In the 1940s and 1950s, long before historians fully accepted oral tradition as a source, Eve Ball (1890-1984) was taking down verbatim the accounts of Apache elders who had survived the army's campaigns against them in the last century. These oral histories offer new versions -- from Warm Springs, Chiricahua, Mescalero, and Lipan Apache -- of events previously known only through descriptions left by non-Indians. A high school and college teacher, Ball moved to Ruidoso, New Mexico, in 1942. After winning their confidence, Ball would ultimately interview sixty-seven Apache people.
- ISBN10 0826318487
- ISBN13 9780826318480
- Publish Date 25 April 2016 (first published 1 January 2001)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint University of New Mexico Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 288
- Language English