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Book Review
| Don't Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life (1860–1975). By Eva Tulene Watt, with Keith H. Basso. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xxvi + 340 pp. Illustrations, maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth; $24.95, paper.)
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This book is an act of great generosity on the part of Eva Tulene Watt, the 92-year-old White Mountain Apache woman who has chosen to share her life, her culture, and her stories. She did it for the younger generations of her tribe, she said, so they'll know something "from long years ago." And she did it for white people. "They should hear our stories first, 'cause then they can make better stories for themselves" (p. xiv). |
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Readers who want their history to be about more than battlefields and body counts will relish this book. Most non-Indian accounts recognize only chiefs and some important warriors, but Mrs. Watt has "lots of Apaches in there and all they were doing" (p. xv). Her voice rings so clearly in the stories about three generations of her family that reading her words is almost as good as sitting at her kitchen table. |
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