A Fateful Day in 1698

Deni Seymour is a full-time research archaeologist affiliated with two academic institutions and the nonprofit research group Jornada Research Institute. She is the author of Where the Earth and Sky Are Sewn Together (The University of Utah Press, 2011) and the editor of From the Land of Ever Winter to the American Southwest: Athapaskan Migrations, Mobility, and Ethnogenesis (The University of Utah Press, 2012).

"A Fateful Day in 1698 joins a growing corpus of scholarship illustrating the importance of war, conflict, and violence in the history of the Southwest. As sure as wind and water sculpted the terrain into mesas and canyons, conflict and violence shaped the human terrain into peoples and nations. Seymour details one case of how this occurred, showing that 30 March 1698 did truly prove to be a fateful day in the history of the Southwest."--New Mexico Historical Review "In this carefully researched study, archaeologist Deni J. Seymour provides the most definitive account yet written of an important and well-documented southwestern battle between the Spanish-allied Sobaipuri-O'odham (Pima) and their Jocome-led indigenous enemies on Easter in 1698."--Southwestern Historical Quarterly "This is good ethnohistory, where history, anthropology, archaeology, and ethnology come together in a mix that interprets the whys and wherefores of an incident. ...What has been accomplished here is top notch."--American Indian Quarterly "Seymour's study examines all the primary sources and then incorporates her archaeological conclusions from the battlefield of this historic engagement to tell the definitive story of what happened.... None has the complete story as does Seymour's book." --Edwin Sweeney, author of Mangas Coloradas: Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches and From Cochise to Geronimo: The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874-1886. "The volume presents a model for integrating ethnography, historic documents, and archaeological data into a method for reconstructing past behavior. It will set the standard of how future archaeologists and ethnohistorians will identify and confirm specific locations in the archaeological record." --David Hill, consultant, Archaeological Research & Technology, Inc.