Lost worlds of 1863 : relocation and removal of American Indians in the Central Rockies and the Greater Southwest / W. Dirk Raat ; with a foreword by Navajo and Laguna Pueblo artist Steven Jon Yazzie.
Prologue: Indigenous peoples in a global context : myth, struggle and survival -- Slavery and removal in Califormia and the Far West -- Lincoln, free soil and Fremont : the Emancipation Proclamation and Indian slavery -- Commentary: Lincoln and the Pueblos -- Numu (Paiute) wanderings, trails, and tears -- Commentary: The military and the boarding school -- Great Basin tribal politics -- Western Shoshones, Southern Paiutes and Colorado Utes -- The Arizona & New Mexico-Sonoran experience -- The long walk of the Navajo -- Commentary: The Hopi-Navajo land controversy -- Death of Mangas Coloradas, Chiricahua "renegades", and Apache prisoners of war -- Treasure hunters hunting deer hunters : Yavapai and Apache gold -- With friends like these : the O'odham water controversy -- Commentary: Mormons and Lamanites -- From removal ("ethnic cleansing") to genocide -- From battle to massacre on the Bear River -- Slaying the deer slayers in Mexico : the Yaqui experience -- Epilogue: After relocation, from Geronimo to Houser.
Summary:
"This is a history about the relationship between what Apache patriarch Ace Dalugie called the Pale Eyes and their opposite numbers, the "redskins" as the Pale Eyes derisively called them. Whites or Pale Eyes usually had a skin color that was not white but flesh colored or a light brownish pink color. As for the "redskins," they were seldom only red but ranged in skin color from a dull yellowish brown (khaki) or a light grayish brown (beige) to bronze and reddish-brown. Only the caste system the whites brought with them dictated a false dichotomy between being "white" and "red," with the "redskins" being assigned the external and subordinate role that racism and casteism required. The history of the Greater Southwest is one in which "whites" maintained the illusion of their superiority by dehumanizing indigenous peoples. As social and cultural historian Gary Michael Tartakov noted, "It [they] dehumanized others to build its [their] own civilization." The relationship between "whites" and "redskins" involved a more diverse group than even Dalugie noted. Prior to and after the Civil War many blacks and ex-slaves came west as cowboys, miners, and soldiers, as did Chinese workers, as well as mulattos and indios from the southern and eastern states (not to mention those individuals who were African-Native Americans). The diversity involved members of both sexes, including females as mothers (including single, divorced, and widowed), pioneers, farmers, cowgirls and ranchers, prostitutes, housekeepers, property owners, entrepreneurs, headwomen, scouts, homesteaders, educators, and warriors. In any case, these were the antagonists that were involved in a major drama of the nineteenth century, the relocation and removal of indigenous societies in the Greater American Southwest. The book is entitled Lost Worlds of 1863 and the drama of relocation centers around that pivotal date in western history"-- Provided by publisher
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