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Victorio
Victorio (Bidu-ya, Beduiat; ca. 1825–October 14, 1880) was a warrior and chief of the Warm Springs band of the Tchihendeh (or Chihenne, often called Mimbreño) division of the central Apaches in what is now the American states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua. In Victorio's War from September 1879 to October 1880, Victorio led a band of Apaches, never numbering more than 200 men, in a running battle with the U.S. and Mexican armies and the civilian population of New Mexico, Texas, and northern Mexico, fighting two dozen skirmishes and battles. He and most of his followers were killed or captured by the Mexican army in the Battle of Tres Castillos in October 1880. War leader and chief Victorio was born around the year 1825 near the Hacienda Encinillas, Chihuahua City (''Ją’éłąyá''), Mexico and its believed he was baptized with the name of "Pedro Cedillo", on his early childhood he was taken from the Hacienda by the Chih ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apache People
The Apache () are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Mimbreño, Ndendahe (Bedonkohe or Mogollon and Nednhi or Carrizaleño and Janero), Salinero, Plains (Kataka or Semat or "Kiowa-Apache") and Western Apache ( Aravaipa, Pinaleño, Coyotero, Tonto). Distant cousins of the Apache are the Navajo, with whom they share the Southern Athabaskan languages. There are Apache communities in Oklahoma and Texas, and reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. Apache people have moved throughout the United States and elsewhere, including urban centers. The Apache Nations are politically autonomous, speak several different languages, and have distinct cultures. Historically, the Apache homelands have consisted of high mountains, sheltered and watered valleys, deep canyons, deserts, and the southern Great Plains, including areas in what is now Eastern Arizona, Northern Mexico (Son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimbreño Apache
The Mimbreños were a sub-tribe of Apache, Native Americans, who were based in New Mexico. Their territory included the narrow valley of the Mimbres River to the Rio Grande into the Mimbres Mountains and the Cook's Range. The band in the Mimbres valley is known as the Tchihende band. Mimbres Apache merged into the Chiricahua Apache, and today many of their descendants are enrolled with the Fort Sill Apache in Oklahoma. They should not be confused with the Mimbres culture, a precontact Ancestral Pueblo people. Civic works The Mimbreños developed an irrigation system in the Mimbres Valley which made it possible for the band to stay in one place.Ackerly, Neal W. (1997). Mimbreno and Gileno Apache Irrigation Systems, 1853-1859. The Kiva (Tucson, Ariz.), 62(4), 349-63. This was different from nomadic Apache groups; however, the irrigation system ultimately failed. Notable Mimbreños * Mangas Coloradas, 19th-century chief * Victorio Victorio (Bidu-ya, Beduiat; ca. 1825&ndash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geronimo
Geronimo ( apm, Goyaałé, , ; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Central Apache bands the Tchihende, the Tsokanende (called Chiricahua by Americans) and the Nednhito carry out numerous raids, as well as fight against Mexican and U.S. military campaigns in the northern Mexico states of Chihuahua and Sonora and in the southwestern American territories of New Mexico and Arizona. Geronimo's raids and related combat actions were a part of the prolonged period of the Apache–United States conflict, which started with the American invasion of Apache lands following the end of the war with Mexico in 1848. Reservation life was confining to the free-moving Apache people, and they resented restrictions on their customary way of life. Geronimo led breakouts from the reservations in attempts to return his people to their previo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cochise
Cochise (; Apache: ''Shi-ka-She'' or ''A-da-tli-chi'', lit.: ''having the quality or strength of an oak''; later ''K'uu-ch'ish'' or ''Cheis'', lit. ''oak''; June 8, 1874) was leader of the Chihuicahui local group of the Chokonen and principal nantan of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache. A key war leader during the Apache Wars, he led an uprising that began in 1861 and persisted until a peace treaty was negotiated in 1872. Cochise County is named after him. Biography Cochise (or "Cheis") was one of the most noted Apache leaders (along with Geronimo and Mangas Coloradas) to resist intrusions by Mexicans and Americans during the 19th century. He was described as a large man (for the time), with a muscular frame, classical features, and long, black hair, which he wore in traditional Apache style. He was about tall and weighed about .Roberts (1993), ''Once They Moved Like the Wind''. In his own language, his name ''Cheis'' meant "having the quality or strength of oak. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delgadito (Apache Chief)
Delgadito (not to be confused with at least two homonymous Navajo chiefs) was a chief (''nantan'') of the Copper Mines group of Tchihende ( Mimbreño) people, one of the three divisions (Tchihende, Chiricahua and Ndendahe) of central Apaches. War-leader and chief As a young warrior and later as a war-leader and a chief, he fought under Tchihende chief Juan Josè (later to be his uncle) and Fuerte, then later under their successors Mangas Coloradas (chief of the "Coppermine" Mimbreño subdivision and principal chief of the Tchihende Apaches) and Cuchillo Negro (chief of the "Warm Springs" Mimbreño subdivision, with Nana as an able lieutenant and second-ranking chief of the Tchihende Apaches). As a warrior and chief, he succeeded Mangas Coloradas as chief of the "Coppermine" Mimbreños. He was a primary actor in Apache warfare until the mid-1860s, along with his contemporary Cochise (who would go on to be the principal chief of the Tsokanende or Chiricahua) and Nana, and with some you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, clause 1 of the United States Constitution (1789). See alsTitle 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001 The oldest and most senior branch of the U.S. military in order of precedence, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed 14 June 1775 to fight the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)—before the United States was established as a country. After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 to replace the disbanded Continental Army.Library of CongressJournals of the Continental Congress, Volume 27/ref> The United States Army considers itself to be a continuation of the Continental Army, and thus considers its institutional inception to be th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
