#jacrilla apache

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Geronimo was a leader and spiritual figure for the Bedonkohe band of the Chiricahua Apache people, known for his fierce resistance to Mexican and U.S. expansion in the American Southwest. His resistance began after a Mexican raid killed his family in 1858, and he became a legendary warrior, medicine man, and symbol of Apache defiance. Geronimo surrendered to U.S. forces in 1886 and spent the remainder of his life as a prisoner, though he became a famous figure and even met President Theodore Roosevelt ...

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The photograph titled "Jicarilla Maiden" by Edward S. Curtis was taken in 1907 ...

This image is a notable work by Edward S. Curtis, a renowned American photographer and ethnologist known for his extensive documentation of Native American life and cultures. The photograph captures a young Jicarilla Apache woman, adorned with traditional jewelry, including large hoop earrings and multiple strands of beaded necklaces ...

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JICARILLA APACHE ... 1886

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Chief James A. Garfield ...

This leader of the Jicarilla Apache Nation took the name Chief James Garfield after receiving a peace medal from President Garfield, and he later adopted the surname Velarde. In this studio portrait—taken twelve years after his people were relocated to a reservation—he wears a mix of Euro-American clothing and Native regalia: a white collared shirt and a waistcoat, a fur sash decorated with conchos, shell ear ornaments, and a shell necklace. The image was published by the Detroit Photographic Company, which Jackson joined in 1897. It was widely reproduced on postcards and in albums using the Photochrom process, in which black-and-white negatives are converted to color images using photolithography.

Jicarilla Apache chief James A. Garfield Velarde was born around C. 1853

and passed away in 1961. ...

He was chief of the Jicarilla Apache tribe from 1886

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Jicarilla Apache Chief James A. Garfield, 1899. Photo by William Henry Jackson ... This leader of the Jicarilla Apache Nation took the name Chief James Garfield after receiving a peace medal from President Garfield, and he later adopted the surname Velarde ... C. 1899 Photo by William Henry Jackson.

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