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University of Oklahoma Press, Published 1992. Hardcover, xx, 393 pp.; 24 cm; First Edition (with full number line); illustrated with black-and-white photographs, portraits and maps.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Rust cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Inscribed and signed on the front pastedown in blue ink: "December, 1993 / To: Fr. Tom / a dear friend, with gratitude and admiration, / Virginia Klinekole." Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket reproduces photographs of Apache women. A few small nicks and light bumping to edges, with mild shelf wear and light fading to the spine. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Four generations of Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache women, traced from Dilth-cleyhen, daughter of the chief Victorio, born about 1848, down to her great-great-granddaughter in 1990. Boyer, an anthropologist, worked for thirty-five years from the recollections of Narcissus Duffy Gayton, who is both co-author and the fourth generation. The narrative runs through Victorio's death, the twenty-seven-year Chiricahua imprisonment in Florida, Alabama and at Fort Sill, resettlement at Mescalero, the Silas John and Four Cross movement, boarding schools, and reservation life into the 1970s. Illustrated with family photographs, portraits and maps, including Apache villages and cultivated fields at Fort Sill adapted from Angie Debo's Geronimo. Virginia Shanta Klinekole (1924-2011) was elected president of the Mescalero Apache Tribe in 1959, the first woman elected to lead a major tribe in the United States, and went on to serve on the Tribal Council until 1986. She sat on the Tularosa and Mescalero Apache school boards and the New Mexico Indian Education Advisory Council, worked to preserve the Mescalero-Chiricahua language, and received the governor's award for outstanding New Mexican women in 1988. She was raised at Three Rivers, New Mexico, and lived there all her life. Contents: List of Illustrations; Preface; Selected Dates Important in the Lives of the Four Generations; Part One, Warfare and Flight: The Early Life of Dilth-cleyhen; Part Two, Beshad-e: Turmoil and Imprisonment; Part Three, Days of Adjustment and Acculturation: The Life of Christine Louise Kozine; Part Four, Today's Apache Woman: Narcissus Duffy Gayton; Notes; Bibliography; Index.