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Title: If there were a -5 stars I would have rated it that way
Review: This book was one of the most sorry documents of American history. Not only was the author appointed translator without knowledge of either language or culture of the tribe, he was also totally inept and a complete idiot. He claimed to have compiled a "complete" dictionary of the apache language in one of his notebooks, while listing only some chinook words and distorted spanish terms with a residual vocabulary of Navajo hardly sufficient to sustain a "me Tarzan - you Jane"-conversation. However, I noticed this piece of totally superfluous self-aggrandizement to be the original source of Mark Twain's description of native awe before an eclipse as recreated almost verbatim in the "Connecticut Yankee". If literature and/or history can be any worse, such examples must have eluded me. This is as bad as it gets.
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