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chip colwell-chanthaphonh In 1928 John P. Clum published the first half of a two-part article that signaled an important shift in Western Apache historiography.1 In the essay titled simply "Es-kin-in-zin," Clum fashioned a life history of the legendary Western Apache leader haské bahnzin (Anger Stands Beside Him).2 Clum's article was written with great empathy and a genuine desire to understand past events from the viewpoint of someone whose life was irreversibly altered by the incursion of Euroamericans into the Apache homelands. However, when Clum described one of the most pivotal episodes in haské bahnzin's life, the so-called "Camp Grant Massacre" of 1871, surprisingly, he turned to non-Apache sources rather than depicting it from the perspective of his subject. Lamentably, nearly every author who has written on this topic has followed in Clum's footsteps.3 Of the scores of articles, books, and Web pages that portray the Camp Grant Massacre, practically all of the texts recycle the incident from the recollections of the American participants.4 Curiously, even those expositions sensitive to the Apache experience have tended to rely on these partial and incomplete sources.5 The Camp Grant Massacre remains a salient moment for contemporary Western Apache peoples.6 Although a difficult
The American Indian Quarterly – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Oct 29, 2004
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