..He was the leader of an Apache Band in the late 1800's. A Warm Spring Apache from Arizona, but he and his band ran all through Arizona, New Mexico, West Texas and Mexico. His band was one of the last in the Indian Wars here in the southwest. A great military minded man..The soldiers couldn't catch him..He was killed by a Mescalero scout in a mountain range called the Pillars in Mexico.. His people cut his body up and carried it in many different directions so the Army wouldn't see him. His sister was a "Seer" and a Healer.
I will have to research him, Interesting... If he was with one of the last Apache tribes to be herded into Florida, he was most likely Chiricahua Apache.. Same as Geronimo.. Geronimo was the last to be captured..
No, he was never hered to Florida..the only reservstion he went to was in Ozo, Arizona., but he joined his tribe there for just a short while., of his own free will. He left there and with the help of his sister..raided and fought mostly in West Texas and Mexico. The military could never catch him..he actually was better at planning his battles than the army. He swore neer to be taken by the military and he never was.
Most of the Indians in the Southwest turned into Mexicans, after the battle at Black Mountain North of Van Horn, Texas is the early 1900's. It was better for them to fade into Mexicans than go to the reservations.
The Tijua Mescaleros were hated by the Apachies, because they became scouts for the Army and one stabbed Victorio in a fight at the Pillars..He died from that fight, but it was speculated that one of his band actually killed him, because he was so severily injured and could not travel. That's were the story of them dismembering him came from...any way the army never captured him.
Hmmm... I found a different version on Wiki... Seems he was with Geronimo for awhile...
I really wouldn't say that anyone "turned into Mexxicans" though... The Mexicans were responsible for a LOT of deaths to Native people.. ONe examplke, is that they lured all the men out of Geronimo's settlement on the premise of doing a freindly trade..., then sent their soilders around the other way.., who killed all of the woman and childfren remaining there... Geronimo lost two children, his first wife & his mother, in that one raid..
Here's another version about Victorio... I do remember him now, as I looked back through the book: Geronimo: My life.., last evening.. (I'm terrible with names... everything else I can clearly remember.., back to less than two months of age)..:
Biography: VICTORIO
Victorio grew up in the Chihenne band. There is speculation that he or his band had Navajo kinship ties and was known among the Navajo as "he who checks his horse". Victorio's sister was the famous woman warrior Lozen, or the "Dextrous Horse Thief".
In 1853 he was considered a chief or sub chief by the United States Army and signed a document. In his twenties, he rode with Geronimo and other Apache leaders. As was the custom, he became the leader of a band of ....Chiricahuas....... and Mescaleros and fought against the United States Army.
From 1870 to 1880, Victorio and his band were moved to and left at least three different reservations, some more than once, despite his band's request to live on traditional lands. The Ojo Caliente reservation was located in their traditional territory. Victorio and his band were moved to San Carlos Reservation in Arizona Territory in 1877. He and his followers left the reservation twice before but came back only to leave permanently in late August 1879 which started Victorio's War. Victorio was successful at raiding and evading capture by the military, he won a significant engagement at Las Animas Canyon on September 18, 1879.
In April, 1880, Victorio was credited with leading the Alma Massacre – a raid on United States settlers' homes around Alma, New Mexico. During this event, several settlers were killed. Victorio's warriors were finally driven off with the arrival of American soldiers from Fort Bayard. However, Victorio continued his campaign with the attack on Fort Tularosa.[1]
In October 1880, while moving along the Rio Grande in northern Mexico, Victorio and his band were surrounded and killed ........by soldiers of the Mexican Army......... under Mauricio Corredor in the Tres Castillos Mountains (29.96667°N 105.78333°W),[2] in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Some women and children escaped but were sent with ......Geronimo...... to Florida, Alabama and Oklahoma.
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jagbird
on Wed 07/24/13 09:17 AM
