Apache Wars Essays

  • Apache Wars: The Apache War

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    The Apache Wars were a series of conflicts between American Soldiers and the Apache Indians. The War lasted from 1849 up until 1924. This war was very important in United States history. There were several different “wars” between the Americans and Apache due to the fact that the United States fought many different Apache Nations. One major conflict in the Apache Wars was the Jicarilla War. This was a war between Jicarilla Apaches and the United States and took place in New Mexico. Ute Indians were

  • Four Page Essay On Geronimo

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    the Apache

  • The Genocide of the Chiricahua Indian Tribe

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    justify their means by ignoring their own tyrannical ways. It has been discovered that Apaches in the late 1800s were reported to exist in four separate bands, or clusters of rancherias, although how far back in time the division occurs is unknown (Griffen 5). The native name for the easternmost band was the Chihene, or "red painted people"; they were also known as Victorio, Mangas Coloradas, and Loco Apaches after the Spanish names of important leaders. To the south and west were the Chokonen

  • Lozen

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    Lozen was given the privilege to join the elder’s war council meeting and major ceremonies, not because she was victorio’s sister, but because she was a special and unique warrior and it was rare to see a woman reach that statue of importance amongst a male entourage. The Apache fought many wars throughout their life time but there is one that is particularly significant to them, the American and Apache War. In the year of 1860, leader of the Apache tribe Victorio had signed a peace treaty with the

  • GERONIMO

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    was headquartered at Fort Huachuca, the base of operations for the campaign. The Army had permission to go to Mexico in pursuit. Captain Henry Lawton, commanding officer of "B" Troop, 4th Cavalry, was an experienced soldier who knew the ways of the Apaches. His tactics were to wear them down by constant pursuit. Stationed at the fort at that time were many men who would later become well known in the Army: Colonel W. B. Royall, commanding officer of the fort and the 4th Cavalry, who was responsible

  • Native Americans: The Oppression Of The Apache People

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    The Apache people are native Americans who have been-and are being- oppressed by the united states government. This oppression started in 1849 and has continued until today. In 1849, the Apache Wars started what would be an endless abuse by the United States government towards the Apache people. The United States wanted their citizens to move west and take over Native Americans’ land to build railroads and expand their lands as a country but when the Apaches didn’t do what they wanted they made them

  • Geronimo

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    Geronimo was given the name Goyahkla at birth. Goyahkla, in the Apache language, means one who yawns. The name Geronimo is Spanish for Jerome, which means psycho. He most likely received this name after fighting ferociously against the Mexican army, who prayed to St. Jerome often for help. He took the name with great honor and pride. His military excellence and leadership skills have helped mold him into the greatest Apache leader in their history. Geronimo had a normal childhood for a Native

  • Apaches Research Project

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    200 Apaches massacred, 100 more murdered, and 148 laying dead at Chihuahua Mexico, was something the Chiricahua Apache tribe, and many other tribes, lived through on a regular basis (Hoxie 1).  All of the previously mentioned, in addition to wars and being parted from their own land, were some of the consequences due to a country seeking to expand and conquer new territory, regardless of what or who they had to eliminate in order to accomplish this goal.  However, if Americans would have taken a

  • Technology and Power

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    frontier. To better understand the needs for communication technology in this conquest, let's first get a little history lesson on what happened. During this conquest of the West, an Apache Chief known as Geronimo led the Chiricahua Apaches in a series of revolts against the American tyranny that had seized Apache lands, herded its people into a Reservation, then abolished the Reservation to reclaim the land for white Americans.

  • Apache Tribe Research Paper

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    Oklahoma Apache Tribe Apache is a word that comes from the Zuni word meaning enemy and the Yuma word for “fighting men.” The Western Apache, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan and Kiowa are the six sub-tribes the Apache Tribe consist of. Each of the sub-tribes are from a different geographical region. There are six regional groups. It’s impossible because of their nomadic nature that there were a lot of names that were used to identify the same tribe. The Angelo theory is that the Apache Indians

  • Native Americans and the Whiteman's Influence

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    for the American Indians. For the Western Apache this problem first came to light in 1853 after the Gadsden Purchase was finalized. The Whitemen invaded the western Apache’s Arizona territory not with peace, but with demands and open hostility. Thus began a brutal thirty year war that led to Apache defeat (Basso pg. 24). The creation of reservations in 1872 was not enough for the Whitemen. They also created an assimilation program for the Western Apache because acclimating one’s self to Anglo American

