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Author Colwell, Chip (John Stephen), 1975-

Title Massacre at Camp Grant : forgetting and remembering Apache history / Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 159 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Phantom History -- Traditional History -- Collective Histories -- The Historical Imagination -- History, Memory, Justice
Summary "On April 30, 1871, an unlikely group of Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O'odham Indians massacred more than a hundred Apache men, women, and children who had surrendered to the U.S. Army at Camp Grant, near Tucson, Arizona. Thirty or more Apache children were stolen and either kept in Tucson homes or sold into slavery in Mexico. Planned and perpetrated by some of the most prominent men in Arizona's territorial era, this organized slaughter has become a kind of "phantom history" lurking beneath the Southwest s official history, strangely present and absent at the same time. Seeking to uncover the mislaid past, this book begins by listening to those voices in the historical record that have long been silenced and disregarded." "Massacre at Camp Grant fashions a multivocal narrative, interweaving the documentary record, Apache narratives, historical texts, and ethnographic research to provide new insights into the atrocity. Thus drawing from a range of sources, it demonstrates the ways in which painful histories continue to live on in the collective memories of the communities in which they occurred. Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh begins with the premise that every account of the past is suffused with cultural, historical, and political characteristics. By paying attention to all of these aspects of a contested event, he provides a nuanced interpretation of the cultural forces behind the massacre, illuminates how history becomes an instrument of politics, and contemplates why we must study events we might prefer to forget."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-149) and index
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Subject Camp Grant Massacre, Ariz., 1871.
Apache Indians -- Wars.
Apache Indians -- History -- 19th century
Massacres -- Arizona -- Aravaipa Canyon
Indians of North America -- Crimes against -- Arizona -- Aravaipa Canyon
Indians, Treatment of -- Arizona -- Aravaipa Canyon
HISTORY -- General.
Apache Indians
Apache Indians -- Wars
Indians of North America -- Crimes against
Indians, Treatment of
Massacres
SUBJECT Aravaipa Canyon (Ariz.) -- History
Subject Arizona
Arizona -- Aravaipa Canyon
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006032952
ISBN 9780816532650
0816532656