The Last Warrior

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Summary: The last warrior
Review: I thought the book is very interesting. I am not very far in the book , but it starts off good. It is about a young boy who is in the middle of his warrior training when his tribe gets shipped out and put in a camp. I suggest that anyone who likes books about history should read this

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Summary: An Example of Indoctrination Literature
Review: I would definitely NOT recommend this book to young Chiricahua readers unless they are doing research on indoctrination literature. The author has obviously done extensive investigation of existing historical and cultural documentation on the Chiricahua Apache Tribe and the Western Apache Tribe. This has highlighted the severe lack of published information on Chiricahua world-view, philosophy, and rationale. The author has filled this gap with extrapolation from non-Indian world-view, philosophy, and rationale as well as from popular culture perceptions of what Apaches should be like. The result is that the book overall portrays Non-Apache culture as right and Apache culture as wrong. Solito is portrayed as starting out imbued with Apache culture and with hatred and with lack of understanding, and he ends up imbued with white culture and understanding and free of hatred. There is not a single character in the book who shows any development other than Solito's "whitemanization." Solito seems to encounter an extremely high proportion of helpful well-meaning white people. Only one of the Apaches is portrayed as having died at school. In the beginning of the book, a wounded character who goes out of his way to honor Apache tradition by saving Solito's life criticizes Solito saying that he will never be a warrior. The prediction, it appears, is accurate. Solito spends much of the book wracked by feelings of inadequacy. At the end of the book Solito uses his apparently superior white man techniques to subdue the person who had both saved and criticized him, and delivers him to his death. Solito return to his home to the accolades of loving supportive appreciative white people. I would highly recommend this book as a tool to imbue white people with a sense of superiority. The book shows how good research and presumably good intentions can go wrong.

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Summary: The Last Warrior
Review: The Last Warrior is a great story about hardships, courage and perseverance. The story begins when a young Apache boy is taken from his Arizona homeland before he can complete his warrior training. The white men try to make him act and look like someone he is not. After becoming adjusted to this new way of life, he goes to live with a quake family. One night, a burglar breaks into the house and he kills the intruder to protect his new family. After killing this white man in self-defense, he goes on the run before he is found and killed. After three long years of living in the wild, he finally makes it back to Arizona on his own. (He walked over 3 thousand miles from Pennsylvania to Arizona). He is the last of his kind and gains a new perspective of white men he did not know before. I recommend this book to anyone who is in the mood for a good story and wants to know more about this topic.