Post by coeurrouge on Jul 21, 2022 5:13:53 GMT -5
Before beginning, Naiche and Goyakla were pleased and surprised to see Kaathenay alived and beside Nantan Lupan. I believe Naiche was also glad to see his mother but he had no time to discuss with. Crook chose a place under cottonwoods for the council. From Crook headquarter, Captain Bourke transcripted the meeting. A photographer, to the outbreakers’ surprise, took place near them. The council was tense. About twenty warriors in arm assisted at the council or were near ready to shoot at every sign of treachery.
As the spokesman, Goyakla opened the council, talking about his personal reasons of leaving the reservation. But he intentionnaly eluded the facts he was, with Kas-tziden present at Los Embudos, the instigators of the binge which initiated the outbreak and how the shaman convinced the Chokonens to follow him in the outbreak. Even he was sincere thinking about a conspiracy against him from Davis and Pedes-klinje, it was exaggerated. But mainly, as a spokesman, Goyakla forgot, I think voluntary, to speak for all the outbreakers like they all left the reservation for the same reasons like him.
This and the behaviour of Nantan Lupan, aloof and edgy during Goyakla’s explanations, had certainly irritated Naiche who already disliked the General. When Goyakla had finished his speech, Nantan Lupan said, in his schedule to humiliate the shaman, that all Goyakla spoke off were lies. This abrupt and mostly unfair remark offended Goyakla and tensed up the warriors on their gun. Naiche, surely sharing the same feeling, ordered the warriors to stay calm, only by raising his hand. He showed to everybody who commanded to the warriors at this time and that he was the real chief. Apparently at the same time Kla-esch and Ulzana with their group arrived .
The Americans feared a tragic action of their White Mountains scouts against the leader of the slaughter against some of their people, in November 1885. But their scouts kept control of themselves and Kla-esch seeing Nantan Lupan, a general he deeply trusted, showed a more open mind that Naiche and the council could continue. But again, Naiche and mainly General Crook did not cease the opportunities of the moment. Kla-esch, still angry about the trickery of Goyakla in May 1885, could support Naiche’s point of view and despite Nantan Lupan discredited their spokesman, Naiche did not led the talkings for the Chiricahuas and explaining why he and his Chokonens left the reservation. After Naiche just showed the control, he had on all the warriors and that Crook knew Kla-esch could be an ally against Goyakla, the General did not definitively put aside the shaman by asking Naiche to be the spokesman.
While Kla-esch set back, Nantan Lupan explained that he knew about the lie of the killings of Nantan Enchau and Pedes-klinje, made by Goyakla, to incitate Naiche and Kla-esch to participate of the outbreak. At this time, the talkings were no more a council but a verbal fighting between Nantan Lupan and Goyakla. Each tried, by accusing eachother to be a bad and treacherous human being, to get the power on the others but both forgot the goal in this council, a permanent peace with a return at the reservation for the outbreakers and an unconditional surrender with exile for Crook.
Naiche did not interfere, a part because it was not his nature and was not still enough confident to mortify an elder who had been one of his mentors, but mainly because Naiche disliked Nantan Lupan, his behaviour and unlike Kla-esch, Naiche distrustfulled Crook because he was an American’s soldier. He also feeled that no more word said this day would change the general’s mind. And the words said by Nantan Lupan at the end of the council, 25th of March, made angry most of the outbreakers.
While the Chiricahuas came sincerely to explain the reasons of their outbreak and they agreed to return living in the reservation, under the order of a blue soldier officer, surrounded by Apache’s enemies, abandoning their freedom and the right to walk on their homelands, Nantan Lupan ended by an ultimatum, fighting until death even it would take fifty years or unconditional surrender and finished their life as prisonners of war far away in the East. Naiche with these last words, certainly thought it was useless to continue the council.
The warriors came back to their camp very angry. Worst, Dos-teh-seh and Etsohnn certainly gave news about their relatives hold prisonners at Fort Bowie. If the outbreakers learnt the majority were safe and in good health they also learnt very bad fates. Cathla’s wife certainy did not survive and never reached Fort Bowie like the youngest’s son of Ulzana. Shoie’s wife was beaten to death in the fort. And the youngest’s children of Goyakla died in the fort of dysentery. Humiliated by Nantan Lupan, just learning the death of his two sons, Goyakla was the most furious and commanded the warriors to be ready to shoot and leave.
