biography
pronunciation:
[kohchees]
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| lived:
| (?1812–74)
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| biography:
| Chiricahua Apache chief, born in present-day Arizona or New Mexico, USA. Initially friendly towards whites, he embarked on a campaign against them in 1861 after he had been imprisoned on the false charge of kidnapping a white child. With the murder of his father-in-law, Mangas Coloradas, in 1863, he became the main war chief of the Apaches. For many years he engaged in a series of violent actions against white settlers and the US army, but he was gradually restricted to a small mountainous range. After winning assurances from the US government that he and his band could remain in the Chiricahua Mts, he surrendered in 1872. |
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