#chiricahua apache

[frostedmagnolias]

Chiricahua Apache woman, Hattie Tom

c. 1899

Photographed by Frank A. Rinehart

[con-carino]

Lozen, a warrior and prophet of the Chiricahua Apache. She was the sister of Victorio, a prominent Chief to the people. She was his right hand, his secret weapon. It was believed she had the ability to discern and know how to locate their enemies by facing her palms to the sun. She was deeply gifted and saved her people many times when it came to battle. She isn’t often highlighted or known about outside of Apache culture so I wanted to make a tribute to her.

[punk-antisystem]

Geronimo (Goyahkla o Goyathlay), líder de los Apaches Chiricahuas, en las Montañas de Sierra Madre, México. Fotografía tomada por Camillus S. Fly en 1886.

[thebigkelu]

Studio portrait (sitting) of Native Americans (Chiricahua Apache) Gazie and her two children. - 1890s

[railwayhistorical]

Eastbound Stack Train

This is an eastbound stack train on the Sunset Route. While now being just a portion of the Union Pacific, this line was originally the Southern Pacific (built in 1880). The SP, along with the ATSF, formed the second transcontinental railroad in the United States.

[In actuality, the SP helped form the second, third, and fourth transcontinental lines in this country. It should be noted as well: Southern Pacific's precursor company, the Central Pacific, formed half the the first transcontinental—along with the UP.]

In the first image, we see the train after having come down from Dragoon Pass; it is rolling by the town of Cochise, Arizona. In the second and third images, the train is heading out across the Willcox Playa; the Dos Cabezas Mountains are out of frame toward the right. Willcox is visible in the distance in those shots.

The current state of railroading, a sidebar This is how the current five or seven major railroads would have it these days: fewer trains (to lower costs for the number of employees necessary), but miles long each. This one is being powered by six high horsepower locomotives—four in front with two positioned somewhere in the middle of the train. Look at all the goods that two crew members are delivering to the east—and the railroad companies would like to slash 50% of those jobs so that a single person would be responsible for the operation of a train like you see here before you, but also ones that carry hazardous materials. This practice is for the benefit of the shareholders at the expense of the workers and all the towns the trains run through. For context, one might look up the derailment that occurred in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 3rd 2023.

Three images by Richard Koenig; taken May 4th 2024.

Land acknowledgement: Hohokam, O'odham Jewed, Chiricahua Apache.

[homovulcanensis]

Does anybody have a good (online) source for the Chiricahua/Mescalero Apache language? The only dictionaries I can find have like 20 words in them...

I need it for reasons.

[littlefeather-wolf]

THE CHIRICAHUA APACHE NANTAN, GOYATLE (GERONIMO) IN WAR CAP :

Bedonkohe ...

Geronimo was born in what is today Arizona in the upper Gila River country on June 16, 1829. His birth name was Goyahkla, or "one who yawns." He was part of the Bedonkohe subsection of the Chiricahua tribe of Apaches, a small but mighty group of around 8,000 people ...

Apache nantans led from the front, so he might just be checking up on the column behind him. Many Apaches think he caused unnecessary decimation of the Chiricahua people; that he remained in the field too long, causing avoidable deaths. This nantan was blinded by revenge on the Mexicans. Full disclosure: he came home from what would pass for a shopping trip one day in 1851, and found his entire camp slaughtered by Mexican troops from Janos, Mexico. The dead included his mother Juana, wife Alope, and their three infant daughters. That Empire State Building sized horror, fell on one man all on the same day. So, you be the judge.

By 1884, he was in a bind. It became very difficult to recruit warriors from the reservations, as was the custom in earlier years. He even found himself competing with the US Cavalry for Apache men. The Army offered adult males jobs as scouts. Every scout was a warrior, but not every warrior became scouts. Those Army scouts were the albatross around his neck. They knew everything about him, the tribe and its refuges on both sides of the border. Every water hole, hiding place, arms cache, cave warehouses etc., were known to them. They would destroy winter stores piled up from summer operations in Mexico and Arizona/New Mexico. They essentially broke his back. By 1886, the pickings reached an all time low. He boiled down to 19 warriors; even resorted to child warriors. There were no bargaining chips left on the table from the 1884 talks. Geronimo was painted into a corner marked "unconditional surrender" ... When he finally handed over his rifle to General miles in September of 1886, there were only 38 people left in his band; half of them warriors. Deportation to Oklahoma, and what turned out to be a life sentence for him followed ...

The Chiricahuas served 27 years of incarceration 💔, before being released in 1913. It remains the longest confinement in US Military history ...

RIP Nantan Goyatle.

[clxwnslxt]

Haven’t seen any indigenous pride flags / rep flags so as an indigenous chiricahua apache, I decide to make some of my own ! free to use for any use,this is pt 1/2 because I have no self control ! multi use as an indigenous pride flag, or as a ur fav is indigenous flag

NOTE - please do not use this for personal use if you are not indigenous ie. for your profile pic or something of that sort. this was made by an indigenous person for the indigenous community as we’re really lacking in any sort of public positivity or pride in our heritage.

this is NOT a gender or sexuality flag. indigenous is not a gender or sexuality, I simply thought we deserve an intertribal flag to represent our heritage.