Coyote proves himself a Cannibal

Apache

Owl was the one who had arrows. He had a club also with which he killed men whom he ate. "Up at the low gap I am watching for men, wu hwu wo," he sang. Coyote came walking along in front of him. " Wu hwu wo," sang Owl, " I am looking for men in the low gap." The two came face to face there. "Now," said Owl, "the one who vomits human flesh will kill men."... "Very well," said Coyote, "shut your eyes." Owl shut his eyes. When he vomited, Coyote put his hand under and took the meat. The grasshoppers which Coyote vomited he put in Owl's hand.
"Now open your eyes," said Coyote. Owl looked and saw the grasshoppers lying in his hand. Coyote showed him the meat. "What did I tell you," said Coyote, "this is the meat I threw up." "Where did I drink in the grasshoppers?" said Owl. Coyote ran all around Owl. "Because I run fast like this I eat people," said Coyote". These legs of yours are too large, I will fix them for you. Shut your eyes”.
Coyote cut Owl's leg, trimming away the meat. He broke his leg with a stone and took the arrows away leaving him only the club. Coyote ran around Owl who threw his club at him. He would say, "Come back, my club," and it would come back to him. He threw it again. Coyote said, “Wherever a stick falls when one throws it there it will lie."
The club did not return to Owl. "Now you will live right here in the canyon where many arrows will be in front of you. Somebody might kill you," Coyote told him. Owl hitched himself along into the canyon. "Arrows painted black may kill you," said Coyote.
Coyote went around in front of him and shot him with his own (Owl's) arrows. After that everybody was afraid of Coyote, who went around killing off the people.

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How do you pronounce the word "Apache"?

 What does it mean?

Apache is pronounced "uh-PAH-chee." It means "enemy".

Photo: Edward S. Curtis-1907-"Apache Scout"

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Where do the Apaches live?

Photo: Edward S.Curtis-1907-"Apache Indian

(The North American Indian; v.01)"

The Apache are natives of the Southwest deserts (particularly in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas). Some Apache people were also located across the border in northern Mexico. One Apache band, the Na'ishan or Plains Apache, lived far away from the other Apaches, in what is now Oklahoma. Their customs were different from other Apaches, more similar to their Kiowa neighbors.... For that reason, the Americans often called the Na'ishan "Kiowa-Apaches."
The Plains Apaches are still living in Oklahoma today. Some Apaches from other bands were captured and sent to live in Oklahoma by the Americans in the 1800's, while other Apaches resisted being moved and remain in Arizona and New Mexico today. The total Apache Indian population today is around 30,000.

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How is the Apache Indian nation organized?

How is the Apache Indian nation organized?

The different Apache tribes in the United States, today lives on its own reservation. Reservations are lands that belong to Indian tribes and are under their control. The Oklahoma Apaches live on trust land. Each Apache tribe has its own government, laws, police, and services, just like a small country. However, the Apaches are also US citizens and must ...obey American law.

In the past, each Apache band was led by its own chief, who was chosen by a tribal council. Most important decisions were made by the council, and all the Apache councilmembers had to agree before an action could be taken. An Apache chief was more like a tribal chairman than a president. Most of his job was mediating between other Apaches. Most Apache tribes still use tribal councils for their government today.

Contemporary Apache groups

Apachean tribes ca. 18th century: WA – Western Apache, N – Navajo, Ch – Chiricahua, M – Mescalero, J – Jicarilla, L – Lipan, Pl – Plains Apache
The following Apache tribes are federally recognized:
Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Arizona
Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico
Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico
San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona[4]
Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona
White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona
Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona
Jicarilla are headquartered in Dulce, New Mexico while the Mescalero are headquartered in Mescalero, New Mexico. The Western Apache, located in Arizona, is divided into several reservations, which crosscut cultural divisions. The Western Apache reservations include the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, Yavapai-Apache Nation, Tonto-Apache Reservation, and Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation.

Young Jicarilla Apache boy, New Mexico, 2009

Present-day primary locations of Apachean peoples
The Chiricahua were divided into two groups after they were released from being prisoners of war. The majority moved to the Mescalero Reservation and form, with the larger Mescalero political group, the Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Apache Reservation, along with the Lipan Apache. The other Chiricahua are enrolled in the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, headquartered in Apache, Oklahoma.
The Plains Apache are located in Oklahoma, headquartered around Anadarko and are federally recognized as the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma.

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Did you know?

Did you know?

Mary Kim Titla (born November 24, 1960) in 1987 became the first Native American television journalist in Arizona.

Photo: Mary Kim Titla in her Native buckskin dress

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What language do the Apache Indians speak?

What language do the Apache Indians speak?

Almost all Apache people speak English today, but many Apaches also speak their native Apache language, which is closely related to Navajo. Apache is a complex language with tones and many different vowel sounds. Most English speakers find it very difficult to pronounce. If you'd like to know a few easy Apache words, "ash" (rhymes with 'gosh') means "friend" in Western Apache, and "ahéhe'e" (pronounced similar to ah-heh-heh-eh) means "thank you."

