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chief of the Mimbreno Chiricahua, was whipped, an act that resulted in his life-long enmity against white men. Though his nephew Cochise had long resisted fighting Americans, in 1861 he too, was betrayed by white men and turned against them. Together, Mangas Coloradas and Cochise ravaged much southern New Mexico and Arizona , until Mangas was wounded in 1862, captured and killed in January 1863, allegedly while trying to escape from Fort McLane , New Mexico . Upon the death of his uncle, Cochise became principal chief of the Apaches. http://www.desertusa.com/magfeb98/feb_pap/du_apache.html January 18, 1863 "The soldiers who murdered him treacherously buried his body in a shallow grave," Daklugie told Eve Ball. "The next day they dug it up, cut his head off, and boiled it to remove the flesh. Then they sent the skull to the Smithsonian Institution." "The killing of an unarmed man who has gone to an enemy under truce was an incomprehensible act," James Kaywaykla told Eve Ball during an interview for In the Days of Victorio, "but infinitely worse was the mutilation of his body… Little did the White Eyes know how they would pay when they defiled the body of our great chief!" |
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