  • Stagecoach Overview

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    when Buck informs him the Plummer brother's are in Lordsburg. The Plummer brothers killed Ringo's father and brother and Ringo has sworn to get revenge. Prior to the stagecoaches departure the group is informed by Lt. Blanchard that Geronimo and the Apaches are on a warpath. Lt. Blanchard tells the group he and his men will escort them to Dry Fork. However from there onward they will have no military protection. Moments before departure the coach is hailed down and two more passengers board Hatfield

  • Geronimo: Renegade of Justice

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    was born sometime in the late 1820’s. He was the descendant of a respected family, his grandfather Mahko, the chief of their tribe before his dad, Talkishim, or “the Gray One.” He was born into the Chiricahua tribe, one of many Apache bands in the area. His original Apache name was Goyahkla which means “one who yawns.” His birthplace is thought to be somewhere near present day Clifton Arizona, though no one really knows for sure; Geronimo called it “No-dayohn Canyon.” He says he had three brothers

  • Long Walk of the Diné

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    Mexicans as they began to enter the territory and was the most serious cause of insecurity in the eyes of Maj. Edward Canby, who found himself the senior Union officer in the New Mexico Territory as the Civil War heated up. Canby's proposed solution was to remove the Navajo and Mescalero Apaches, considered “wild tribes” to a reservation near Ft. Sumner in eastern New Mexico. He had selected Colonel Kit Carson, then with the New Mexico Volunteers to lead the expedition to accomplish this monumental

  • Comanche Culture

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    strategically sound effort before the war with the Ute and Comanche – their diverse diet helped to avoid the laundry list of problems associated with high-protein, bison-based methods of substinence, chief amongst these concerns would be birth defects in pregnant women (Hamalainen, 31). The Apache’s formerly advantageous development of farming began to backfire, however, since their rivals simply traded in their bison meat for Pueblo maize and attacked the numerous Apache villages with guerrilla raids,

  • Speaking Through Silence

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    in Western Apache Culture is an investigation of situations when members of a certain Apache community in the western United States assume the state of silence as a form of social interaction. In this paper, I will first note details of the society under consideration and Basso’s interests in regards to the questions he is trying to answer. I will introduce some anthropological concepts that are suitable to the discussion, followed by Basso’s observations regarding silence in the Apache community

  • Importance Of Food Sharing

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    Section 1 Question 2 Food sharing traditionally has been a large part of indigenous societies, between the Dolgan/ Nganasan, Batek and the Western Apache food sharing has been a large part of their society. All three have similarities and differences; even our own society has a food sharing implications. The Dolgan and Nganasan food sharing process consisted of people supplying resources through kinship. Much of the sharing with meat comes from the reciprocal relationships with the animals they

  • Exploring the History of Apache Native American Indians

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    Cultural investigation Apache Native American Indian Population: Their population in the early settlement in 1878 was estimated between 1600 and 2400 and now it is estimated that it is the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 53,330 people identified themselves as Apache, up from 35,861 in 1980. Traditional family groups: The Chiricahua: their most noted leaders being Cochise, Victorio, Loco, Chato, Nahche, Bonito and Geronimo, Lipan: The Lipan are first mentioned in Spanish records in 1718 when they

  • Analysis Of The Revisionist Western Film Geronimo: An American Legend

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    Geronimo: An American Legend, (1993) directed by Walter Hill, sheds light on the events that transpired as the Whites migrated and expanded towards the West. The theme of this movie revolves around the oppression and injustices committed on the “inferior” Apache race by the “superior” Whites, and the conflicts that ensued from it. In the face of oppression and injustice, one will go to great lengths to protect and preserve one’s liberty, and likewise, it can also alter the conviction of an outsider. A situation

  • Geronimo

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    A young Apache at the time, Geronimo set out one day with his family from their homeland, which is now located in southeastern Arizona, on a trading mission into Mexico. Many other families also went with him. The men went into town to trade each day, leaving their families behind. On this momentous evening, they returned home to find that Mexican soldiers had ferociously attacked their camp. They had murdered their women and children and stolen their supplies and horses. The dead were scattered