Chiricahua is a band of Apache Native Americans.
Ba-keitz-ogie (Yellow Coyote), U.S. Army Scout
Chiricahua National Monument entrance roadway
Chiricahua Apaches as they arrived at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania
Goyaałé (Geronimo), in native garb
Mescalero or Mescalero Apache is an Apache tribe of Southern Athabaskan–speaking Native Americans. The tribe is federally recognized as the Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Apache Reservation,
Chiricahua
…three federally recognized tribes: the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, located near Apache, Oklahoma, with a small reservation outside Deming, New Mexico; the Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation near Ruidoso, New Mexico; and the San Carlos Apache Tribe in southeastern Arizona. The Chiricahua Apache, also written as Chiricagui, Apaches de…
Two Mescalero women, with tipis and ramada (to the left) est. c. 1900
Mescalero Apache Tribal Administrative Offices and Community Center in Mescalero, New Mexico
Mescalero painted boy; photo entitled Long Walk of the Navajo. After being defeated by United States military forces, most of the Navajo were marched over 350-mile (560 km) during the winter of 1864 and incarcerated at Bosque Redondo, New Mexico with the Mescalero Apache.
Gorgonia, Sierrablanca Mescalero medicine man