Apache

Mountain Apache tribe in Arizona. To the Apache people, lands are not just private properties that are bought and sold. Land to the Apache hold a great deal of influence. The land also is the greatest tie the modern Apache have with their ancestors. Throughout the Wisdom Sits in Places reading, one can learn how the Apache uses land names to tell stories, teach lessons, and acts as life’s guide to live the Apache way. The Apache people revere their land. The book gives examples how the Apache…

One of the most famous leaders from the Apache tribe is Geronimo. After the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Anglo-Americans set limits on where the Apaches could live. Geronimo and the Apache had other ideas. Geronimo was one of the most famous leaders from the one of the many Apache tribes. He was the leader of the Chiricahua Apaches Indians. “He defended his land and people from attacks by settlers and soldiers in Mexico and southwestern United States during the 1870’s…

Fort Bowie played an important part in the wars with the Chiricahua Apache in year 1861. Lieutenant George Bascom confronted Cochise in a confrontation that lasted over twenty-five years in bloody conflicts between the Apache and the U.S. Army. General James H. Carleton, who founded the Fort, lead an army eastward in 1862 to check the Confederate offensive in New Mexico. A battle occurred when Cochise and his allies ambushed the soldiers but the soldiers ended up being victorious. Fort Bowie…

Europeans on the Apache Indians Before Christopher Columbus, European explorer who founded America, founded the Americas, the Native Americans thrived and nourished the land. They had created a housing, government, and religion. They didn’t have the same concepts as the Europeans. The Apache had a unique and civilized way of life until the Europeans came. They had changed their daily life, their culture. Not all changes were bad. It was a mixture of bad and improvements. The Apaches…

According to the Native American historian Ward Churchill, who analyzed Native Americans in film around the 1930s, there were three typical patterns in which Native Americans were depicted in the era preceding WWII. Churchill contended that the three themes consistently implied that Native Americans are primitive beings, that they lack significant history, and that all Native Americans were the same. Although these stereotypes were common for Native Americans in the 1930s, these patterns were…

Overview First World Bank Savings and Loan will be switching to an open source infrastructure to support its new online initiative. A projected savings of $4 million in license fees alone is not the only benefit we as a company will enjoy. The ease of access to clients to use online banking transactions and loan applications will increase customer satisfaction. Problem The task team has identified these servers as essential to provide the online services we want to offer. A database server,…

remains a secret. The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine is filled with mystery and millions of dollars worth of gold that everyone wants a piece of. The real mystery lies behind why the Lost Dutchman has never been found. There have been suspicions on if the Apache Indians have guarded it with a curse, if the map displays the correct information, or if someone secretly took the gold and never told anyone so the legend could continue. In the 1870s, Jacob Waltz, also known as "the Dutchman" was said to…

Geronimo was a prominent leader of the Chiricahua Apache Tribe and the leader of the Apache Wars. He is famous for taking his men with him and going rogue as well as being a known “celebrity” after the wars. Throughout his life he battled for the right to Indian Land. Geronimo fought against the Reservation System and continued to fight and flee until the Closing of the Frontier, when this came into effect Geronimo surrendered. Geronimo explains that the white men came into their existence…

construction of a “place-world” as culture activity. He highlighted that “we are, in a sense, the place-worlds we imagine” (Basso 1996: 7). They can either have descriptive names or commemorative names. Just as specific places are meaningful to the Western Apache, such as “Big Cottonwood Trees Stand Here And There,” “Coarse-Textured Rocks Lie Above In A Compact Cluster,” and “Men Stand Above Here And There,” the Wardroom of NROTC at CU Boulder is a specific place that is meaningful to me and…

In a small village in Tippecanoe Indiana, there was a mother who was about to birth a set of twins. The mother's name was Cheyenne and the two boys names were Apache and Shoshone. Their father, Cherokee, was the leader of the Iroquois tribe. A couple of days had past and the two boys, Apache and Shoshone were born. The two brothers were always challenging each other since day one. If one started to crawl the other tried to walk before him, the two boys would always wrestle and fight and it…