Apache Team

Profile managers: Robert Teague [send private message] and Native Americans Project WikiTree [send private message]

The Apache Team is part of the Native Americans project.

Team Leader: Eowyn Walker

About the Apache Team

This team is for members of the Native Americans Project who are researching and working on profiles of Apache individuals or who have an historic interest in Apache peoples. The scope of the team is pre-contact to present day.

How to Join

To join the project (updated June 2023):

1. First join the Native Americans Project; be sure to follow the "Project:Native_Americans#How_to_Join join" instructions.
2. If you are already a member of the project, ask the project leader Eowyn Walker to add the project badge if you do not already have it and let her know you are interested in joining the Apache Team
3. Add the line [[Category:Apache_Team]] to the text area of your profile page. This will add you to the list of participants on the Category Page.
4. Add "Native Americans" to your G2G tag feed.
5. Check out the To-Do list below to find something to help us work on
6. Please join the Google Mail Group for the WikiTree Native American Project

Team Goals

Any improvements you can make to Apache profiles are welcome. Specific team goals include:

• Adding new profiles of Apache not currently in the WikiTree.
• Identifying duplicate profiles and merging them into the lowest number.

• Improving profiles so they each have:
  • appropriate sticker or template displayed.
  • all relevant categories added.
  • at least one documented source.
  • a properly sourced, well-written narrative Biography, using the WikiTree Style Guide, that is cleaned up from any GEDOM junk, post-merge text clutter, formatting errors, etc.

• Identifying reliable resources for Apache genealogy and research and adding them to appropriate profiles or free-space pages.

Suggestion List

Here are some current "to-do list" needs, in no particular order:

1. Create or connect profiles for individual Apache appearing on the 1877 "Register of Southern Apache Indians" (National Archives Catalog)
2. Create or connect profiles for individuals named in Griswold's Fort Sill Apaches genealogy (see link below under History, Culture & Language)

Profiles Sticker

... was Apache.

Use the Native American Sticker for profiles not requiring Native Americans Project Protection.

To place the sticker add this code: {{Native American Sticker |tribe=Apache}}
below the ==Biography== line of the profile.

WikiTree Resources

Categories

• Use [[Category:Apache]] for adding profiles to the Apache Category

Some Notable Profiles

• Cochise
• Geronimo
• Gouyen
• Mangas Coloradas
• Victorio

Research Resources

The term Apache refers to six major Apache-speaking groups: Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Plains, and Western Apache. Historically, the term has also been applied to the Comanches, Mojaves, Hualapais, and Yavapais, none of whom speak Apache languages. The current division of Apachean groups includes the Western Apache, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan, Salinero, and Plains Apache.^[1]

• Apache research wiki - FamilySearch
• Native Americans Project Reliable Sources

Apache Tribal Entities

Visit these official tribal websites to learn more about history, culture and current organization:

• 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
• 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

Census Records

• 1877 "Register of Southern Apache Indians" - submitted 03 September 1877 by Agent J. M. Shaw via letter of transmittal to Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Heads of Families named. Digital images derived from NARA Microfilm Publication M234 - Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1881, Roll 572 - New Mexico Superintendency, 1849-1880: 1877 (P431-W1238), available online from National Archives Catalog (https://catalog.archives.gov/id/164179599), images 359-368.

Conflicts

Historical Information

• Wikipedia: Apache Wars
• Apache Wars lists 42 separate Apache Wars
• National Park Service, "The Apache Wars Part I: Cochise," at Chiricahua National Monument Arizona (https://www.nps.gov/chir/learn/historyculture/apache-wars-cochise.htm : accessed 20 May 2024), section "Stories."
• National Park Service, "The Apache Wars Part II: Geronimo", at Chiricahua National Monument Arizona (https://www.nps.gov/chir/learn/historyculture/apache-wars-geronimo.htm : accessed 28 November 2023), section "Stories."
• National Park Service, "The Battle of Apache Pass," at Fort Bowie National Historic Site Arizona (https://www.nps.gov/fobo/learn/historyculture/the-battle-of-apache-pass.htm : accessed 20 May 2024), section "History and Culture."

Military Records

• Index to Arizona Indian Scout Enlistments - NARA Catalog

History, Culture & Language

• Ball, Eve. “The Apache Scouts: A Chiricahua Appraisal.” Arizona and the West 7, no. 4 (1965): 315–28. Image copy. JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40167138.
• Ball, Eve, Nora Henn and Lynda Sanchez. Indeh, an Apache Odyssey. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1980. Digital image copy available for online lending from Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/indehapacheodyss0000ball/.
• Goodwin, Grenville and Keith H. Basso. The Social Organization of the Western Apache. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016. Image copy [open access] available at JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvwcjdm2 : accessed 20 May 2024.
• Griswold, Gillett (comp.). The Fort Sill Apaches: Their Vital Statistics, Tribal Origins, Antecedents. Manuscript. Fort Sill, Oklahoma: 1958-1961. Image copy. FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/302797 : downloaded 29 November 2023), FHL Film 928251, Item 8, begins at image 1013 of 1188.
• Hoijer, Harry. Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938. Image copy. HathiTrust. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001003146 [Public Domain Access].
• Johze, Benedict, "A Brief History of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe", Chronicles of Oklahoma, 39(4), Oklahoma Historical Society, 1961, pp. 427-432; image copy, The Gateway to Oklahoma History (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1760996/ : accessed 19 November 2024.
• Life among the Apaches: by John C. Cremony (San Francisco & New York: A. Roman & Company, 1868); image copy, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/lifeamongapaches00cremrich : accessed 25 May 2024).

Maps

• Apache-related maps digitized in National Archives Catalog
• Apache maps at Wikimedia Commons

Schools & Institutions

• Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center - comprehensive searchable database of records for Carlisle Indian School, where many of the Ft. Sill Apache children were sent following their imprisonment at Ft. Marion in Florida.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Apache