The War Chief
Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy
A white child orphaned in a raid is raised by Geronimo as an Apache named Shoz-Dijiji in The War Chief (1927), a novel about Apache resistance in the American Southwest. He grows up learning Apache ways and becomes a warrior who fights the white settlers and soldiers moving onto Apache land. Burroughs, who served with the cavalry in Arizona, wrote with sympathy for the Apache side. Its sequel is Apache Devil.
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