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Welcome to our resources section. The resource materials
that may be of help to you are in two areas. First, there are
resources available to aid you in your personal Christian growth or
to assist you in your discipleship of other believers.
Secondly, there is a list of books that you can research to gain
additional historical information that may be of interest to you on
the Apache culture. |
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CHRISTIAN RESOURCES |
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There are several ministries that are available to aid
you in your personal Christian growth or to assist you in your
discipleship of others who are searching for truth. What a privilege
to know that the Bible has the answers to questions we have and
addresses the problems that we face in our lives. Take advantage of
these resources to multiply your effectiveness as you serve the
Lord!
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Our Daily Bread
A daily devotional available free or for a donation to
help cover costs from RBC Ministries, P.O. Box 2222, Grand Rapids,
MI 49501-2222; website: www.rbc.net
Today's Native Father
A bi-monthly publication available free or for a donation
to help cover costs from NYM Ministries, P.O. Box 171, International
Falls, MN 56649
Child Evangelism Fellowship
Resource materials for ministry to children
P.O. Box 348, Warrenton, MO 63383
1-800-748-7710
website:
www.gospelcom.net/cef/
Family Altar News
A quarterly publication with sermons by Lester Roloff available free
from The Roloff Evangelistic Enterprises, P.O. Box 1177, Corpus
Christi TX 78403
phone: 361-289-9215
website: www.roloff.org
Bible Tracts Inc.
Evangelistic tracts available free as the Lord provides.
P.O. Box 588
Normal, IL 61761
Fellowship Tract League
Evangelistic tracts available free as the Lord provides.
P.O. Box 164
Lebanon, OH 45036
513-494-1075
website:
www.biblebelievers.com\FTL1.html
World Missionary Press
Evangelistic tracts available.
P.O. Box 120, New Paris, IN 46553-0120
219-831-2111
website:
www.wmpress.org
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The
Mailbox Club
Bible correspondence lessons for all ages available at a minimal
cost.
call toll free: 1-800-488-5226
website:
www.mailboxclub.org"A New Life In
Christ" Bible Study
A Bible study course available free from Regeneration Ministries,
P.O. Box 219,
Fort Thomas , Arizona 85536-0219 To read some of the feedback that
we have received from those doing these lessons, click on "Testimonies."
Calvary Missionary Press
Western Apache Hymnbooks available.
P.O. Box 13532, Tucson AZ 85732
The Wilds Music
Christian music resource.
P.O. Box 509, Taylors, SC 29687-0509
864-268-4760
Majesty Music
Christian music resource.
P.O. Box 6524, Greenville, SC 29606
1-800-334-1071
The Voice in the Wilderness
A monthly publication of news and comments available free.
P.O. Box 7037
Ashville, NC 28802
Grace Baptist Bible College& Seminary
Correspondence studies to earn a degree in Bible Studies.
2808 Wilkshire Dr., Shelby, NC 28150
704-482-9621
American Indian Bible Institute
Bible study materials available.
P.O. Box 511, Norwalk, CA 90651-0511
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CULTURAL RESOURCES |
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Daagot'ee!
Welcome to the Cultural Resources
section of our website. We hope that you will be able to find many
of these books at your local library or bookstore to aid your
understanding of the Native culture. Happy reading!
A'shoog!
