Massacre at Camp Grant

Aug 28, 2009

American Association for State and Local History

Chip Colwell-Chathaphonh talked about his book Massacre at Camp Grant: Forgetting and Remembering Apache History (University of Arizona Press; May 17, 2007). In his book he discusses a forgotten massacre on April 30, 1871, of more than a hundred Apache men, women, and children who had surrendered to the U.S. Army at Camp Grant, near .. Read More
Chip Colwell-Chathaphonh talked about his book Massacre at Camp Grant: Forgetting and Remembering Apache History (University of Arizona Press; May 17, 2007). In his book he discusses a forgotten massacre on April 30, 1871, of more than a hundred Apache men, women, and children who had surrendered to the U.S. Army at Camp Grant, near Tucson, Arizona. His book creates a multi-vocal narrative from documents and oral traditions to explore the tangled nature of collective memory and the politics of history. He responded to questions from members of the audience. Dick Miller moderated this discussion, which was sponsored by the National Council on Public History. Massacre at Camp Grant was the 2009 NCPH Book Award winner. This was a program at the American Association for State and Local History Annual Meeting, "Making History a 21st Century Enterprise," held Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - Saturday August 29, 2009, at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown.

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:00:07 Unidentified Speaker IN 1871, MORE THAN 100 APACHE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO HAD SURRENDERED TO THE UNITED STATES WERE...
00:00:37 Unidentified Speaker WELL, NOW BACK TO THE BOOK AT HAND. "MASSACRE AT CAMP GRANT," AS YOU CAN SEE, IS A SMALL BOOK. BUT...
00:04:59 Unidentified Speaker WELL, FIRST, I'D LIKE TO SAY GOOD AFTERNOON TO ALL OF YOU AND THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, AND I'D ESPECIALLY...
00:08:38 Unidentified Speaker SHOULD BE CONVERSATION. IN ANOTHER PASSAGE, YOU SPEAK OF WHAT YOU CALL CRITICAL MULTIVOCALITY. I'M...
00:09:12 Unidentified Speaker WHEN I BEGAN RESEARCHING THE HISTORIES THAT SURROUNDED THIS EVENT, WHAT YOU COULD FIND IN PRINTED...
00:16:49 Unidentified Speaker INDEED. SO, ONCE WE BROADEN OUT THE CONVERSATION TO INCLUDE AS MANY OF THE PLAYERS AS WE POSSIBLY...
00:18:39 Unidentified Speaker FOR MANY YEARS, ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND HISTORIANS -- I WOULD ARGUE, FOR MOST OF THE 20st CENTURY, IF...
00:26:13 Unidentified Speaker AND WHAT ALL OF THAT LEADS TO, I THINK, ALL OF THESE PARTICULARS, ARE THE KINDS OF BIG QUESTIONS I...
00:27:13 Unidentified Speaker THE QUESTION OF WHO OWNS THE PAST IS A REALLY STICKY ONE, A DIFFICULT ONE, AND YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK...
00:30:45 Unidentified Speaker ON THAT NOTE, I WOULD LIKE TO OPEN THE FLOOR TO COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS FROM ALL OF YOU. SOME OF YOU...
00:31:20 Unidentified Speaker I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT -- YOU MENTIONED THE ARMY IN THE EAST WAS THE ONE THAT TURNED THE SPOTLIGHT...
00:31:39 Unidentified Speaker SO, THE QUESTION WAS, WHAT WAS THE REACTION OF THE ARMY PERSONNEL IN THE TUCSON AREA. I SHOULD MENTION...
00:35:29 Unidentified Speaker THOSE THAT WERE AT CUSTODY AT CAMP GRANT WERE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEPRIDATIONS THAT HAD BEEN GOING...
00:35:47 Unidentified Speaker SO, THE QUESTION IS, I MENTIONED A BIT EARLIER THAT I BELIEVE IT WAS CHERAKAWA APACHES THAT CONTINUED...
00:40:06 Unidentified Speaker HOW HAS THE BOOK BEEN RECEIVED LOCALLY? AND HOW -- [ INAUDIBLE ] TWO SEPARATE QUESTIONS.
00:40:17 Unidentified Speaker SO, THE BOOK WAS PUBLISHED SEVERAL YEARS AGO, AND FRANKLY, I WAS PRETTY NERVOUS ABOUT WHAT THE REACTION...
00:42:19 Unidentified Speaker FIRST, YOU HAD A BOOK ON THE SAN PEDRO VALLEY AS WELL. I ENJOYED THAT VERY MUCH. IT WAS A GREAT BOOK....
00:43:08 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. SO, FIRST THE SMALL -- THE QUESTION -- A SMALL CUEDO FOR ANOTHER BOOK THAT I HAD PUBLISHED...
00:45:59 Unidentified Speaker YOU HAD MENTIONED IN PART OF YOUR BOOK THAT IT WAS WRITTEN BY THE PERPETRATORS. HOW SOON AFTER THE...
00:46:21 Unidentified Speaker GOOD QUESTION. THE FIRST QUESTION IS WHEN WERE THE FIRST HISTORICAL COUNTS REALLY WRITTEN, AND DOES...
00:49:34 Unidentified Speaker THIS IS JUST AN OBSERVATION, THAT FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, THAT IS A HORRIBLE THING -- THAT HER QUESTION...
00:51:07 Unidentified Speaker SO, THE COMMENT WAS ABOUT SETTING ASIDE JUDGMENT OF THESE EVENTS AND NOT TO EXCUSE, OF COURSE, ANY...
00:56:32 Unidentified Speaker I WAS WONDERING ABOUT THE KIND OF METHODOLOGY OF AN ANTHROPOLOGIST WHO DEAL WITH THESE ORAL ACCOUNTS,...
00:57:03 Unidentified Speaker GOOD QUESTION. THE QUESTION'S ABOUT THE ACTUAL METHODOLOGY OF INCORPORATING SOME OF THESE ORAL NARRATIVES,...
01:00:52 Unidentified Speaker I PROMISED DICK I'D BE GOOD, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO, SO. I WANT TO FOLLOW UP ON A COMMENT FROM THE LADY...
01:03:15 Unidentified Speaker NO, I WISH YOU WOULD HAVE SPOKEN UP EARLIER. THAT'S A GREAT -- SO, JUST TO SUMMARIZE JUST BRIEFLY....
01:07:34 Unidentified Speaker JOHN?
01:07:37 Unidentified Speaker YOU MENTIONED THIS BEGAN AS A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT AND AN NHA GRANT. AT THAT POINT, AT THE OUTSET,...
01:08:12 Unidentified Speaker THE QUESTION ABOUT WHERE THE BOOK STARTED --
01:08:13 Unidentified Speaker HOW THE BOOK STARTED.
01:08:16 Unidentified Speaker MM-HMM, THE LIFE OF THE BOOK.
01:08:17 Unidentified Speaker REPERCUSSIONS OF YOUR BOOK.
01:08:19 Unidentified Speaker SO, THE PROJECT THAT I WAS SO FORTUNATE TO BE A PART OF WAS CALLED THE SAN PEDRO ETHNO HISTORY PROJECT,...
01:12:16 Unidentified Speaker ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? MARY ANN?
01:12:18 Unidentified Speaker A FINAL QUESTION. IS THE BOOK AVAILABLE HERE AT THE CONFERENCE?
01:12:23 Unidentified Speaker THEY WERE SELLING IT AT REGISTRATION. YESTERDAY THEY WERE. GO OUT AND BUY. GO OUT AND BUY. WELL,...
01:14:31 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU.

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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