Real Time Photo Apache Scout Dandy Jim, ca 1870 Fort Apache Theodore Roosevelt School National Historic Landmark ~ Fort Apache, Arizona
After several years of service as an Apache Scout, Dandy Jim was convicted of desertion & murder after the Cibecue Fight & was hanged in 1882.
Sergeant No. 4, Dandy Jim
photograph by Henry Buehman in the late 1870's.
The establishment on May 16, 1870, of the post that would become Fort Apache marked a major milestone in the imposition of foreign government systems on Apache people. But these systems were not introduced into an empty landscape. The lands that are now Eastern Arizona are part of an ancient sacred, economic, cultural & political geography, Ndee Dawa Dabini'-the Apache Homeland.
Through countless generations Apache people & their neighbors from other indigenous communities came to understand & appreciate the land & its products & maintained extensive & complex relationships among peoples & places.
Fort Apache dramatically changed forever White Mountain Apache life. However, the fort's founding was not simply a case of the U.S. Army asserting its will through sheer force. It was instead the result of years of interaction & negotiation between White Mountain Apache leaders & non-native newcomers to the Southwest.
Real Time Photo Apache Scout Dandy Jim, ca 1870 Fort Apache Theodore Roosevelt School National Historic Landmark ~ Fort Apache, Arizona
After several years of service as an Apache Scout, Dandy Jim was convicted of desertion & murder after the Cibecue Fight & was hanged in 1882.
Sergeant No. 4, Dandy Jim
photograph by Henry Buehman in the late 1870's.
The establishment on May 16, 1870, of the post that would become Fort Apache marked a major milestone in the imposition of foreign government systems on Apache people. But these systems were not introduced into an empty landscape. The lands that are now Eastern Arizona are part of an ancient sacred, economic, cultural & political geography, Ndee Dawa Dabini'-the Apache Homeland.
Through countless generations Apache people & their neighbors from other indigenous communities came to understand & appreciate the land & its products & maintained extensive & complex relationships among peoples & places.
Fort Apache dramatically changed forever White Mountain Apache life. However, the fort's founding was not simply a case of the U.S. Army asserting its will through sheer force. It was instead the result of years of interaction & negotiation between White Mountain Apache leaders & non-native newcomers to the Southwest.