Don't Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life (1860-1975)

by Eva Tulene Watt

Book Overview

When the Apache wars ended in the late nineteenth century, a harsh and harrowing time began for the Western Apache people. Living under the authority of nervous Indian agents, pitiless government-school officials, and menacing mounted police, they knew that resistance to American authority would be foolish. But some Apache families did resist in the most basic way they could: they resolved to endure. Although Apache history has inspired numerous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816523916
• ISBN13: 9780816523917
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A part of my family history

I first found this book in a bookstore in Pinetop, AZ. I picked it up because it sounded interesting. Later I found out, from my grandparents that Eva was a distant relative to me. She mentions her uncles, one of them is John Lupe; my great-great grandfather. I loved this book and was completely taken in by her stories. This book has become a treasure to me and the rest of my family's members.

Awesome....

What was awesome about the book was the history...the places she talks about the storis she told. As a member of the White Mountain Apache living in Indiana with my four boys it made them proud of their heritage and as each of them read out loud the look on each of their faces as Eva describes places on the reservation they knew the exact place she was talking about. Their great grandma who is still alive in Whiteriver use to tell them a lot of similiar stories Eva talks about, the Soldiers in Fort Apache, and just life in general in the early 1900's seeing it in print just made the experience of reading the book as a family was just awesome!! as my 6 year old stated when we asked if he liked the book.