Big Sycamore stands alone; western Apaches, Aravaipa, and the struggle for place.

9780806139722

Big Sycamore stands alone; western Apaches, Aravaipa, and the struggle for place.

Record, Ian W.

U. of Oklahoma Press

2008

383 pages

$39.95

Hardcover

New directions for Native American studies; v.1

E99

Record (American Indian studies, U. of Arizona) explores the complex relationship between the people and the Aravaipa Canyon in Arizona that they consider their sacred homeland. He discusses that relationship since the establishment of the San Carlos Reservation, and the people's pre-reservation struggle to maintain that connection in the face of hostility from others. Other narrative threads woven through the study are personal stories of contemporary Apaches and their relationship to Aravaipa, and an explanation of the sophisticated subsistence system governing pre-reservation Western Apache society.

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