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Historical
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Apache Agent
by Woodworth Clum
University of Nebraska Press
Geronimo
by Angie Debo
University of Oklahoma Press
Geronimo: His Own Story
Edited by S.M. Barrett
Ballantine Books
In The Days of Victorio
by Eve Ball
The University Of Arizona Press
Life Among the Apaches
by John C. Cremony
University Of Nebraska Press
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On The Border With Crook
by John Bourke
University Of Nebraska Press
Once They Moved Like The Wind
by David Roberts
Simon and Schuster
The Truth about Geronimo
by Britton Davis
University Of Nebraska Press
Western Apache Raiding and Warfare
by Grenville Goodwin
The University of Arizona Press
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Cultural
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The American Indian Digest
by George Russell
Thunderbird Enterprises
An Apache Life-Way
by Morris E. Opler
Apache Days and After
by Thomas Crust
University Of Texas Press
The Apache Indians
by Francis G. Lockwood
University Of Nebraska Press
The Apache Indians
by Sonia Bleeker
Apache Indians, Raiders of the Southwest
by Sonia Bleeker
Apache Land
by Charles D. Poston
Apache Reservation Indigenous Peoples & American State
by Richard Perry
Apache Vengeance
by Jess G. Hayes
The Cibeque Apache
by Keith Basso
Waveland Press
Cochise: Great Apache Chief
by Enid Johnson
Enju
by Sinclair Browning
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I Fought With Geronimo
by Jason Betzinez
Indah
by Eve Ball
In the Apache Country
by William Croft Barnes
Insight Guides: Native Americana
edited by John Gattuso
APA Publications
Myths and Tales Of The White Mountain Apache
by Grenville Goodwin
The University Of Arizona Press
No Turning Back
by Pollingaysi Qoyawayma
University of New Mexico Press
Personal Narrative of Explorations
by John R. Bartlett
A Season on the Reservation
by Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Social Organization of the Western Apache
by Grenville Goodwin
The University Of Arizona Press
Teaching the Native American
by Hap Gilliland
Kendall/Hunt Publishing
The Whiteman’s Gospel
by Craig Smith
Indian Life Books
The White Man’s Indian
by Robert F. Berkhoffer, Jr.
Vintage Books
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Excerpt from "A
Season on the Reservation" by Kareem Abdul Jabbar
"Since around
1350, when the Apache had moved down from Northern Canada, settled
in Arizona, and made the Southwest their home, they had lived in
freedom. Now, six hundred years later, they were residents of a
welfare state run by a distant, neglectful government concerned with
many other things besides the fate of the nation’s indigenous
peoples" (Abdul-Jabbar, p. 81).
"Basketball was something to celebrate
and feel good about in otherwise tough circumstances. The reality of
life on the reservation lay in the numbers. About 14,000 people,
12,000 of whom were White Mountain Apache, inhabited the area, which
includes Apache and Navaho counties. In 1993 (the last time figures
were collected), these two counties were, respectively, the sixth
and seventh poorest in the United States. Of all households, 52
percent lived below the federal poverty line. Their unemployment
rate was 61 percent. Per capita income was $3,805 annually. More
then 50 percent of tribal members lacked a high school diploma and
only 1.3 percent had a college degree.
Disease was prevalent. One third of the
children were obese, which meant that they were much more prone to
diabetes as a adults. They were also more prone to high blood
pressure, kidney disease, and heart disease. Diabetes was so
pervasive on the reservation that throughout the mid-nineties, Johns
Hopkins University has been conducting an obesity prevention project
on the White Mountain Apache and San Carlos Apache reservations"
(ibid, p. 82).
"Obesity was just one problem on the
reservation. Fifty percent of the White Mountain Apache people were
homeless. Estimates of alcoholism ranged from 40 - 60 percent of the
local population. Substance abuse, both drugs and liquor, drove an
already high crime rate higher. Homicides averaged one per week, and
32 percent of all deaths on the reservation were alcohol-related.
Drunk drivers were a constant threat on the tribe’s roads.
‘Everyone in Whiteriver,’ said School
District Number 20 superintendent John Clark, ‘has lost someone to
drinking.’
Divorce was rampant. Of kids between
the ages of ten and seventeen, 40 percent did not live with both
parents and 10 percent did not live with either parent. Early in the
1990's, in one year alone, twenty-five tribal members committed
suicide.
While homelessness was pervasive,
virtually none of the White Mountain Apache was actually without a
place to live, because extended families took in those relatives who
did not have a dwelling of their own. (When locals spoke about their
families, they were not referring only to their parents or their
brothers and sisters, or sons and daughters; they were also
including their aunts and uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews,
grandnieces, grandnephews, grandparents, and other more distant
blood connections.)
The numbers described a harsh reality.
In such an environment, people looked for something to rally around
and celebrate. In Whiteriver they found it in their basketball
teams..." (ibid, pp. 83-84).
Bibliography:
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem. A Season on the Reservation. New York:
William Morrow & Co, 2000. |
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To review additional
historical information on the Apache,
click your curser on Historical Overview. |
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To read two accounts of
Native men who searched for Truth,
click your curser on
A Search For Truth and
An Apache Chief Finds Truth.
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