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Geronimo [Goyathlay], Chiracahua Apache

"As a child my mother taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and stars, the clouds and storms. She also taught me to kneel and pray to Usen for strength, health, wisdom, and protection. We never prayed against any person, but if we had aught against any individual we ourselves took vengeance. We were taught that Usen does not care for the petty quarrels of men."

- Geronimo [Goyathlay], Chiracahua Apache

Geronimo. Born June, 1829. Member of the Bedonkohe Apache tribe in No-doyohn Canon, Arizona, near present day Clifton, Arizona. Was called Goyathlay (One Who Yawns.)

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Eddie Two Moons

Eddie brings the strength of his beliefs, his commitment to Apache values of respect and tradition, and a humble devotion to the gift entrusted to him by the Creator. In his hands, metals and stones are imbued with purpose.

Eddie is half-Apache from his mother and grew up in Albuquerque, far from the Chiricahua tribe. In the early 1970's, he wandered farther, spiritually, from the Apache, when he... did piecework for a local jewelry manufacturer. Working in plastic casts and copper, incorporating Apache symbols of life and religion, his own disrespect slowly ate away at his creativity and heart. Apache medicine man, Robert Eaglehawk, offered a path back to honor. Eddie had to quit the piecework and also stop using Apache symbols in his work for one life: 30 years. With this sacrifice, he could redeem himself.

This Eddie did, devoting himself to other work and to raising a family. When the time came, the passion and dedication building inside Eddie flowed from his heart through his veins and into his hands which held the metals and stones.

When Eddie was married, Robert Eaglehawk cut four pieces of skin from Eddie's arms to give back to the Creator. Robert said, "You can't give him money. He owns everything anyway. All you can give him is of yourself." The four pieces of skin were placed in the four sacred directions.

Eddie says, "My motivation comes from these events and my sincerity is based on my respect for the Apache tradition."

In 1982, Eddie was the first Native American graduate of the Gemological Institute of America. Now, over twenty years later, he was among the invited few to participate in the Native Nation Procession in 2004 for the ceremonial grand opening of the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian in D.C.

What a wonderful, inspiring journey Eddie has taken. As a child, he really had no mentor, yet a talent burned inside him. Alone, he picked up jewelry tools and taught himself the skills to bring his visions to life in metal. But any craftsman will tell you that talent is not enough to sustain. Desire is not enough. Even determination and passion are not enough. These emotions are too fiery and combustible. An artist's creations are nurtured by the humblest of attitudes: vulnerability. A defenseless quest for the truth about one's self and the world.

Eddie's name, Two Moons, represents the two worlds: the one we live in and the other the spiritual world. He says, "I live in the physical world, but my heart lives in the spiritual realm," where we believe our Creator and his expectations on how to live our life gift that he has given us.

"I rise and exit into a make-believe place, where I once again try to create balance. It is my purpose here." Eddie's jewelry resonates with spiritual commitment. See More

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Isabelle Perico Enjady

Isabelle Perico Enjady, in a puberty dress. Chiricahua Apache, daughter of Perico, prisoner of war (POW), Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Picture taken between 1887-1914.

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Chief White Mountain

Alchise, 1853-1928, Chief White Mountain Apache (Western Apache). Indian Scout (Sergeant). Medal of Honor. By Edward S. Curtis, 1906 (colorized).

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Alchesay, White Mountain Apache

Alchesay, White Mountain Apache. Scout for General Crook. Circa 1882. Chief Alchesay won the Medal of Honor for extreme bravery in the Apache Wars.

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Beautiful daughter of Geronimo c.1900. - Lena Geronimo

Geronimo’s Daughter Lenna~~Beautiful daughter of Geronimo c.1900. - Lena Geronimo was born in 1886 in Fort Marion, St. Augustine, FL while her father was a prisoner there. The medical staff gave her the name Marion, after the fort, but she took the name Lenna upon returning to the Southwest. Lenna Geronimo, the daughter of Geronimo and wife Ih-tedda, a Mescalero Apache, was the full sister of Robert Geronimo, Geronimo's only living son. Lenna was Bedonkohe-Mescalero.
















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Warrior Woman Dahteste

Did you know?

Warrior Woman Dahteste (pronounced ta-DOT-say) Mescalero Apache

Dahteste is described as a very beautiful woman who took great pride in her appearance and, even though, she married and had children, she chose the life of the warrior. No one challenged Dahteste lightly for it was widely known that she could outride, outshoot, out-hunt, out-run, and out-fight her peers, male and fema...le, and she did so with grace. She was credited as being courageous, daring and skillful, and she took part in battles and raiding parties alongside her husband, and a good friend of her family, Geronimo.
Fluent in English, Dahteste became a trusted scout, messenger and mediator between her people and the U.S. Cavalry. Along with another woman Apache warrior named Lozen, Dahteste was instrumental in the final surrender of Geronimo to the U.S. Government and, as thanks for her efforts on their behalf, she was imprisoned with Geronimo and shipped to prison with his remaining followers. Dahteste was as strong in her personal spirit as her warrior spirit, and she survived both tuberculosis and pneumonia while imprisoned. Both diseases killed untold thousands of Natives across the land, but not Dahteste.
After 8 years in the Florida prison, Dahteste was shipped to the military prison at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. After 19 years at Ft. Sill, she was finally given permission to return to her homeland. She lived the balance of her life on the Mescalero Apache Reservation until she died there of old age.

