Arizona -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007190
Arizona -- Race relations
Arizona -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007184
Subject Arizona
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816533947
0816533946