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Loading... Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History (2008)by Karl Jacoby
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 …[P]resents a fairly straightforward analysis of the events leading up to the Araviapa Canyon attack and does not attempt to present a theoretical explanation for the violence of the frontier or colonialism. The major contribution… is Jacoby’s portrait of each group’s distinctive perspective.… [A]lso highlights the difficulty of subaltern histories—preserving the perspective of conquered peoples, which tends to be lost or destroyed.  …[A] crisply readable history — four of them, in fact, with the Apache, the Anglos, the vecinos and the O'odham allotted two chapters each. Jacoby does a good job outlining the causes of the massacre from each point of view.… [E]ven better is the way in which he paints a picture of the often intimate relationships and shifting loyalties between each group.… A searching study of one of the American West’s signature massacres, distinguished by the multiethnic nature of its perpetrators and the legal case that ensued.… A lucid, well-written work of regional history that opens necessary conversation and has broader implications—essential for students of the American West. Belongs to Publisher Series
Predawn, April 30, 1871, a party of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O'odham Indians gathered outside an Apache camp in the Arizona borderlands. At first light they struck, murdering nearly 150 Apaches, mostly women and children, in their sleep. In its day, the atrocity, known as the Camp Grant Massacre, generated unparalleled national attention--federal investigations, heated debate in the press, and a tense criminal trial. This was the era of the United States' "peace policy" toward Indians, and the Apaches had been living on a would-be reservation, under the supposed protection of the U.S. Army. President Grant decried the act as "purely murder," but American settlers countered that the distant U.S. government had failed to protect them from Apache attacks. The massacre has since largely faded from memory. Now, drawing on oral histories, newspaper reports, and participants' accounts, author Karl Jacoby brings this horrific incident and tumultuous era to life.--From publisher description. No library descriptions found. |
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