Naiche was apparently also mortify and angry. If his family in Fort Bowie was fine, they were separated, Nantan Lupan did not brought back the hostages with him except Kas-tziden and maybe his wife. But what deeply disappointed Naiche was that Nantan Lupan knew about the lie of Goyakla towards he and Kla-esch, in May 1885, but the General condemned the Chokonens to the same treatment as Goyakla which for Naiche was unfair. The night passed with a lot of discussions in the outbreakers’ camp. Kaathenay and Al-chesay were barely accepted and carefully tried to convince them that the surrender was the better option. Naiche certainly talked with his mother at this time but it is impossible to know the contents of their talking.
Even Crook’s emissaries did not persuade lot of the outbreakers. Kla-esch missing too much his family and trusting Nantan Lupan seemed ready to surrender but they were very few to think about the same option. Most of them, who were young, thought to escape again and to continue to fight with the support of Goyakla. If the night calmed them, the outbreakers after night discussions would try the next day to mollify Nantan Lupan’s position.
The next day, the outbreakers were still in a bad state of mind but they surprisingly accepted that Bourke and the photographer Fly visited their camp. Bourke who was liked by the Chiricahuas, saw Santiago McKinn in good health and becoming a Chiricahua. The photographer was permitted to take several photos of the renegades’ band. These photos are very valuable because it showed the last band of Native’s renegades in USA. During the day, directly or by the intermediary of Kaathenay and Al-chesay, Naiche and the other leaders expressed to Nantan Lupan that they would never accept the proposition of Nantan Lupan because they thought it was too hard for them.
Crook was under pressure because he knew if the renegades fled again, long years of fighting, raids, pursues and hundreds of deaths would follow. It would cost his post. To success, he had to get a surrender of all the band. He also understood that the leaders to convince were Kla-esch but mainly Naiche. He knew Kla-esch was ready to surrender but without Naiche, Goyakla would not be isolated enough to surrender too. So, 26th of March, during unformal talkings, he proposed a new deal to Naiche and the others.
Despite the day before, Crook accused Goyakla to have lied to Naiche and Kla-esch to induce them to join the outbreakers with their Chokonens, the General did the same thing towards Naiche. But if Goyakla was persuaded that his loyal men would kill Lieutenant Davis and Pedes-klinje, Crook knew he had few chances that his new deal would be validate by his superiors Sheridan and the President Cleveland. So, Crook to obtain a success, promised that after giving up their weapons, the renegades would become prisonners of war during two years in the East with their family and then they could return at the reservation living with the other Chiricahuas. This promise was a lie to convince definitively Naiche and Kla-esch and their followers to surrender.
The lie worked. During the following night, Kla-esch announced the next day he would accept the last proposition of Nantan Lupan. With him some of his followers having their family kept captive by the US Army in Fort Bowie would join him. A wife and two sons at Fort Bowie, E-clah-eh certainly tired of their actual life also wanting to surrender, feeling most of the Chokonens wanting to surrender surely enough of their hard life of renegades, Naiche reluctantly said he would also give up the fight and accept the two years promise. Without support on his stubborn position of a return at the reservation or nothing, Goyakla quited the warpath. Did the shaman lie again? It was possible.
27th of March 1886 in the morning, the second official council took place. It was brief and just to announce the surrender of the band, agreed of the two years of POW in the East following by their return at Turkey Creek in the reservation. This time it was not Goyakla who talked first but Kla-esch, showing the discredit the shaman had even in the band. When Kla-esch finished his speech of surrender, Naiche was next. Maybe the Chief was honest or perhaps considering the last three days were a pernicious joke, Naiche simply wanted to end this. His speech was brief as often:
"I surrender just the same as he did…I give you my word, I give you my body. I surrender, I have nothing more to say than that. When I was free I gave orders but now I surrender to you. What you tell me to do I do. Now that I have surrendered I am glad. I’ll not have to hide behing rocks and mountains; I’ll go across the open plain. I’ll now sleep well, eat contentedly, and be satisfied, and so will my people…I will go wherever you may see fit to send us, where no bad talk will be spoken of us."
