1886 onward
Imprisonment / removalBook sources
Geronimo’s surrender and Chiricahua imprisonment
Southwest, Florida, Alabama and Oklahoma; Chiricahua Apache people
After years of resistance, surrender was followed by removal and prolonged imprisonment of Chiricahuas, including people outside the fighting group. Collective punishment reached families as well as combatants.
Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.
Context / qualification
The route and destinations varied; the ebook compresses the Alabama stage and later return options.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8