Victorio and Lozen

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Góyą́ń (Gouyen), “The one who is wise". Gouyen was a 19th-century Apache woman notable for her heroism. She was the mother of Apache leader James Kaywaykla and the aunt of S**i Toklanni. Born the mountains of New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness near Silver City in 1857, she was of the Red Paint People, the band of Chief Victorio, los Mimbreños, or Warm Springs Apache. She was friends with Lozen and Victorio. These were the Chihenne Apache.
Gouyen began her battle experiences when she was a young woman with two children. On October 14, 1880, after a particularly arduous foray into Mexico, the group of Apaches rested at Tres Castillos in northern Mexico, part of their usual territory. Unexpectedly, armed Mexican soldiers attacked killing seventy-eight Apaches; sixty-eight women and children were captured to be sold into slavery (a common means of disposing of prisoners of war), and the livestock taken totaled 120 horses, 38 mules, and 12 burros. Only seventeen Apaches escaped the slaughter, two of whom were Gouyen and her four year old son, Kaywaykla. A baby daughter was killed. Gouyen’s husband at the time was elsewhere, but he also died soon afterward, brutally killed and mutilated during a Comanche raid on another Apache group that Gouyen and her family had joined for safety after the Tres Castillos assault.
A legendary tale is told about the revenge of Gouyen, Wise Woman.
Gouyen's first husband was killed in a Comanche raid in the 1870s; her heroic actions to avenge her husband's death are legendary in Apache oral history. She tracked the Comanche chief who scalped her husband, to his camp. She found the chief watching a Victory Dance around a bonfire with her husband's scalp hanging from his belt. After donning a buckskin puberty ceremony dress and walked away from camp in the darkness one night, carrying a water jug and dried meat stored in a pouch at her waist. For three nights she followed the Comanche trail, and on the fourth discovered their camp. They were celebrating, and bonfires blazed with the heat of the Comanche victory over the Apaches, where she saw her husband’s bloody scalp in the Comanche chief’s possession. Gouyen slipped into the circle of dancers, eventually seducing the drunken chief to a secluded spot. After a struggle, she stabbed the Comanche to death with his own knife, and then scalped him and removed his beaded breechcloth and moccasins. Stealing a horse, Gouyen rode triumphantly back to her camp, presenting her in-laws with the Comanche leader's scalp and clothing as evidence of her revenge.
Gouyen's second marriage was to an Apache warrior named Kaytennae, who also escaped during the Battle of Tres Castillos. Afterward, Kaytennae was a member of Nana and Geronimo's band during the early 1880s and was involved with their escape from the San Carlos Reservation in 1883. During their maneuvers evading capture, Gouyen once saved Kaytennae's life by killing a man trying to ambush him. In 1886, Gouyen and her family were taken prisoner by the U.S. Army along with others in Geronimo's band and were ultimately held at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where she died in 1903. Much has been lost to the world with her passing. Gouyen was a hero and a great woman warrior.

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Dear members of the ‘Nde, the People, the Apache’ group! I propose to discuss your favorite books about the history and culture of the Apache Indians. Feel free to share your impressions of these books and tell us why you enjoy studying the Apache Indians.
Personally, I am most interested in the history of Chiricahua Apaches, a little less the history of the Western Apaches, then Mescalero Apaches. But the history of Jicarilla Apaches was never interested. I do not know why. Perhaps because the history of Chiricahua is most detailed in the books. But there is much less information on Tonto Apaches ' history. Because of the Tonto Apaches, I am also interested in the history of Yavapai Indians.

My first book “about Indians” was James Fenimore Cooper 's novel The Last of the Mohicans (9 years old). Very boring and many descriptions of nature. Then, many years later, I learned that there was such a trend in American literature - Romanticism. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown was my first book “about Apaches” (12 years old). Just two chapters! My first real books on the history of apache are Thrapp Victorio and Ball In the days of Victorio (22 years old). Chihenne and only until 1880.

So here's my personal book rating (Only four because it's a sacred number):

1. Edwin Sweeney 'From Cochise to Geronimo'

2. Grenville Goodwin ‘The Social Organization of the Western Apache’

3. Henrietta Stockel ‘Shame and Endurance’

4. Angie Debo ‘Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place’

First hand books:

1. Eve Ball 'Inde'

2. Eve Ball ‘Victorio’

3. Jason Betzinez ’ I Fought with Geronimo’

4. Goodwin, Basso 'Western Apache Raiding and Warfare'

There is only one book about the history of the Yavapai:

1. Braatz, Timothy, Surviving Conquest: a history of the Yavapai peoples.

And

2,3. Anthropological works by E. W. Gifford, Edward Northeastern and Western Yavapai (1936) and The Southeastern Yavapai (1932)

4. One first hand book by Mike Burns, The Only One Living to Tell: The Autobiography of a Yavapai Indian.

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I was born...where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun...When Usen created the Apaches, he also gave them their homes in the West. He gave them such grain, fruits and game as they needed to eat... and all they needed for clothing and shelter was at hand. Thus it was in the beginning; the Apaches and their homes, each created for the other. When they are taken from their homes they sicken and die.
-- Geronimo, Apache warrior

