Chiricahua
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Photo of sunrise over Chiricahua Mountains in SE Arizona during November. Fall colors enhanced with select color filters and layer with overlay to brighten overall photo in photoshop. This art work is registered copyright© 2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.
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Photo of the sandstone spires in the Chiricahua National Monument in SE Arizona. Photo enhanced in selective color filters. / This art work is registered copyright© 2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International. /
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Chiricahua National Monument. / An Apache hideout and stronghold… / That rock above me is wedged in by the walls just right. / Terry took the photo and I worked on it in PS for here.
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Once dominating a vast area that extended as far as the Great Plains, the Apache were gradually pushed down by the Sioux and Comanche into their homeland of what is now New Mexico (Arizona was part of New Mexico until 1863). Various tribes; Lipan, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, and Kiowa-Apache, all withdrew into their present locations in Arizona and New Mexico. One of the most important holy beings for Apaches is White-Painted Woman, also known as Changing Woman or White Shell Woman. Her sons, Killer of Enemies and Child Born of Water, triumphed over the evils of the world personified as monsters, making the world safe for humans. The Mountain Spirits ensure the well-being of the people by protecting them from epidemic diseases and enemies. The Mountain Spirit Dancers or Crown Dancers “become” these sacred beings in the same way that the Hopi who dance specific katsinam become those katsina spirits. The Western Apache call them the gaan while the Eastern Apache know them as gaa’he. Embodying the Mountain Spirits, they dance at night, bringing the spiritual world into physical manifestation. Their heads crowned with wooden slat headdresses, four Mountain Spirit Dancers and a clown wield their wooden swords as they dance around the fire.— The Apache were fiercely independent survivalists and the last people to surrender to the domination of the white man in North America, a fight that lasted forty years. They owned nothing and everything. They did as they pleased and bowed to no man… They were mighty warriors who depended on success in raiding for wealth and honor. To their families they were kind and gentle, but they could be unbelievably cruel to their enemies…
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Photo of the Chiricahua Mountains on the eastern side of the state of Arizona as seen from the New Mexico side. These mountains have seen many Spaniard from the 1500’s bring gold and silver out of the area by burro going back to Mexico. Photo enhanced in Photoshop. / This art work is registered copyright© 2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.
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Chiricahua Mountains at sunset. This is the place that Apache chief Cochise once called home. It is located in Cochise County, Arizona.
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Chiricahua Mountains, AZ
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Photo of entrance to the El Tigre Mine in the Chiricahua mountains in Pinery Canyon SE Arizona. Mine has been closed for a number of years because it is now in the Forestry and they will not let you mine in the spring. Noise levels disturbing nature during this time. / This art work is registered copyright© 2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.
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Once dominating a vast area that extended as far as the Great Plains, the Apache were gradually pushed down by the Sioux and Comanche into their homeland of what is now New Mexico (Arizona was part of New Mexico until 1863). Various tribes; Lipan, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, and Kiowa-Apache, all withdrew into their present locations in Arizona and New Mexico. One of the most important holy beings for Apaches is White-Painted Woman, also known as Changing Woman or White Shell Woman. Her sons, Killer of Enemies and Child Born of Water, triumphed over the evils of the world personified as monsters, making the world safe for humans. The Mountain Spirits ensure the well-being of the people by protecting them from epidemic diseases and enemies. The Mountain Spirit Dancers or Crown Dancers “become” these sacred beings in the same way that the Hopi who dance specific katsinam become those katsina spirits. The Western Apache call them the gaan while the Eastern Apache know them as gaa’he. Embodying the Mountain Spirits, they dance at night, bringing the spiritual world into physical manifestation. Their heads crowned with wooden slat headdresses, four Mountain Spirit Dancers and a clown wield their wooden swords as they dance around the fire.— The Apache were fiercely independent survivalists and the last people to surrender to the domination of the white man in North America, a fight that lasted forty years. They owned nothing and everything. They did as they pleased and bowed to no man… They were mighty warriors who depended on success in raiding for wealth and honor. To their families they were kind and gentle, but they could be unbelievably cruel to their enemies…
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This was taken at the Chiricahua Mts. The rock formations are magnificent.
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Chiricahua Mts. at the end of the day!
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Chiricahua (also Chiricahua Apaches, Chiricagui, Apaches de Chiricahui, Chiricahues, Chilicague, Chilecagez, Chiricagua) (pronounced /ˌtʃɪrɨˈkɑːwə/; AHD: [chĭ-rĭ-kä´-wə]) refers to a group of bands of Apache that formerly lived in the general areas of southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona in the United States, and in northern Sonora and Chihuahua in Mexico (it is not possible to precisely define the exact boundaries of their territory).—-—-—-Led by Cochise and later by Goyaałé (more famously known as Geronimo), this Apache band was the last to resist U.S. government control of the southwest. In 1852, a treaty was signed between the U.S. and the Chiricahuas. During the 1850s, miners and settlers moved into Chiricahua Territory, and the Apache population diminished because of starvation, disease, and attacks. In 1861, the Chiricahuas began fighting the U.S. after Mangas Coloradas was whipped by miners and Cochise’s relatives were killed by the U.S. Army. In 1863, Mangas Coloradas was killed by the U.S. Army when he attempted to sue for peace. The army took him into custody, and he was killed that night. The murder and mutilation of Mangas’ body only increased the hostility between Apaches and the United States, with more or less constant war continuing for nearly another 25 years. / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / In 1872, the Chiricahua Apache Reservation was established, which only remained open for 4 years. In 1877, all Apaches were concentrated on one reservation and the others were closed. In 1883, the Chiricahua campaigned into Mexico, returning to the reservation the following year. / -—-—-—-—-—-—- / They finally surrendered in 1886 and were exiled to Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. Eventually most were moved to the Fort Sill military reservation in Oklahoma until 1913, when they were allowed to return to what is now Arizona. Many still live in Oklahoma or on the Mescalero reservation in New Mexico. Their last stronghold was the Chiricahua Mountains, in southeastern Arizona, part of which is now inside Chiricahua National Monument.
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American Museum of Natural History’s Southwest Research Sation
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I took this photo at the Chiricahua National Monument in S.E. Arizona.
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Old Tree at the Chiricahua Mountains National Park
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