Geronimo, Naiches, 1900/1901, Reformed church camp meeting

[barbara]

These three photos were taken when my great grandfather went to the Oklahoma Territory as part of a "Missionary Quartette"  in the summers of 1900 and 1901.  Can anyone help me identify the people? 

1. One photo (hopefully attached as OK 1) shows Naiche standing in the back row, third from left.  My great grandfather, who is wearing a hat and standing with his right hand partly in his pocket and facing away from the group, is in the back row at the far right.  Can anyone identify others in the photo? 

2.  Another photo, labeled OK 9 is a man with two children and a pony.  Can anyone identify them? My father claims it is Geronimo, but he looks awfully young and fit for a man in his 70s (again, all three photos would have been taken in 1900 or 1901).  I am also interested in the names of the children, if they are known.

3.  Photo OK 10 features a man (not my great grandfather) at a missionary event attended by people from one or more tribes.  If anyone has more information about this photo, I am very interested in learning more.  The Quartette participated in at least two camp meetings in the summer of 1900.  One (in July) was held for the Cheyennes and Arapahoes; the other (in August) for the Apaches.  This photo, taken by my great-grandfather was taken at a camp meeting in 1900 (or 1901).

These are a few of the photos in an old scrapbook my great grandfather put together.

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[naiches2]

Photo 1 - looks like Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition (1898: Omaha, Neb.)
Photo 2 - man is not Apache. He looks like The Great Plains Indian.

[barbara]

Thank you for the reply! 

All three photos would have been taken in the area surrounding Ft. Sill, OK.  In the back row of the first photo is Naiche (cousin of Geronimo).  

The man in the second photo may well be from another tribe.  Thank you for the suggestion that he may have been a Great Plains Indian.

[coeurrouge]

Aug 11, 2022 16:12:54 GMT -5 naiches2 said:

Photo 1 - looks like Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition (1898: Omaha, Neb.)
Photo 2 - man is not Apache. He looks like The Great Plains Indian.

I am agree with Naiche2 for photo 2, the man was maybe a Comanche or Kiowa. In photo 1 the man with the cavalry hat was Naiche (not a cousin of Geronimo but Geronimo had been married with a cousin of Naiche, She-gah who died in 1887).

Photo 3: too hard to identify someone.

[barbara]

Thank you, "coerrouge," for the precise information on how Geronimo and Naiche were related. I'll note this in a short book my dad is writing (and I am editing) about my great grandfather's experience as a missionary for the Reformed Church. Family lore (reported by my grandmother) is that my great grandfather (her father) baptized Geronimo. I have no evidence that he met Geronimo, but I know that he met Naiche, who (from what I have read) became a Christian. If this is a topic anyone knows about, I am very interested in learning more. I understand there is still a Reformed Church in the Ft. Sill area, but I have not been able to make contact with them to see what records they may have.

[gregor]

It is hard to identify a person from these photographs. Naiche seems to be present in the first one.

Maybe this photo helps

Officers from the Reformed Church of America, Mescalero 1916