#San Carlos Apache

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De izquierda a derecha: James Stevens (intérprete), Forgetting, Josh Jingling, Long y Net The Waites. Apaches San Carlos. Fotografía tomada por Frank Albert Rinehart en 1898. Reserva de San Carlos, Arizona.

[thebigkelu]

San Carlos Apache Scout with Blanket and Chief Goody Goody's Sister with Blanket and Basket; Both in Native Dress - Randall - 1888

[pilgrim1975]

Earl Gardner, last to hang in Arizona.

Arizona, long a part of the old and wild West, has a somewhat chequered history for both law-breaking and law-enforcement. Home to Tombstone, the OK Corral, Bisbee, Prescott and a few other Wild West landmarks, it immeditely conjures images of rattlesnakes, arid deserts, epic shoot-outs and outlaws twisting at the end of a rope. Earl Gardner was no Old West outlaw, but he was the last oportunity…

[bayareabadboy]

Apache Tribe

San Carlos Arizona

[geologyin-blog]

Fire Agate Pendant from Slaughter Mountain on San Carlos Apache Reservation,AZ, USA

Photo: Wildfire agate

[olowan-waphiya]

[fatehbaz]

the very Sacred Oak Flat is in danger of becoming an open pit copper mine. turning a sacred site into a 1000-ft pit. Apache Leap, ancient petroglyphs, extremely important rituals since time began; these things are Oak Flat. the federal government is ignoring many legal protections as well, including 200 yr old treaty promising to protect the land forever, national park designation, and on the national register of historic places. this project is so, so evil. I want people to know about it. Please read, talk, care about it.

Nice, thank you. The impending destruction of Chi'chil Bildagoteel by the US government and one of the planet's most infamous mining companies.

Over the past 3 years, I’ve written here about defense of Oak Flat, also called Chi'chil Bildagoteel by Chiricahua Apache from San Carlos reservation. (A summary of the site’s importance and history. A summary of the legal challenges to the mine. A summary of Apache Stronghold and other Indigenous-led campaigns. A photo collection featuring Indigenous-led actions in February 2021.) But all of these posts predate the developments that have occurred from the beginning of 2022 until now (March 2023). And the legal case, the fate of the site, is about to be settled this very month.

Well, then, there’s Rio Tinto, the copper mining leviathan, despised across the planet, bane of Australia, so-called Rhodesia, Latin America, Papua, etc. They're the second-largest metals/mining company on the planet. For well over a century, open-pit copper mines have been infamous for the scale of their destruction and I like how you describe it: giant pits, gaping wounds. Oak Flat is destined to belong to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto. Just before widespread news of Rio Tinto’s interest in Oak Flat, Rio Tinto had earned an especially-notorious reputation for destroying Indigenous/Aboriginal sites in Australia. A summary of the news about the “atrocity” at Juukan Gorge, when in May 2020, Rio Tinto destroyed an important sacred cultural site containing Indigenous shelters over 45,000 years old, and Rio Tinto leaders apparently had foreknowledge of the area’s cultural importance. Here’s a look at what is perhaps the oldest surviving human art on the planet, some petroglyphs and shelters up to 50,000 years old, being destroyed by the truly astonishing scale and diversity of destructive mining operations in Western Australia. And here’s a look at many other ancient and modern Indigenous sacred sites being destroyed by mining in that region.

Sacred Land Film Project put together some informational graphics:

Anyway, a basic summary.

Originally, this mine was kinda known as, like, “the John McCain Land-Grab Deal” because Senator McCain sold out the state of Arizona and Indigenous people by basically promising a formal transfer of land and the creation of what would become a major mining site at Oak Flat. Mining in the Oak Flat area was technically prohibited decades earlier by an Eisenhower presidential/executive order, but in December 2014, McCain sneaked a hidden last-minute rider onto a must-pass defense spending bill.

In May 2020, Rio Tinto gets caught destroying those sites at Juukan Gorge.

So, in October 2020, Indigenous activists discovered that the supposed date of the land transfer finalization had been quietly and suddenly moved up like a full year, meaning that the site might have become a mine beginning in December 2020 or January 2021.

At this point, the Oak Flat mine was becoming known as, like, “Trump’s Rushed/Hurried Mining Deal,” since the Trump presidential administration seemed to want to quickly act on the mine before any potential presidential transfer of power might occur in January 2021, “just in case” they lost the November 2020 election.

