Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout: White Mountain and Cibecue Apache History Through 1881

"The book continues efforts to bridge Ndee (Apache) and non-Indian ideas about what happened in the past and why history matters today. It stakes out a common ground for understanding the earliest relations between very different groups: Apache, Spanish, Mexican, and American"--Provided by publisher.;Editor's introduction: Ndee history lost and found -- Prologue: Notes on the creation of the Ndee world by Cline Griggs, Sr. -- Apache origins and early history : some non-Indian perspectives -- When did Ndee ancestors come to Arizona? -- The Spanish Entrada -- The Apache war with the Spaniards -- Peaceful Apaches of New Spain -- Anglo arrivals -- Apache-Anglo relations in the 1850s -- The Civil War years in Apache country -- The White Mountain and Cibecue Ndee in the 1860s -- Ndee band chiefs Hashkee-yaniltii-dn and Hashkeeba -- Hashkeeba -- The soldier camp on the White Mountain River -- The road is built, the soldiers arrive -- Camp Apache -- General Crook and the Ndee scouts -- Ndee chiefs [...]visit the east -- One last look back -- The Tonto Basin Campaign, 1872-1873 -- Peace in the Ndee Dawada Bi Ni -- 1874 : the gathering storm -- A new agent -- Betrayal! -- Ishkiinlaa arrested -- A nation scattered -- 1877 : looking homeward -- A shrinking reservation -- A time of discontent -- Death of Hashkeeba -- Epilogue: Remembering Lori Davisson by Sidney B. Brinckerhoff.