Goyakla also and officially said he gave up as all the band. Satisfied Crook explained that Lieutenant Maus and his troops would escort the renegades to Fort Bowie where they would be disarmed before going East by train. The chiefs came back to their camp and the band certainly knew they did not need anymore of their money they got by raids, bought during the evening a lot of whisky sold by Tribolett.
Crook and the Americans heard the noise of the heavy drinking in the Chiricahuas’ camp. The scouts reported to the general how deeply drunk were the renegades but Crook did not care much worried that Sheridan would not validate the last deal which was a disobedience of the 30th of September 1885’s order. So, 28th of March, while his subordinates feared another outbreak Crook left premeturaly El Cañon de Los Embudos to Fort Bowie. He let Lieutenant Maus to manage the escort of the drunken band to Fort Bowie.
29th of march, immediately after he arrived, Crook telegraphed about the surrender and asked Sheridan to validate the two years’ promise deal. The answer was sent the next day and was a terrible disclaiming for Crook. Sheridan refused the deal and repeated to his subordinate that the only option for the renegades to stay alived was an exile at Fort Marion, Florida, until their natural death. Sheridan asked Crook to return to the renegades and to tell them to accept the initial proposition. Crook, destabilized, knew this new announce would scatter the renegades on the warpath. At the same time, he thought about what to do, he received another telegram from Maus. The Lieutenant announced him that Naiche and Goyakla fled with thirty-eight followers among them sixteen warriors. War would continue.
Crook informed his superiors. Sheridan exceeded, ordered to tranfer as soon as possible Kla-esch and all the Chiricahua’s prisonners Crook had and to send troops to pursue Naiche and the last renegades. He also ordered Crook to abandon the employement of scouts’ companies in which Crook based all his strategy against the Chiricahuas. All these failures and bad news of 30th of March 1886 decided the General Crook to resign as the head commander of Arizona’s Department. He was the third General, in a row, to lost this post because of the Chiricahuas. His resignation was accepted and Sheridan named General Nelson.A Miles to replace him.
NEXT : 4.5.Fear, Shame, Desperation and Surrender.
As the spokesman, Goyakla opened the council, talking about his personal reasons of leaving the reservation. But he intentionnaly eluded the facts he was, with Kas-tziden present at Los Embudos, the instigators of the binge which initiated the outbreak and how the shaman convinced the Chokonens to follow him in the outbreak. Even he was sincere thinking about a conspiracy against him from Davis and Pedes-klinje, it was exaggerated. But mainly, as a spokesman, Goyakla forgot, I think voluntary, to speak for all the outbreakers like they all left the reservation for the same reasons like him.
This and the behaviour of Nantan Lupan, aloof and edgy during Goyakla’s explanations, had certainly irritated Naiche who already disliked the General. When Goyakla had finished his speech, Nantan Lupan said, in his schedule to humiliate the shaman, that all Goyakla spoke off were lies. This abrupt and mostly unfair remark offended Goyakla and tensed up the warriors on their gun. Naiche, surely sharing the same feeling, ordered the warriors to stay calm, only by raising his hand. He showed to everybody who commanded to the warriors at this time and that he was the real chief. Apparently at the same time Kla-esch and Ulzana with their group arrived .
The Americans feared a tragic action of their White Mountains scouts against the leader of the slaughter against some of their people, in November 1885. But their scouts kept control of themselves and Kla-esch seeing Nantan Lupan, a general he deeply trusted, showed a more open mind that Naiche and the council could continue. But again, Naiche and mainly General Crook did not cease the opportunities of the moment. Kla-esch, still angry about the trickery of Goyakla in May 1885, could support Naiche’s point of view and despite Nantan Lupan discredited their spokesman, Naiche did not led the talkings for the Chiricahuas and explaining why he and his Chokonens left the reservation. After Naiche just showed the control, he had on all the warriors and that Crook knew Kla-esch could be an ally against Goyakla, the General did not definitively put aside the shaman by asking Naiche to be the spokesman.
