Victorio's War, or the Victorio Campaign, was an armed conflict between the Apache followers of Chief Victorio, the United States, and Mexico beginning in September 1879. Faced with arrest and forcible relocation from his homeland in New Mexico to San Carlos Indian Reservation in southeastern Arizona, Victorio led a guerrilla war across southern New Mexico, west Texas and northern Mexico. Victorio fought many battles and skirmishes with the United States Army and raided several settlements until the Mexican Army killed him and most of his warriors in October 1880 in the Battle of Tres Castillos. After Victorio's death, his lieutenant Nana led a raid in 1881.
Victorio
A memorial to Victorio's opponents, the African-American Buffalo Soldiers
Artist's depiction of the Battle of Quitman Canyon, also called Tinaja de las Palmas
Apache prisoners and Mexican soldiers after the Battle of Tres Castillos
The Apache are several Southern Athabaskan languageāspeaking peoples of the Southwest, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico. They are linguistically related to the Navajo. They migrated from the Athabascan homelands in the north into the Southwest between 1000 and 1500 CE.
Kathy Kitcheyan, chairwoman of the San Carlos Apache
Essa-queta, Plains Apache chief
Young Jicarilla Apache boy, New Mexico, 2009
A Western Apache woman from the San Carlos group