Ulzana


Ulzana, was a Tsokanende Apache war chief, brother of Chihuahua.

Biography

Ulzana is best known for leading a raid in 1885 through Arizona and New Mexico with only 11 Mogollon warriors, riding 1200 miles, killing 36 Pindah and Mexicans, killing many settlers, including women and children, stealing stock, and engaging in rape and mutilation of civilian captives. One of the bandits was killed by San Carlos Apache, and went safely to Mexico in the last days of December. Ulzana surrendered, along with his brother Chihuahua and old Nana, on 3 March 1886, when 77 Apache made their entrance into Fort Bowie to be arrested. Despite the crimes they had committed, they were not hung, but rather were held in the reservation, and made no further attempts at escape. Ulzana died in 1909 in captivity, in what may have been considerable by Apache standards to have been a death in submission, having surrendered himself to captivity some years prior, even in light of the brutal raids they praised through their oral traditions.

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