COCHISE: TIME ,PEOPLE, AND CULTURE
BOOK OUTLINE
Chapter I: The Landscape and Geography: Desert, Mesas, Mountains, Flora/ Fauna with emphasis on desert plants, herbs, animals as well as discussion of paleo-Indians, Mongollan, Anasazi and Pueblo
Chapter II: Arrival of Apaches: Creation Story, Cultural values, social organization, philosophy of governance, leadership, bands /divisions, the Chiricahuas, warrior culture.
Chapter III: Spanish/ Mexican Presence: Coronado and 7 Cities of Gold, horse/cattle/sheep, Santa Fe/New Spain, Padres and Missions, Apaches relationships with Spanish/Mexican, a Raiding economy.
Chapter IV: Cochise: Child hood/adolescences, becoming a leader, royal bloodline, death of the Father, Mangas Coloradas, Mexican - American War, shifting boundaries, miners/prospectors, Apacheria under threat, dealing with White Eye Americans, Butterfield Line.
Chapter V: War( 1861-65): Bascom Affair, avenging family, Fort Bowie, Battle of Apache Pass, Civil War, new war strategies, death of Mangas Coloradas, apparent victory over Americans, White flight from Apacheria, consolidating victories, emergence of Victoria, Juh, Lozen and Geronimo.
Chapter VI: War of Attrition (1865-72): The American return, new Washington program: reservations, acculturalization, ethnic cleansing, series of Forts, life becomes hard, war of attrition, Cochise on the run, pitting bands against bands, the use of Apache scouts, Crook, “the Grey Fox”, no way out.
Chapter VII. Looking for peace, mysterious Tom Jeffords, crossing cultures, “blood brothers”; Grant administration, 1872 Camp Grant Massacre, Cushing and Juh, Coyler’s Peace Initiative, General Otis Howard, Cochise agrees to meet, creation of Chiricahuas reservation, Jeffords' agent.
Chapter VIII. Cochise death, 1874, Taza emerges, Jeffords' fights to preserve the reservation, dissolved and Chiricahuas forced to settle at San Carlos, Geronimo and others unhappy including Victoria who wished to live in his beloved Ojo Caliente lands, the death of Taza.
Chapter IX. The Victorio/GeronimoWars, 1878-1886, highlights, Victoria’s death by Mexican soldiers @ Tres Castillos (1880), Crook /Geronimo, Geronimo’s 1886 surrender ,Chiricahuas sent to Florida , Chiricahuas were permitted to return to Oklahoma in 1894 and then to Mescalero Reservation in 1909, but not to their original Arizona /New Mexico home land.
Chapter X. Historical analysis, today’s Apaches, future prospects/implications for America , return to the land of Cochise
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