Ethnographic overview and assessment of Chiricahua National Monument and Fort Bowie National Historic Site
Rushforth S. 2010. Ethnographic overview and assessment of Chiricahua National Monument and Fort Bowie National Historic Site. Las Cruces, New Mexico
This monograph is submitted to meet the requirements of National Park Service Task Agreement Number J1233040013. The purpose of this project was to provide archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and bibliographic background concerning Chiricahua Apaches and their relationship with land now occupied by the Chiricahua National Monument (Chiricahua NM) and Fort Bowie National Historic Site (Fort Bowie NHS). Park Service personnel also emphasized the importance, through this project, of establishing better contemporary working relationships between themselves and Chiricahua Apache people. Park Service personnel emphasized that the underlying intent of this project was to provide information and establish contacts that would allow them better to "interpret" in a culturally sensitive manner at Chiricahua NM and Fort Bowie NHS. They stressed that they were interested in adding an "Apache perspective" to their interpretive programs and in "reintroducing" Chiricahua Apaches to Chiricahua NM and Fort Bowie NHS.