“Naiche”
Spraypaint on Canvas
5x4 ft.
(SOLD)
Naiche, Cochise’s son, assumed leadership of the Chiricahua and continued the resistance against the government of broken promises. By 1886, only Naiche and Geronimo with thirty-six men, women, and children remained to fight. Five thousand soldiers, which represented one-fourth of the U.S. military at the time, were unable to capture them. These Apache warriors ultimately agreed to terms of surrender. The Chiricahua were transported by train to join 469 other Apaches being held as prisoners in Florida. The government did not keep its promise of a temporary exile. As months turned into years, Geronimo said, “All we want is to be fed and be released as prisoners and given land and homes that we can call our own.” They remained exiled for twenty-seven years; they were not released until 1913. These Apache were held as prisoners of war longer than any other people in U.S. history.
“Dahtaste”
Spraypaint on Canvas
5x4 ft.
(SOLD)
Dahteste was fluent in English and acted as messenger and translator for the Apache. After nineteen years of imprisonment at Fort Sill, Dahteste lived out the rest of her life at Whitetail on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico. She married a former Apache Scout named Kuni, dressed traditionally and refused to speak English. She was known to others as “Old Mrs. Coonie” until her death in 1955.
“Victorio”
Spraypaint on Canvas
5x4 ft.
(SOLD)
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.
“Lozen”
Spraypaint on Canvas
5x4 ft.
(SOLD)
She could ride, shoot and had a gift for strategy. Lozen’s talents soon became the stuff of legend. Whenever the Apache needed to know how to plan an attack, she seemingly had a supernatural ability to predict where the enemy was going to be and she would often pray to the Apache’s highest deity, Ussen.