Martine was a Nednhi and member of Juh's band. Although the Apaches were friendly with the Mexican People, when Martine was a small boy he was captured by Mexican soldiers, who continued their quest to harass Apaches. He was sold to a family, elderly and well-to-do, who lived on a rancho near Casas Grandes, Mexico. This couple had never had a child and they became deeply attached to the boy. They had him call them mother and father and took him to church and baptized as a Catholic. They gave him the name after St. Martine.
Martin's owner/father became very ill and knew he would soon die. He wanted to provide for the boy. He gave Martine a good mount and a pack horse, food, blankets, and paper, saying that he was no longer a slave. He took Martine to Casas Grandes to the home of a friend and arranged that when Juh or other tribe members came to the trading post, as usual, he would reunite with his beloved people."My father (Martine) was so efficient and so loyal to Juh that he became his personal assistant - a sort of orderly..."
Martine grew to manhood and married. He did not want to go on the warpath, nor did he want his wife and children to have to do so. He wished to live in peace. On a trip to Arizona he enlisted as a scout at Fort Apache. He knew well how the scouts were disliked by their people, who regarded them as traitors, but he knew too, that his wife and children could live at the fort and be protected. He was very much influenced in his decision by the fact that Kayitah was a scout. He had know Kayitah before being captured by the Soldados Mexicanos, and the two were close friends all their entire lives.
Miles promised these two, "If you come back alive and Geronimo surrenders, I will have the government give you a good home at Turkey Creek (20 miles north of Silver City) and there you will have plenty of good water, grass, and game. Everything you need will be furnished for you. And the government will give you seventy thousand dollars! You will get the money as soon as Geronimo surrenders and you get back."
Niether Martine nor Kayitah had any idea of what $70,000 was-just that it was a big sum. They had no use for money but they wanted a home at Turkey Creek where they could live peacefully. They had not asked for money, but because Miles promised it, they looked for it until they died. They never got it.

Apache Chief Naiche and Geronimo at Ft. Bowie, Arizona. Photo by A.F. Randall, 1886.

This is Jim Thorpe. Look closely at the photo, you can see that he's wearing different socks and shoes. This was not a fashion statement. It was the 1912 Olympics, and Jim, a Native American from Oklahoma represented the U.S. in track and field. On the morning of his competitions, his shoes were stolen. Luckily, Jim ended up finding two shoes in a garbage bin. That's the pair that he's wearing in the photo. But one of the shoes was too big, so he had to wear an extra sock. Wearing these shoes, Jim won two gold medals. Just a reminder that no weapon formed against you shall prosper. Whatever you woke up with this morning; stolen shoes, ill health, failed relationships, don't let it stop you from running your race. God aims for you to win despite what the enemy throws at you!

Geronimo. Apache. 1905. Photo by Edward S. Curtis.

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Apache scouts "drinking tiswin". 1888. Photo by Miller.

We are related, the Apaches are also a matriarchal society. Lozen was our true leader after the death of her brother Victorio even all the credit is given to Geronimo. Lozen, warrior, midwife and leader of the Chiracuhua Chihene Red Paint Apache Nation.

Women are the real heads of our households...strong, smart(er), fierce as heck yet gentle. We are proud that Mongolia has one of the best traditions of gender equality dating back to the Queens of the Mongol Khans. Here's to our everyday queens.

This is the truth. To live with Power is very challenging. It’s so potent you must be wary. To have Power is a great responsibility. You can choose to leave it alone or accept it. It’s up to you. Power is everywhere, it lives in everything. It might be known through a word, or come in the shape of an animal. We all have Power, but some tap into different rooms. Power speaks to those who listen." - Apache elder Ellyn Bigrope

Salinas Peak (near White Sands, New Mexico), the highest in the San Andreas Range, is our Sacred Mountain. To it our medicine men go, not only for herbs, but for that far more efficacious instrument of healing which we call Power.
Just what that Power is, I cannot explain, for it is beyond my comprehension. Those who seek it go alone that they may be tested for worthiness. It is a gift to be bestowed not only for virtue, but for prayer and courage. If the applicant bravely endures hunger, fear, and other tests of which we do not speak, he may receive a healing art, usually for some specific illness. Or he may be given the ability to do some seemingly impossible things such as the Power possessed by Lozen.
When Victorio wished to know the location of the enemy, Lozen stood with outstretched arms, palms up, and prayed to Ussen. As she turned slowly, following the sun, her hands tingled and the palms changed color when they pointed toward the foe. The intensity of the sensation indicated the approximate distance of the enemy. The closer the adversary, the more vivid the feeling. Time after time I have seen her stand thus to ascertain the direction and proximity of the pursuers. I have always believed, along with many other Apaches, that if Lozen, the prophet of the Chihenne Apache, been with us at Tres Castillos, her brother (Victorio) would never have ridden into the trap of the Mexican calvary.
Victorio said, "Lozen is my right hand... strong as a man, braver than most, and cunning in strategy. Lozen is a shield to her people."

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Kiowa boys. ca.1890. Fort Sill, Indian Territory. Photo by H.P. Robinson. Source - Southern Methodist University Library, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas photo collection.

Geronimo. Apache. 1888-1889. Photo by Reed & Wallace. Source - Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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