So this is when Apache Stronghold and other Native advocates really started finally getting national recognition in headlines. They organized a Day of Action and statewide events around the Solstice in 2020, and by January 2021, they had forced the case into court.

In the January 2021 case of Apache Stronghold v. United States, an Arizona judge ruled against Native advocates, but advocates got the case heard by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. While the case was being argued, in February 2021, Apache Stronghold also participated in a newsworthy relay from Oak Flat to the courthouse in Phoenix, when Native advocates held a candlelight vigil.

But in March 2021, the US Forest Service announced that it was temporarily withdrawing its environmental impact assessments for the land transfer, putting the mine on hold.

In October 2021, the three judges on the appeals court ruled against Apache Stronghold again.

Over a year later, in November 2022, the court then announced something unusual: The court was willing to rehear the case en blanc (before a panel of all 11 judges).

And now, “Biden’s attorneys” will be arguing against Apache Stronghold and for the land transfer.

Throughout this entire process, Apache Stronghold has consistently been vocal, active, and dedicated to stopping it.

Here are some headlines from the past couple of years:

And from March 2023, this headline, one more time, for impact:

So, beginning on 21 March 2023, the case is being heard, again, for what is presumably the final time, with US government attorneys arguing that the land will belong to the mining companies by summer 2023.

[entheognosis]

Cassadora and his wife, from the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, on an official visit to Washington D.C. Pinal Apache - 1876

Native American History

[littlefeather-wolf]

Naiche - Chiricahua Apache

Naiche 1856-1919

Naiche, the youngest son of Cochise, was born in 1856. His mother, Dos-teh-seh, was the daughter of Mangas Coloradas. As a young man he took part in raids on white settlers and in 1872 was with his father when he met Brigadier General Oliver Howard. This resulted in the establishment of the Chricahua Reservation in Arizona ... Taza, Cochise's older son, became chief when his father died in 1874. Two years later Taza died and Naiche became the leader of the Chiricahuas Apaches ... In September 1880, Naiche joined Geronimo and Juh in an attempt to lead their people from the San Carlos Reservation into the Sierra Madre. However, in 1883 General George Crook managed to persuade the Apaches to return to Arizona ... Naiche and Geronimo broke out again in May 1885. Once again General Crook was sent after them. Naiche lived in the Sierra Madre until he was caught by Crook in September, 1886. Natchez now joined the all-Indian "I" Company, 12th Infantry at Fort Sill, Oklahoma ... In 1897 Naiche worked as a scout for Captain Hugh Scott and the 7th Cavalry ... After leaving the army he moved to the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico ...

Naiche died on 16th March, 1919

[cognitivejustice]

Pictured is Dragonfly Farm on the Navajo Nation, where IndigeHub is working with Crescive Soil to provide soil health and slide training to create compost for organic input. Photograph: Courtesy Bleu Adams

Given adequate funding, she hopes IndigeHub can build a network of food hubs across the Navajo Nation.

The hubs seek to produce, store and distribute food to the one-quarter of Native Americans experiencing food insecurity

In addition to the Navajo Nation, grassroots food hubs are also emerging in places like Arizona. The Star School, serving primarily Native American students near Flagstaff, is developing a food hub with a local food store and growing produce in a greenhouse and garden. Further to the south-west, the Nalwoodi Denzhone Community nonprofit operates a food pantry, a local food store, a community kitchen, and a regenerative farm and mobile chicken tractor on the San Carlos Apache Reservation.

“If we can build these hubs, we can fill those gaps in the food system,” said Adams.

Hill agreed, saying the food hub model is a step toward food security and food sovereignty long denied to Hopi people. “If we don’t have access to and control over the food system, our seeds, and food production,” she said, “we become extremely vulnerable”.

[themotherofhorses]

hi! i think you've answered this question before when a different anon asked, but i couldn't find the original post, so sorry for the repeat; but how do you recommend non-native people write native characters while being respectful of their tradition and culture? i understand that there is a variety of different indigenous cultures all across america and other parts of the world, but do you have any links or sources that you could recommend to further familiarise with the general gist of respecting boundaries before diving into individual peoples and whatnot? thanks so much for the help, and i'm sorry if i worded any part of this ask; this is a genuine question, and i don't mean any offence!

Hello love!

