Western Apache and their Sense of Place

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Western Apache and their Sense of Place

• An Introduction to their History

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Apache in the 18th century

• Western Apache
• Chiricahua
• Mescalero
• Jicarilla
• Lipan
• Navajo
• Plains

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Current Apache Reservations
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Keith Basso
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Glorified by novelists, sensationalized by
historians, and distorted beyond credulity by
commercial film makers, the popular image of 'the
Apache' a brutish, terrifying semihuman bent
upon wanton death and destruction is almost
entirely a product of irresponsible caricature
and exaggeration. Indeed, there can be little
doubt that the Apache has been transformed from a
native American into an American legend, the
fanciful and fallacious creation of a non-Indian
citizenry whose inability to recognize the
massive treachery of ethnic and cultural
stereotypes has been matched only by its
willingness to sustain and inflate them.Keith
Basso
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Geronimo

• In Chiricahua he is known as Goyaalé, "one who
  yawns.
• Lived 1829-1909
• A prominent Native American leader of the
  Chiricahua Apache who defended his people against
  the encroachment of the United States on their
  tribal lands for over 25 years.