The
Chiricahua Apaches were very mobile and it is rare to find any evidence of their temporary camps.
Perhaps no humans have ever blended so seamlessly into the American Southwest as the
Chiricahua Apaches, They thrived in hostile desert: conditions by hunting, gathering, and traveling in small nomadic bands, and their intimate knowledge of the land gave them strong advantages in times of war.
Although the Mohonk Lodge is perhaps best known to readers of this magazine for the marketing of Southern Plains style beaded moccasins sourced locally from Cheyenne and Arapaho makers, it is known that beadwork was also acquired from the
Chiricahua Apaches at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, as well as from other Apache reservations in the American Southwest.
Sill and then in Lawton, Okla.),
Chiricahua Apaches (1899, first at Ft.
In 1885, the regiment was no longer required on the Texas frontier; it was ordered to Arizona to contend with Geronimo and his
Chiricahua Apache. Once in Arizona, the troops were divided among forts Grant, Thomas, Apache, and Verde.
"Making Peace with Conchise: The 1872 Journal of Captain Joseph Alton Sladen" is a transcript of the Captain's journal of their efforts to make peace with the chief of the
Chiricahua Apache chief known as Conchise.
The skull of the legendary
Chiricahua Apache chief Geronimo may languish in a display case at Yale University.
The settler, John Ward, wrongly claimed that the
Chiricahua Apache chief, Cochise, and his men were responsible and demanded that something be done.
And its presence hastened what may have been an inevitable conflict, as the peoples of two nations - Americans and the
Chiricahua Apache - converged here to take advantage of the life-sustaining resource.
Apache Mothers and Daughters, by anthropologist Ruth McDonald Boyer and Narcissus Duffy Gayton is, superficially, a collective biography of four succeeding generations of
Chiricahua Apache women, from the great-grandmother, Dilthcleyhen, to her living great-grandaughter, Narcissus Duffy Gayton.
Following Cochise:
Chiricahua Apache Chief (1995) and Mangas Coloradas: Chief of the
Chiricahua Apaches (1998) this final volume in the trilogy focuses on the time period between Cochise's death and Geronimo's surrender.
He carved in marble, limestone, slate, and wood;cast in bronze;and fabricated things in a variety of metals," writes Gail Tremblay, describing the Warm Springs
Chiricahua Apache artist.