Post by coeurrouge on Nov 3, 2014 15:30:18 GMT -5
Hi,
More I'am thinking about that more I have doubts. Could Cochise named his son chief of the Chokonen, if Taza was single ? How the Chokonen could follow a chief single ?
For Chiricahuas, family is the primary priority and support. How a chief without a wife and children could hope to have followers (warriors and women)?
I think :
Taza was married in the 1860's, but his family died of war, illness or was taken prisonners by Mexicans. At the time of the Chiricahua reservation, he was a widow. But Cochise acted as his father-in-law Mangas Coloradas, he married his children to important men and women or bound to important men. So as he married one of his daugther to Chiva's son, I think he married Taza to Nahdeyole or Eclaheh (I suggest more the first one)to secure, after his death, the loyalty to Taza (the next chief after Cochise) of Skinya's local group or of the Geronimo's Bedonkohe and their allies the Nednis.
Why I think to Nahdeyole or Eclaheh ? Because I am always wandering how a so young warrior like Naiche (who had little experience as warrior and chief) could be married twice in 1878, at 22 years old. I know that those women were 15-20 years younger than Taza but Naiche married Haozinne at 28-30 years when Haozinne was 16 years old. At the death of Taza, Naiche maybe married his widow (Nahdeyole or Eclaheh), as tradition dicted him like Cochise had certainly married Yones, his brother Coyuntura's widow.
It is just a suggestion. What do you think about that? Do you know more that me ? I think the census of San Carlos between june and september 1876 that did Clum would help us.
More I'am thinking about that more I have doubts. Could Cochise named his son chief of the Chokonen, if Taza was single ? How the Chokonen could follow a chief single ?
For Chiricahuas, family is the primary priority and support. How a chief without a wife and children could hope to have followers (warriors and women)?
I think :
Taza was married in the 1860's, but his family died of war, illness or was taken prisonners by Mexicans. At the time of the Chiricahua reservation, he was a widow. But Cochise acted as his father-in-law Mangas Coloradas, he married his children to important men and women or bound to important men. So as he married one of his daugther to Chiva's son, I think he married Taza to Nahdeyole or Eclaheh (I suggest more the first one)to secure, after his death, the loyalty to Taza (the next chief after Cochise) of Skinya's local group or of the Geronimo's Bedonkohe and their allies the Nednis.
Why I think to Nahdeyole or Eclaheh ? Because I am always wandering how a so young warrior like Naiche (who had little experience as warrior and chief) could be married twice in 1878, at 22 years old. I know that those women were 15-20 years younger than Taza but Naiche married Haozinne at 28-30 years when Haozinne was 16 years old. At the death of Taza, Naiche maybe married his widow (Nahdeyole or Eclaheh), as tradition dicted him like Cochise had certainly married Yones, his brother Coyuntura's widow.
It is just a suggestion. What do you think about that? Do you know more that me ? I think the census of San Carlos between june and september 1876 that did Clum would help us.