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Naiche

Naiche
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Chiricahua Chokonen N'de Chief Naiche, Arizona
Born c. 1857
Chiricahua country
Died March 16, 1919(1919-03-16)
Mescalero, New Mexico
Allegiance Chiricahua Apache Indians
Years of service 1880–1886
Rank Chief or Leader of Chiricahua Apaches
Battles/wars Apache Wars
Relations Cochise (father)
Other work artist

Chief Naiche (ca. 1857-1919) was the final hereditary chief of the Chiricahua band of Apache Indians.

Naiche, whose name in English means "meddlesome one" or "mischief maker", is alternately spelled Nache, Nachi, or Natchez.

He was the youngest son of Cochise and his wife Dos-teh-seh (Dos-tes-ey, - “Something-at-the-campfire-already-cooked”, b. 1838), His older brother was Tah-zay aka Chief Taza.

Naiche was described as a tall, handsome man with a dignified bearing that reflected the Apache equivalent of a royal bloodline as the son of Cochise (leader of the Chihuicahui local group of the Chokonen and principal chief of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache) and Dos-teh-seh, daughter of the great Warm Spring/Mimbreño Chief Mangas Coloradas.Britton Davis described him as being 6'1" inheight, which was tall for an Apache.

He had three wives: Haozinne, E-Clah-heh and Na-deh-yole and six children.

Upon the death of his father Cochise in 1872, Naiche's brother Taza became the chief; however, Taza died a few years later in 1876, and the office went to Naiche. In the 1880s, Naiche and Geronimo successfully went to war together.

In 1880, Naiche traveled to Mexico with Geronimo's band, to avoid forced relocation to the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona. They surrendered in 1883 but escaped the reservation in 1885, back into Mexico.

Officially the leader of the last band of renegade Apaches in the Southwest, Naiche and Geronimo surrendered to General Nelson Miles in 1886.

Naiche and other Apaches requested to return to Arizona, while still imprisoned in Fort Marion. The US did not allow their return, but Kiowa and Comanche tribes offered to share their reservations in southwestern Oklahoma with the Chiricahua, so Naiche and 295 members of his band moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where they became the Fort Sill Apache Tribe. In 1913, Naiche moved to the Mescalero Indian Reservation in New Mexico.


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