Siting Chiricahua resistance to settler colonialism

"when I was young I walked all over this country, east and west, and saw no other people than the Apaches. After many summers I walked again and found another race of people had come to take it. How is it? Why is it that the Apaches wait to die - that they carry their lives on their fingernails? ... The Apaches were once a great nation; they are now but few, and because of this they want to die and so carry their lives on their fingernails." - Cochise, Chiricahua Chief, as I found recounted in an official history of Fort Bowie

Interestingly, General Howard, whom President Grant sent to advance his "Peace Policy" with Arizona nations, had been head of the Freedman's Bureau. (He was also one of the founders and namesake of Howard University.). The peace negotiations of the early 1870s established a reservation for the Chiricahua on the Rio Grande, but the Indian Bureau "disliked the location. ... Resting on the international boundary, it not only encouraged and facilitated Chiru raids into Mexico but also attracted other Apaches who used it as a base... And the Bureau had a new policy of bringing all Apaches together on a single reservation, San Carlos, in the parched bottoms of the Gila River some 121 km to the north." Some Chiricahua went to Mexico and continued to resist. After years on ongoing conflict, Geronimo was captured and he and many other resisters and their families were placed on a train to Florida.

This little I know.
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