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Apache Sunrise Ceremony

The Apache Sunrise Ceremony celebrates a girl becoming a woman. Girls prepare for the ritual for six months or more. During the ceremony, which can last four days, the girls sing, pray, run, and dance, often for hours without stopping. Here, a girl from the White Mountain Apache tribe in Arizona is blessed with pollen, symbolizing fertility.

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AMERICA'S THROW AWAY INDIAN PROJECT

AMERICA'S THROW AWAY INDIAN

BY

JULIE C BLASER

 Copyright: Julie C Blaser 2011

Entry # 1
Published Rough draft for Copyright purposes
 May20, 2017

Tillamook, Oregon
A Personal  Account of Duality; The Struggle Of One Woman Fighting Being Erased; A Record of Her Circumstance, Her Story About The Truth, Her Truth,  History Surrounding This Indigenous Woman Of The North American Continent, The Contrast Of What You Were Taught In The American Educational System and The Truth.

This project will be a series of short entries.  Consider this project my invitation to all persons interested in conversations of how the 1960"scoop era has impacted my life.  I encourage Indigenous persons to contribute their experience and stories to America's Throw Away Indian Project (#ATAIP).  My aim is to deconstruct stereotypes.  My goal is to create a safe platform for conversations with White people specifically, but non- Indigenous/people in general, to eradicate the stereotypes and rebuild belief systems.  A lofty goal, I know.  Many established projects currently exist.  One may ask, why another project?  Creating a safe platform for readers, and Indigenous persons, who are ready to cultivate a safe platform for connecting and recovering the truth.  I say there can not be too many of these beacons and spiritual axioms.   

This is my memorial.  This is my account of being a survivor of the 1960s Scoop era.  In the pages of #ATAIP, I hope you learn what I feel as an Indigenous woman who has spent decades searching for my voice.  It has been a grueling journey wracked with pain, a profound sense of feeling lost, and feeling alone.  This is a stark contrast to the romantic images Hollywood created with "Dances With Wolves."  That movie, in particular, is what ignited in me fiery anger and the need to tell the world this Native woman's real account of history as I lived it.  

  I really hope others will contribute their stories to my #ATAIP and build an authentic history freely accessible to generations to come. I am the first generation off the Rez and I am first-generation American.  I am the first generation, blah, blah, blah.  The pieces will somehow be woven into my masterpiece as I free write my feelings, thoughts, and story which is altogether what built the divine sister you see in my picture and read in my accounts of being a Native woman at the turn of the 21st century.  I wholeheartedly believe my experience holds historical value. Maybe it will be generations from now, maybe never, but my story will be available for use to understand how the US and Canadian government "killed the Indian and saved the man" and what it looks like on my skin and in my eyes, it is an unmistakable wound in my soul.   

I am a layperson and have not one certificate, license, or accreditation.  I will make no claim to be a spokesperson for my nation or for Indigenous people.  I do not own the cornerstone of spirituality because I am Lake Cowichan First Nation (#LCFN).  I am not romantic.  I am most times hostile or depressed.  I laugh and crack dark jokes.  I use sarcasm aimed at you.  I punish myself for not being enough and take pride in the beautiful skin I wear.  I love my hair and eyes but hate my body.   Do you understand the foundation of the disparity I am laying? 

I want to be very clear with my readers this is my story and it will be recorded spontaneously and it will be messy and heartfelt.  I might not make sense some days.  I don't give a shit. Everyone I've met my entire life has said I should write a book about my life story.  My children demanded I write a book about my life.  Here it goes.  One must understand one more thing.  Where did I come up with "America's Throw Away Indian Project (#ATAIP)??  I guess that is as good a place as any to start   So from today forth, you will begin to understand how I was thrown away.   

My next entry will officially begin with "The Garbage Can."

Final note:It has been my experience, Non-Indigenous people have many questions.  It is scary to ask these questions. They want answers.  Collectively, we can fund harmony and demand the truth be taught to our children.  With modern games, movies, phone apps, our modern children are quite capable of handling the truth. It's time to rebuild and reclaim our history.

To submit comments, ask questions, add your story, suggest edits for my content please, please, please use the comment section below.  Share my blog post.  Contact me through FB, (NO hit me ups, no snaggin, no trolls move the fuck forward if you do not believe in the Indigenous Holocaust, we will never get along or see eye to eye, you will never be a part of my story ever again.)  

For today, this is all I will write.  Next time, "The garbage can"
"America's Throw Away Indian Projects."

 Author:  Julie C Blaser

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