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Leaders->Apache, Chiricahua: .Congress petitioned for return of Geronimo's remains
Posted on Tuesday, December 27 @ 16:53:29 CST (5210 reads)

AUTHOR: Brenda Norrell

American Indians are petitioning Congress to investigate the elite Skull and Bones society at Yale University and return the remains of Chiricahua Apache warrior Geronimo to Apaches for reburial.

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Leaders->Apache, Chiricahua: .Words spoken by Goyathlay (Geronimo)
Posted on Monday, February 18 @ 12:33:00 CST (4351 reads)

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Source: Public Domain Documents

"We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or Usen (God) would not have created us.... For each tribe of men Usen created, He also made a home."

"When Usen created the Apaches, He also created their homes in the West. He gave them such grain, fruits, and game as they needed to eat."

"To restore their health when disease attacked them He taught them where to find these herbs, and how to prepare them for medicine."

"He gave them a pleasant climate and all they needed for clothing and shelter was at hand. Thus it was in the beginning: the Apaches and their homes each created for the other by Usen himself."

"When they are taken from these homes they sicken and die. How long will it be until it is said there are no Apaches?"

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Leaders->Apache, Chiricahua: .Geronimo and the Apache culture of his youth
Posted on Monday, February 18 @ 03:02:56 CST (10359 reads)

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Author: Rhea M. Coleman

One day, so ordinary its events were not recorded exactly, but known to be during the 1820s, in the high desert canyon called No-doyon, near the Gila River, a boy child was born to Taklishim (The Gray One) and Juana, a full-blooded Apache woman who had escaped from Spanish slavery.

He was named Goyahkla (or Goyathlay). Some said it should be translated as: One who yawns, however, with a slightly different accent it meant: intelligent, shrewd, clever. The second translation better fits this boy's character.

As happened to every Apache Indian child, at birth, he was rolled in the earth toward the east, the north, the west and the south.

Each time in his roving when he returned to his birth site he performed the same ritual: no matter his age, he rolled on the earth toward each of the four directions. Even in danger he preformed this obligatory ritual.

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Leaders->Apache, Chiricahua: .The Apache and the coming of white men
Posted on Thursday, February 07 @ 01:28:20 CST (5416 reads)

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Source: As told by Geronimo, Public Domain Documents

About the time of the massacre of "Kaskiyeh" (1858) we heard that some white men were measuring land to the south of us. In company with a number of other warriors I went to visit them.

We could not understand them very well, for we had no interpreter, but we made a treaty with them by shaking hands and promising to be brothers.

Then we made our camp near their camp, and they came to trade with us. We gave them buckskin, blankets, and ponies in exchange for shirts and provisions. We also brought them game, for which they gave us some money.

We did not know the value of this money, but we kept it and later learned from the Navajo Indians that it was very valuable.

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Leaders->Apache, Chiricahua: .Geronimo's Mightiest Battle
Posted on Thursday, February 07 @ 00:00:36 CST (3965 reads)

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Source: As told by Geronimo, Public Domain Documents

AFTER the treachery and massacre of Casa Grande we did not reassemble for a long while and when we did we returned to Arizona.

We remained in Arizona for some time, living in San Carlos Reservation, at a place now called Geronimo.

In 1883 we went into Mexico again. We remained in the mountain ranges of Mexico for about fourteen months, and during this time we had many skirmishes with Mexican troops.

In 1884 we returned to Arizona to get other Apaches to come with us into Mexico.

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Leaders->Apache, Chiricahua: .Geronimo tells of the apache - mexican wars
Posted on Wednesday, February 06 @ 22:58:21 CST (4761 reads)

Source: As told by Geronimo, Public Domain Documents

About 1873 we were again attacked by Mexican troops in our settlement, but we defeated them. Then we decided to make raids into Mexico.

We moved our whole camp, packing all our belonging on mules and horses, went into Mexico and made camp in the mountains near Nacori.

In moving our camp in this way we wanted no one to spy on us, and if we passed a Mexican's home we usually killed the inmates.

