Legends of the Apache Nation

Twelve-year-old Lena-tu-ha and her two sisters escape from the cattle car on the train carrying the Native American Apaches from their homes in Arizona to the Boarding Schools in New Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The three pubescent maidens trek across the desert with nothing but the clothes on their backs, to try to find any remnants of their tribe at the old rendezvous points that Geronimo had set up years before. They utilize every survival skill they were taught in their native culture to make their way across the desert terrain.  Before they reach their destination, they are captured by Mexican Federales and sold into slavery to the wealthy Mexican Ranchers.

This saga takes Lena-tu-ha from a life of slavery and poverty to a life of assumed identity and wealth. She encounters rape, love, and death in her travels from Mexico to Denver, Colorado. She endures whatever the spirits bestow upon her with the dignity and strength befitting a Native American woman of her era. This is a rags-to-riches love story that includes all the joys and hardships of her Apache people trying to survive in the White-Man’s world.

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a book that tells the truth of the Indian

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2023

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This is an exciting and truthful book of the American Indian and what not just Lena went through, but every Indian of the time. So vivid you seem to be watching a movie. The horrible way the Indians were treated back in the day, when you have to act like you are someone else just to get through life. Unfortunately this is happening to this day. American Indian s are the only people who have to have a blood quantum card to prove they are Indian, due to the Dawes Act. I have bought many of these books for family and friends, you want truth and knowledge, then this is the book to read. Thank you Isherbomb and Geronimo.