The Last Indian Child

Have you ever felt you are living a life of lies? How did you become this way? Are you living in fear or hoping no one can see through your lies and find out how a woman with difficult circumstances coped and lived through the end of her father's existence, avoiding capture, arrest, imprisonment, even the risk of death and became a survivor? In this book you will learn the following: What happened to a three-year-old Indian child born freeThe power of a mother's loveWhat caused the Apache wars in 1879Why she had to live a life of liesHow to survive an unbearable situationThe Last Indian Child is based on a true story of the author's husband's grandmother. Elise Benavidez has spent twenty years researching the family history. It was an impossible task. The Apache Indians didn't record dates of birth. She had to interview family members and check government records, military, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and census records. She was so surprised to discover her husband's grandmother was the daughter of a well-documented Apache chief, Chief Victorio.

-- Elise Benavidez