Author-ized L.J.5d ago

“There was amongst them a poor deformed woman, with legs and arms no longer than an infant’s,” he recorded in his diary. “She was well mounted, and the gallant manner in which some of the plumed Apaches waited on her, for she was perfectly helpless when dismounted, made it hard for me to believe the tales of blood and vice told of these people.”

– A lieutenant in a U.S. topographical unit on a meeting with an #Apache delegation, from The Apache Wars by Paul Andrew Hutton

#Indigenous #disability #history

Show threadAuthor-ized L.J.5d ago
Idk, I personally don't find it hard to believe cruel and warlike individuals can also be caring and considerate of disabled people 🤷‍♀️ People are complex and situational, after all, and no one in real life is all good or all bad. I guess a lot of white people (or “White Eyes” as Apache groups called them) were/are too inundated in racism and a flat good vs. evil worldview to apply that kind of nuance to Indigenous people.
Show threadAuthor-ized L.J.

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The Apaches quickly scattered, splitting into three groups. [Aravaipa band leader] Beto instructed the novice to draw a line across their trail and say, “Let no one pass over this.” A little farther on he was instructed to do this again and again, until he had done it four times. In this way they escaped the pursuing White Eyes.

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[Lieutenant] Bascom, a promising young officer from Kentucky who had graduated from West Point in 1858, followed an Apache trail headed northeast toward Apache Pass, but then lost it and returned to the fort.
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– From Chapter 3 of #TheApacheWars by Paul Andrew Hutton

#amReading #Indigenous #history

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Show threadAuthor-ized L.J.12h ago

[Chokonen chief Cochise] married at least twice, and his second and principal wife was Dos-teh-seh, the daughter of Mangas Coloradas. Although by Chiricahua custom a man should live with his wife’s people, Cochise was already too important a leader to leave his Chokonen band.

– From Chapter 3 of The Apache Wars by Paul Andrew Hutton

I'm rather gratified by this factoid because I have a similar setup in the big WIP where the custom is for the man to go live with the wife's family (at least until the couple's children are grown), but the MC's first husband didn't do so because he was an established leader. Her second husband does follow the custom, which is somewhat ironic because he was an outsider.

Show threadAuthor-ized L.J.12h ago

[Chokonen chief Cochise] married at least twice, and his second and principal wife was Dos-teh-seh, the daughter of Mangas Coloradas. Although by Chiricahua custom a man should live with his wife’s people, Cochise was already too important a leader to leave his Chokonen band.

– From Chapter 3 of The Apache Wars by Paul Andrew Hutton

I'm rather gratified by this factoid because I have a similar setup in the big WIP where the custom is for the man to go live with the wife's family (at least until the couple's children are grown), but the MC's first husband didn't do so because he was an established leader. Her second husband does follow the custom, which is somewhat ironic because he was an outsider.