Fighting broke out when the Army tried to force the Modoc to return to the reservation. The Indians fled to an area near Tule Lake in California. At a peace council, Captain Jack killed General Canby when the General said he could not withdraw his troops from the area. Captain Jack fled, but the Army captured and hanged him.
COCHISE [1800?-1874]
[by Edgar Perry]
He was an Indian chief who fought white settlers in what is now Arizona and New Mexico. He led the Chiricahua band of the Apache Indians.
During the 1850's they were friendly with the whites. The peaceful relations ended in 1861, when Cochise was falsely accused of kidnapping a settler's child The Army captured him and several members of his tribe and ordered him to return the child. Cochise escaped, but the Army seized six members of the tribe and threatened to kill them if the child was not returned. Cochise took several whites as hostages and offered to exchange them for the Apache. The Army refused and so, he hanged his hostages and went to war against the settlers.
In 1869, a frontiersman named Thomas J. Jeffords led General Oliver O. Howard to discuss peace with Cochise. Cochise agreed to stop fighting and moved his band to a reservation in Arizona.
One formidable tribe, the Comanche, remain to be discussed in Homeland Security-Part 6
COCHISE [1800?-1874]
[by Edgar Perry]
He was an Indian chief who fought white settlers in what is now Arizona and New Mexico. He led the Chiricahua band of the Apache Indians.
During the 1850's they were friendly with the whites. The peaceful relations ended in 1861, when Cochise was falsely accused of kidnapping a settler's child The Army captured him and several members of his tribe and ordered him to return the child. Cochise escaped, but the Army seized six members of the tribe and threatened to kill them if the child was not returned. Cochise took several whites as hostages and offered to exchange them for the Apache. The Army refused and so, he hanged his hostages and went to war against the settlers.
In 1869, a frontiersman named Thomas J. Jeffords led General Oliver O. Howard to discuss peace with Cochise. Cochise agreed to stop fighting and moved his band to a reservation in Arizona.
One formidable tribe, the Comanche, remain to be discussed in Homeland Security-Part 6
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