Apache Tribe

Francisco Vásquez de Coronado meets the Apache Indians

Jan 1, 1541

Coronado found a settlement of Indias he called Querechos. He described them as nomads, following the buffalo herds on the plains. They were later identified as Apache Indians. They lived in large settlements, one was of two hundred tipies, with more than one thousand people living together.

Migration of the Apache Indians

Jan 1, 1600

Large portion of Apache indians migrated to Kansas plains, the living conditions were not adaptable because of the living and farming on the plains. The Comanche tribe overtook them, and defeated their land, causing the Apaches to move to areas around New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Mexico.

Spanish were tired of battling

Jan 23, 1730

Spanish leader designated areas of Texas to the Apaches, he believed it was easier to give them the land rather than to continue the bloody wars.

US defeated Mexico

Jan 1, 1846

The Apaches signed a treaty with the nation. White settlers began to enter their area in large groups causing to the Apache Wars.

Geronimo moves his people to reservation

Mar 27, 1883

Apache Dependent Aliens

Nov 3, 1883

U.S supreme court declared American Indians to be “dependent aliens”

Geronimo Surrenders

Sep 4, 1886

Apache leader Geronimo surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles, ending the last major US-Indian war