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.
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.
"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.
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