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From Cochise to Geronimo - The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874-1886 (Paperback)
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From Cochise to Geronimo - The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874-1886 (Paperback)
Series: The Civilization of the American Indian Series
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In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in
1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and
their relations with the U.S. government further deteriorated. In
From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his previous
biographies of Chiricahua leaders Cochise and Mangas Coloradas to
offer a definitive history of the turbulent period between
Cochise's death and Geronimo's surrender in 1886. Sweeney shows
that the cataclysmic events of the 1870s and 1880s stemmed in part
from seeds of distrust sown by the American military in 1861 and
1863. In 1876 and 1877, the U.S. government proposed moving the
Chiricahuas from their ancestral homelands in New Mexico and
Arizona to the San Carlos Reservation. Some made the move, but most
refused to go or soon fled the reviled new reservation, viewing the
government's concentration policy as continued U.S. perfidy. Bands
under the leadership of Victorio and Geronimo went south into the
Sierra Madre of Mexico, a redoubt from which they conducted bloody
raids on American soil. Sweeney draws on American and Mexican
archives, some only recently opened, to offer a balanced account of
life on and off the reservation in the 1870s and 1880s. From
Cochise to Geronimo details the Chiricahuas' ordeal in maintaining
their identity despite forced relocations, disease epidemics,
sustained warfare, and confinement. Resigned to accommodation with
Americans but intent on preserving their culture, they were
determined to survive as a people.
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