![]() At 30,000 feet everything looks one way, but at 5,000 it looks very different. “It all became a matter of the elevation at which you’re looking at things. “As with so much in life, you think you kind of know what you’re doing, and you find out you don’t,” Brooks explained. He found that what happened in the village was fairly straightforward, but the reasons for it proved to be far more nuanced and veiled by the particulars of culture, history and religion. Brooks, who wrote the landmark Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (The University of North Carolina Press, 2002) thought the time was right to take a look at the massacre. ![]() But what happens when communities just implode?”Īlthough the destruction of Awat’ovi is no secret in the Southwest, it was largely unexamined. “It’s easy enough to see why Apaches and Spaniards hated each other and preyed on each other and all that. “A question that always bothered me was, ‘How do we understand intracultural violence?’” Brooks said. ![]()
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