While Kla-esch set back, Nantan Lupan explained that he knew about the lie of the killings of Nantan Enchau and Pedes-klinje, made by Goyakla, to incitate Naiche and Kla-esch to participate of the outbreak. At this time, the talkings were no more a council but a verbal fighting between Nantan Lupan and Goyakla. Each tried, by accusing eachother to be a bad and treacherous human being, to get the power on the others but both forgot the goal in this council, a permanent peace with a return at the reservation for the outbreakers and an unconditional surrender with exile for Crook.
Naiche did not interfere, a part because it was not his nature and was not still enough confident to mortify an elder who had been one of his mentors, but mainly because Naiche disliked Nantan Lupan, his behaviour and unlike Kla-esch, Naiche distrustfulled Crook because he was an American’s soldier. He also feeled that no more word said this day would change the general’s mind. And the words said by Nantan Lupan at the end of the council, 25th of March, made angry most of the outbreakers.
While the Chiricahuas came sincerely to explain the reasons of their outbreak and they agreed to return living in the reservation, under the order of a blue soldier officer, surrounded by Apache’s enemies, abandoning their freedom and the right to walk on their homelands, Nantan Lupan ended by an ultimatum, fighting until death even it would take fifty years or unconditional surrender and finished their life as prisonners of war far away in the East. Naiche with these last words, certainly thought it was useless to continue the council.
The warriors came back to their camp very angry. Worst, Dos-teh-seh and Etsohnn certainly gave news about their relatives hold prisonners at Fort Bowie. If the outbreakers learnt the majority were safe and in good health they also learnt very bad fates. Cathla’s wife certainy did not survive and never reached Fort Bowie like the youngest’s son of Ulzana. Shoie’s wife was beaten to death in the fort. And the youngest’s children of Goyakla died in the fort of dysentery. Humiliated by Nantan Lupan, just learning the death of his two sons, Goyakla was the most furious and commanded the warriors to be ready to shoot and leave.
Naiche was apparently also mortify and angry. If his family in Fort Bowie was fine, they were separated, Nantan Lupan did not brought back the hostages with him except Kas-tziden and maybe his wife. But what deeply disappointed Naiche was that Nantan Lupan knew about the lie of Goyakla towards he and Kla-esch, in May 1885, but the General condemned the Chokonens to the same treatment as Goyakla which for Naiche was unfair. The night passed with a lot of discussions in the outbreakers’ camp. Kaathenay and Al-chesay were barely accepted and carefully tried to convince them that the surrender was the better option. Naiche certainly talked with his mother at this time but it is impossible to know the contents of their talking.
Even Crook’s emissaries did not persuade lot of the outbreakers. Kla-esch missing too much his family and trusting Nantan Lupan seemed ready to surrender but they were very few to think about the same option. Most of them, who were young, thought to escape again and to continue to fight with the support of Goyakla. If the night calmed them, the outbreakers after night discussions would try the next day to mollify Nantan Lupan’s position.
The next day, the outbreakers were still in a bad state of mind but they surprisingly accepted that Bourke and the photographer Fly visited their camp. Bourke who was liked by the Chiricahuas, saw Santiago McKinn in good health and becoming a Chiricahua. The photographer was permitted to take several photos of the renegades’ band. These photos are very valuable because it showed the last band of Native’s renegades in USA. During the day, directly or by the intermediary of Kaathenay and Al-chesay, Naiche and the other leaders expressed to Nantan Lupan that they would never accept the proposition of Nantan Lupan because they thought it was too hard for them.
Crook was under pressure because he knew if the renegades fled again, long years of fighting, raids, pursues and hundreds of deaths would follow. It would cost his post. To success, he had to get a surrender of all the band. He also understood that the leaders to convince were Kla-esch but mainly Naiche. He knew Kla-esch was ready to surrender but without Naiche, Goyakla would not be isolated enough to surrender too. So, 26th of March, during unformal talkings, he proposed a new deal to Naiche and the others.
