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*[http://www.fortsillapache.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ Fort Sill Apache Tribe] | *[http://www.fortsillapache.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ Fort Sill Apache Tribe] | ||
Fort Sill Apaches include members of the Warm Springs Band of Apache and the Chiricahua Apaches. This group is often referred to as Chief Geronimo's Band of Apaches. | |||
Population: 1984: Total [[American_Indian_Enrollment_Records|enrollment]] 306. <ref>Indian Reservations A State and Federal Handbook. Compiled by The Confederation of American Indians, New York, N.Y. McFarland and Co. Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, c. 1986. FHL book 970.1 In2 page 224 </ref> | Population: 1984: Total [[American_Indian_Enrollment_Records|enrollment]] 306. <ref>Indian Reservations A State and Federal Handbook. Compiled by The Confederation of American Indians, New York, N.Y. McFarland and Co. Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, c. 1986. FHL book 970.1 In2 page 224 </ref> | ||
=== History === | === History === | ||
Victorio was the Chief who took a group of forty warriors on the war path in protest over the tribe's being moved to a reservation located at San Carlos, Arizona from their New Mexico reservation. | |||
Geronimo assumed command of the group of Apaches. He carried the Indian warfare until August 1886 when General Nelson A. Miles forced him to surrender. | |||
Geronimo and his followers were taken prisoner of war and imprisoned at Fort Marion and Pensacola, Florida. | |||
Many imprisoned members died the first year and the tribe was removed to Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama for seven years. | |||
1894: Geronimo and his band were brought from Alabama to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Indian Territory. | |||
1909 Geronimo died, and is buried in the Apache Cemetery near Fort Sill, Oklahoma | |||
1913 some were alloted land in Oklahoma; others moved to the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico. | |||
==== Brief Timeline ==== | ==== Brief Timeline ==== | ||