I’d be happy to provide some help. See below:

Here is my previous post regarding this topic; it has the basics for how to tackle a Native character when you are a non-Native. Feel free to read through it. Additionally, I’ll offer some more personal advice.

Three of my main OCs (SilentDove, Balenyra, and Gene) are Plains Cree, Chippewa, and Okanagan. To narrow it down:

SilentDove and Gene (siblings): Chippewa-Cree & Lipan Apache

Balenyra Red Rivers: Plains Cree & Okanagan.

Now, the Cree and Okanagan people are predominately Indigenous Canadian (aside from the Chippewa-Cree that reside on the Rocky Boy reservation). Given that I do not belong to any of those cultures, I've needed to do extensive research on cultural customs and beliefs. After all, they might do something different that we Diné/Nde do not.

To do such, I've actually taken to surrounding myself with people belonging to these Nations (e.g., on different social media platforms). For instance, here is a post that explains what a Cree bride would've worn in the 1800s; this was posted by someone who is Plains Cree.

Furthermore, here is an excerpt I’ve included in my Notion, an app that I’ve used to build my OCs:

If you wish to conduct your own research, I highly recommend websites, books, journal articles, and other references published by Indigenous people, preferably belonging to the tribe/band you wish to include in your writing.

For example, your character is a Cree person. Are they Plains? Woodlands? Swampy? Moose? If you are writing about an Apache woman, does she belong to the San Carlos tribe? Is she Lipan Apache or Jiscarilla? ? Specify! Too often have non-Natives grouped us underneath the same umbrella — refusing to expand our identity, leaving us as only "Native American/Indigenous."

I'll link a website (here) that also provides wonderful suggestions!

If you need further help, feel free to hop into my DMs! Thank you!

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Salt River Canyon

Arizona, USA

White Mountain Apache, San Carlos Apache, Hohokam, Ndee/Nnēē: (Western Apache), and Pueblos land

[robertalanclayton]

San Carlos Apache, Etching, RA Clayton 

[ruknowhere]

Gahé Dzíł / Mountain Spirits

-Crisosto Apache

always for my family

Circling around flames and dancing with the blazes

Encumbering sparks take flight into the night sky,

A swirling twinkle resembling a star crown

Moving into empty canopies resembling ghosts

A threshold colossal structure with rusty bells shakes

the sound of fire sings lingering beyond the flames

sent across the mountain and valleys

These spirits come from the mountains and move towards

the south, between the sacred narrow canyons,

The Sierra Madre Canyon walls sing in their echoes

A medicine reveals a stick and brings the wall down

For the Ndé—the people who wandered into night

Ascending towards the ending sky and onto the lost land

Losing their tongues and eyes they consume the mountain

Air and waters trying to heal all their lungs that bellowed

Outward against the slow breezes and heavy breaths

A hundred years the spirits protected them from

the sixteenth calvary who then believed, in all their hearts,

a good Injun was a dead Injun. Even then the spirits protected

the people for another twenty-seven years until they reached

—their forced destination

A place where cutting their hair died as the spirits watched

The people searched the underground catacombs of St. Augustine

While hearing the waves crash against the stone walls

Outside the thick walls, the people were exposed

To yellow fever and malaria, they died and died

—some survived

After thirty more years the people returned to their homeland

closer to the Skeleton Canyons where an epic scribed

on the mountain walls called back their ancestors

At night the drumming echoed like the murmur inside

Their bodies hearing the loud thumps come and go

In 1986 the people returned to their original place

—entering the ancient canyons

—honoring those killed

—remembering the mountains

At night the sparks fly high as the people hear those rusty bells

and hollow songs —they feel the drums and footsteps reverberate

Inside their veins every time, they look to the mountains

Images:

Mountain spirit dancers, Mescalero Apache. They dance to drive away evil spirits. (Photography: San Carlos Agency, New Mexico 1899).

Apache Mountain Spirit (Gaan) Dancers

[apacheboy]

Damn Shea Is sexy as fuck. I'd love to taste her . Fine ass Apache from San Carlos Az 298 #Nativegirls

[rppr-podcast]

Delta Green: Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays - Part 1

Thirteen people have vanished along Highway 70 in the Arizona desert. That stretch of road—the press already calls it the “Devil’s Highway”—runs through the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. Tribal police and state investigators are at a loss. Now the FBI has stepped in with a team of two agents and a medical examiner. Can they find the killer? Thad as Taurean Cybulski, FBI agent Vee as…