Geronimo's Kids: A Teacher's Lessons on the Apache Reservation (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest)
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (634 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0890967741 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Here, readers meet the sons, daughters and grandchildren of the great Apache leaders who surrendered to the U.S. Copyright 1997 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. Twenty-four b&w photos. Ove's personal reminiscences combine with Stockel's (Survival of the Spirit: Chiricahua Apaches in Captivity) expansive knowledge of the historical context to create a cohesive whole. From Publishers Weekly When Ove (now a missionary in Nepal) taught at the Chiricahua Apache settlement of Whitetail, New Mexico in the late 1940s, some of the folks still alive there were participants of the infamous Apache wars. Army in 1886. Ove's recollections of two years as an unprepared young teacher in an alien environment detail the Chiricahua's attempts to keep the old ways alive, i
More than half died in hot, humid prison camps because the Chiricahuas had no inborn resistance to the virulent diseases brought to North America by Europeans. He saw Apache mothers still carrying their infants in cradleboards, grandmothers and mothers still sewing traditional beaded buckskin dresses for their daughters' puberty ceremonies, and men still making traditional Apache bows and arrows. "Totally ignorant of what the Chiricahuas had endured and survived, in my one-room classroom at Whitetail I taught Geronimo's kids American history, including the 'fact' that the Indians of the Southwest had to be subdued by every means possible so that the settlers, the miners, the ranchers, the sheep farmers, the adventurers, the missionaries, and everyone else who wanted the Apache homelands could live peacefully on the land. Army in 1886. In Geronimo's Kids, Robert Ove gives a stirring account of his life from 1948 to 1950 when he taught day school at the community on the reservation. T
Henrietta Stockel, cofounder and former executive director of the Albuquerque Indian Center, is special projects bibliographer for the University of New Mexico Health Services Center Library.. Robert S. Ove, a retired Evangelical Lutheran minister, is a missionary in Nepal.H
A much-needed study of multicultural relationships I came across this book by accident at the local library, looking for contempary books on Native Americans. This one caught my eye, as I am a teacher-in-training and also a lover of all things Native American.Ove took this job with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in 19A much-needed study of multicultural relationships Connie (She who hikes with dogs) I came across this book by accident at the local library, looking for contempary books on Native Americans. This one caught my eye, as I am a teacher-in-training and also a lover of all things Native American.Ove took this job with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in 1948 because he needed a job. Not quite. 8 because he needed a job. Not quite