However, if they offered to surrender and made no resistance or trouble in any way, we would take them prisoners.

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Leaders->Apache, Chiricahua: .Autobiography of Geronimo: Varying fortunes of the bedonkohe apaches
Posted on Wednesday, February 06 @ 22:48:48 CST (4539 reads)

Source: As told by Geronimo, Public Domain Documents

In the fall of 1865 with nine other warriors I went into Mexico on foot. We attacked several settlements south of Casa Grande, and collected many horses and mules. We made our way northward with these animals through the mountains.

When near Arispe we made camp one evening, and thinking that we were not being trailed, turned loose the whole herd, even those we had been riding.

They were in a valley surrounded by steep mountains, and we were camped at the south of this valley so that the animals could not leave without coming through our camp.

Just as we had begun to eat our supper our scouts came in and announced Mexican troops coming toward our camp.

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Leaders->Apache, Chiricahua: .The Warpath of Geronimo: raids that were successful
Posted on Wednesday, February 06 @ 22:16:00 CST (2480 reads)

Source: As told by Geronimo, Public Domain Documents

In the summer of 1862 I took eight men and invaded Mexican territory. We went south on the west side of the Sierra Madre Mountains for five days; then in the night crossed over to the southern part of the Sierra de Sahuaripa range.

Here we again camped to watch for pack trains. About ten o'clock next morning four drivers, mounted, came past our camp with a pack-mule train.

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Leaders->Apache, Chiricahua: .Geronimo goes on the warpath with the Mexicans
Posted on Wednesday, February 06 @ 16:24:58 CST (3139 reads)

Source: As told by Geronimo, Public Domain Documents

All the other Apaches were satisfied after the battle of Kaskiyeh, but I still desired more revenge. For several months we were busy with the chase and other peaceful pursuits.

Finally I succeeded in persuading two other warriors, Ah-koch-ne and Ko-deh-ne, to go with me to invade the Mexican country.

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Leaders->Apache, Chiricahua: .Geronimo lost his whole family in the massacre of Kaskiyeh
Posted on Wednesday, February 06 @ 14:14:01 CST (5613 reads)

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Source: As told by GERONIMO, Public Domain Document

In the summer of 1858, being at peace with the Mexican towns as well as with all the neighboring Indian tribes, we went south into Old Mexico to trade.

Our whole tribe (Bedonkohe Apaches) went through Sonora toward Casa Grande, our destination, but just before reaching that place we stopped at another Mexican town called by the Indians Kas-ki-yeh.

Here we stayed for several days, camping outside the city. Every day we would go into town to trade, leaving our camp under the protection of a small guard so that our arms, supplies, and women and children would not be disturbed during our absence.

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Leaders->Apache, Chiricahua: .Geronimo autobiography - the early years
Posted on Wednesday, February 06 @ 00:59:20 CST (6091 reads)

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Source: As told by Geronimo, Public Domain Document

I was born in No-doyohn Canon, Arizona, June, 1829.

In that country which lies around the head waters of the Gila River I was reared. This range was our fatherland; among these mountains our wigwams were hidden; the scattered valleys contained our fields; the boundless prairies, stretching away on every side, were our pastures; the rocky caverns were our burying places.

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Leaders->Apache, Chiricahua: Cochise: 'Cut Through the Tent' Incident
Posted on Monday, February 04 @ 12:50:09 CST (3523 reads)

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The chain of events began the prior October, with an attack on the ranch of John Ward, in the Sonoita Valley about 12 miles from Fort Buchanan, the first American fort in the Gadsden Purchase territory, established in 1857. At the time of this affair, Buchanan was home to Companies C and H of the 7th Infantry.

Ward was away from his ranch at the time, and when he returned, discovered that cattle and his 11- or 12-year-old stepson, Felix Ward, were missing. He reported the event to authorities at Fort Buchanan.

Ward apparently reported that the theft was the work of Cochise, who was known to have a camp about 70 miles east in the Chiricahua Mountains.

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