Despite the day before, Crook accused Goyakla to have lied to Naiche and Kla-esch to induce them to join the outbreakers with their Chokonens, the General did the same thing towards Naiche. But if Goyakla was persuaded that his loyal men would kill Lieutenant Davis and Pedes-klinje, Crook knew he had few chances that his new deal would be validate by his superiors Sheridan and the President Cleveland. So, Crook to obtain a success, promised that after giving up their weapons, the renegades would become prisonners of war during two years in the East with their family and then they could return at the reservation living with the other Chiricahuas. This promise was a lie to convince definitively Naiche and Kla-esch and their followers to surrender.
The lie worked. During the following night, Kla-esch announced the next day he would accept the last proposition of Nantan Lupan. With him some of his followers having their family kept captive by the US Army in Fort Bowie would join him. A wife and two sons at Fort Bowie, E-clah-eh certainly tired of their actual life also wanting to surrender, feeling most of the Chokonens wanting to surrender surely enough of their hard life of renegades, Naiche reluctantly said he would also give up the fight and accept the two years promise. Without support on his stubborn position of a return at the reservation or nothing, Goyakla quited the warpath. Did the shaman lie again? It was possible.
27th of March 1886 in the morning, the second official council took place. It was brief and just to announce the surrender of the band, agreed of the two years of POW in the East following by their return at Turkey Creek in the reservation. This time it was not Goyakla who talked first but Kla-esch, showing the discredit the shaman had even in the band. When Kla-esch finished his speech of surrender, Naiche was next. Maybe the Chief was honest or perhaps considering the last three days were a pernicious joke, Naiche simply wanted to end this. His speech was brief as often:
"I surrender just the same as he did…I give you my word, I give you my body. I surrender, I have nothing more to say than that. When I was free I gave orders but now I surrender to you. What you tell me to do I do. Now that I have surrendered I am glad. I’ll not have to hide behing rocks and mountains; I’ll go across the open plain. I’ll now sleep well, eat contentedly, and be satisfied, and so will my people…I will go wherever you may see fit to send us, where no bad talk will be spoken of us."
Goyakla also and officially said he gave up as all the band. Satisfied Crook explained that Lieutenant Maus and his troops would escort the renegades to Fort Bowie where they would be disarmed before going East by train. The chiefs came back to their camp and the band certainly knew they did not need anymore of their money they got by raids, bought during the evening a lot of whisky sold by Tribolett.
Crook and the Americans heard the noise of the heavy drinking in the Chiricahuas’ camp. The scouts reported to the general how deeply drunk were the renegades but Crook did not care much worried that Sheridan would not validate the last deal which was a disobedience of the 30th of September 1885’s order. So, 28th of March, while his subordinates feared another outbreak Crook left premeturaly El Cañon de Los Embudos to Fort Bowie. He let Lieutenant Maus to manage the escort of the drunken band to Fort Bowie.
29th of march, immediately after he arrived, Crook telegraphed about the surrender and asked Sheridan to validate the two years’ promise deal. The answer was sent the next day and was a terrible disclaiming for Crook. Sheridan refused the deal and repeated to his subordinate that the only option for the renegades to stay alived was an exile at Fort Marion, Florida, until their natural death. Sheridan asked Crook to return to the renegades and to tell them to accept the initial proposition. Crook, destabilized, knew this new announce would scatter the renegades on the warpath. At the same time, he thought about what to do, he received another telegram from Maus. The Lieutenant announced him that Naiche and Goyakla fled with thirty-eight followers among them sixteen warriors. War would continue.
Crook informed his superiors. Sheridan exceeded, ordered to tranfer as soon as possible Kla-esch and all the Chiricahua’s prisonners Crook had and to send troops to pursue Naiche and the last renegades. He also ordered Crook to abandon the employement of scouts’ companies in which Crook based all his strategy against the Chiricahuas. All these failures and bad news of 30th of March 1886 decided the General Crook to resign as the head commander of Arizona’s Department. He was the third General, in a row, to lost this post because of the Chiricahuas. His resignation was accepted and Sheridan named General Nelson.A Miles to replace him.
NEXT : 4.5.Fear, Shame, Desperation and Surrender.