Post by pullingup on Mar 22, 2013 15:30:46 GMT -5
In April of 1913, the first group of Chiricahua/Warm Springs people who had been held as prisoners of war at Fort Sill were put on a train, shipped to Tularosa, New Mexico, and released from imprisonment to join the Mescalero Apache Tribe on the Mescalero reservation in New Mexico. The rest of the prisoners were held for another year and were released in 1914 to go to small allottments of farmland in Oklahoma to become the Fort Sill Apache Tribe.
The parting in 1913 was a bittersweet event because the tribe was being evicted from the reservation they had earlier been told to consider their home; and families were being split and sent to an unknown future.
The Mescalero Apache Tribe is having a centennial event celebrating 100 years of freedom. The event is April 5th and 6th, 2013, at the Mescalero Apache Reservation.
The parting in 1913 was a bittersweet event because the tribe was being evicted from the reservation they had earlier been told to consider their home; and families were being split and sent to an unknown future.
The Mescalero Apache Tribe is having a centennial event celebrating 100 years of freedom. The event is April 5th and 6th, 2013, at the Mescalero Apache Reservation.