Book
Apache reservation: indigenous peoples and the American state
University of Texas Press • Austin, Tx • Published In 1993 • Pages:
By: Perry, Richard John.
Abstract
This monograph explores the broad processes that produced the reservation system in the United States through the examination of the history of one Native American population -- the San Carlos Apache of Arizona. Perry states that '…a reservation is a nexus of relationships between a small indigenous population and the global system that encompasses them. Every reservation is unique in many ways, but in some respects the history of San Carlos is a history of United States Indian policies, with their daunting complexities and implications, acted out in southeastern Arizona' (p.ix). As a further amplification of this general thesis the author describes the origins of the Apache in the Southwest, and their relations with the Spanish and American states. He then continues with a discussion of Apache life in the nineteenth century, and on the San Carlos reservation in the mid twentieth, the political economy of San Carlos, and concludes with a chapter entitled 'Trajectories and Trends' in which present and future potentialities of the reservations are explored.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2002
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2000
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- nineteenth century - 1980s
- Coverage Place
- San Carlos Apache, east central Arizona, United States
- Notes
- Richard J. Perry
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-249) and index
- LCCN
- 92037253
- LCSH
- Western Apache Indians