A Brief Look at the Dizhe'e People

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A Brief Look at the Dizhe'e People

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Flagstaff, Arizona – Before 1870 much of the country around
Flagstaff was occupied by the Dilzhe'e, an Athaspakan-speaking
people known popularly as the Tonto Apache. These people lived in the
region for centuries, but in 1875, the government force-marched the
Dilzhe'e, along with their Yavapai neighbors, to a detention camp in
San Carlos, east of Phoenix. Chris Coder will outline their history and
the relationships they had with other tribes in the area as well as
clarifying their political and cultural situation as it exists in the
Upper Verde Valley today.

* WHEN: Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 7:00 p.m. * WHERE: Cline
Library, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona
Chris Coder specializes in field survey, geomorphology and Apache
ethnohistory. He spent seven years working on the River Corridor Project
in Grand Canyon National Park and has been the Tribal Archeologist for
the Yavapai-Apache Nation in Camp Verde since 1997. Chris lives outside
Flagstaff with his wife and daughters.

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Canyon Country Community Lectures are sponsored by Grand Canyon
Association, NAU Cline Library, NAU Grand Canyon Semester, Coconino
Community College's Colorado Plateau Studies, and Sharlot Hall
Museum. For more information on this series or the Grand Canyon
Association contact: Helen Thompson:

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