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Chevato : The Story of the Apache Warrior Who Captured Herman Lehmann
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ISBN: 1281092088 9786611092085 0803216203 9780803216204 9780803210974 0803210973 9781281092083 6611092080 Year: 2007 Publisher: Lincoln : Baltimore, Md. : University of Nebraska Press, Project MUSE,

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Here is the oral history of the Apache warrior Chevato, who captured eleven-year-old Herman Lehmann from his Texas homestead in May 1870. Lehmann called him "Bill Chiwat" and referred to him as both his captor and his friend. Chevato provides a Native American point of view on both the Apache and Comanche capture of children and specifics regarding the captivity of Lehmann known only to the Apache participants. Yet the capture of Lehmann was only one episode in Chevato's life. Born in Mexico, Chevato was a Lipan Apache whose parents had been killed in a massacre by Mexican troops. He and his s

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