Chapter 18 17. The last chief of the Apache tribe

1880 On June 1, the population of the United States was 5,055,783. 1881 On March 4, Garfield was inaugurated as President of the United States.On March 13, Russian anarchists assassinated Russian Emperor Alexander.Garfield was assassinated on July 2 and died on September 19; Arthur succeeded him as president. 1882 On April 3, in St. Joseph, Missouri, Greenwoodsman Jesse James was shot and killed.On September 4, Edison turned on the first commercial electric light in New York City's Grand Central Station.Mark Twain's The Wandering Boy is published. 1883 On March 24, the first telephone conversation between New York and Chicago took place.On November 3, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that American Indians are aliens and dependents by birth.Stevenson Treasure Island Publishing.

1884 In January, Russia abolished the poll tax, the last relic of serfdom.On March 13, in Sudan, the siege of Khartoum began. 1885 On June 26, Khartoum was captured by Muhammad Ahmad, and Governor George Gordon was killed. [Translation note: Gordon once helped the leader of the Qing court, Sheng Jun, defeat the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. 】 March 4, Cleveland is the first Democrat to serve as President of the United States since the Civil War. 1886 On May 1, there were general strikes across the United States to demand an eight-hour working day.On May 4, anarchists bombed police officers in Highmark Square in Chicago, killing six and injuring sixty.On October 28, the bronze statue of the Statue of Liberty was erected on Bedloe Island.On December 8, the American Federation of Labor was formed.

I live peacefully with my family, eat well, sleep well, take care of my people, and be content.I don't know where the bad news came from in the first place?What we do is very good, our people are also doing well, and my behavior is also good.I never killed a man or a horse, American or Indian, and I don't know what it is with the men who run us, they know it, and call me a bad man, the worst bad man; But what have I done?My family and I live peacefully under the shade of the big tree, and do what General Kruger told me, and I must follow his advice.Now I want to know who ordered me to be arrested.I pray to the sky, I pray to the night, I pray to God, I pray to the sun, let me and my family live in peace.I don't know why, but people say bad things about me, and it's often in the papers that I'm going to be hanged, and I don't want that kind of news any more.Such news should not be in the papers when one only wants to do business.At present, there are not many of my people left.They have done bad things in the past, but I want them to correct themselves now, so let's not mention those again, they are the few people left in our clan.Geassler (Gironimo)

Since Kejieshi's death in 1874, the eldest son Tasha has succeeded as the chief of the Apache Mountain Tribe, and Jeffrey has continued to serve as the administrator of the Apache Pass Reservation.Unlike his father, Tasha had no way of commanding the unwavering loyalty of the Mountain Tribe.Within a few months, the Apaches were torn apart, and despite the zeal of Tasha and Jeffy, the attack that had been strictly prohibited during Kejishi's lifetime occurred again.Because the Big Mountain Reservation is close to Mexico, these small groups of looters regard the reservation as a transit station and a refuge for going in and out of Arizona and Mexico.Land-hungry residents, mine owners, and politicians immediately seized the moment and demanded that all the hill tribes be relocated elsewhere.

Before 1875, the Indian policy of the United States changed to concentrate all ethnic groups in Indian lands or large local reservations.At one million hectares, the White Mountains in eastern Arizona are larger than all the other Apache reservations in the Southwest combined.Its management is located in the town of San Carlos, which has become the administrative center of the seven Apache tribes. As soon as officials in Washington received reports of harassment from the Mountain Tribe reservation Moved to San Carlos. The location of this management post, at the confluence of the San Carlos and Shina rivers, was considered by Army officers to be the least desirable hardship station.An officer wrote: This is a gravel plain, about ten meters higher than the river bed, dotted with monotonous brick houses of the administration.Down and out, frustrating, scattered rows of aspen trees, they are shriveled, almost without a leaf, dotted the path of the stream.The amount of rain was so abnormal that it was like a symbol.An almost continuous dry, hot, dusty and gritty wind swept across the plain, stripping away every trace of vegetation.In summer, the temperature in the shaded place is 43 degrees Celsius, which is still cool.Throughout the year, there are millions of flies, gnats, and unnamed beetles.

Here in 1875 it was Clone who had rescued Eskiminsing and his Areviba tribe at the Grant a few months before, and helped them to make their way along the Shina River. On irrigated land, it is practically self-sufficient.With his tenacious methods, Clone forced the military to withdraw from the vast White Mountain reservation, and replaced the cavalry with an Apache inspectorate to manage the area, and also established an Apache court system. judge the sinner.While his superiors were somewhat suspicious of the unorthodox method of cloning and allowing the Apaches to make their own way, they had nothing to say about his success in keeping the peace at San Carlos.

On May 3, 1867, the cloning administrator received a telegram from the director of Lifan, ordering him to go to the Dashan Reservation Area to be responsible for the Indians there, remove Jeffy from the post of administrator, and at the same time send the Dashan tribe Moving to San Carlos, Clone had little enthusiasm for this unappetizing position, and doubted that the freedom-loving mountain tribes would be able to adapt themselves to the modest life of the White Mountain Reservation.Insisting that the Army cavalry be kept at a distance, he took his Indian constables to Apache Pass to inform the Mountain Tribe of the forced relocation.He found Tasha and Jeffy's cooperation unexpectedly, and Tasha, like his father Ke Jieshi, only asked for peace.If the Mountain Tribe were to leave their homeland and go to the White Mountains in order to keep the peace, they would do so.However, only half of the hill tribes traveled overland to San Carlos.By the time the Army entered the abandoned reservation to round up the recalcitrants, most had escaped across the border and into Mexico.One of their chiefs was the forty-six-year-old Geysler, known to the whites as Geronimo, a member of the Bedongkoshi tribe of the Apaches, who in his youth had allied himself with the Red Sleeves, and later Following Ke Jieshi, he now considers himself a mountain tribe.

While the Mountain Tribes who volunteered to go to San Carlos didn't feel the same affinity for Clone the Administrator as the rest of the Apache tribe did, they didn't bother him either.In the late summer of 1876, when Clone obtained permission from the Legislative Council to lead a group of twenty-two Apaches on a trip east, he invited Tasha to go with him.Unfortunately, when the group visited Washington, Tasha contracted pneumonia and died, and was buried in the Congressional Cemetery.When Clone returned to San Carlos, Tasha's younger brother, Naijie, informed him.You took my brother away, Naijie said: "He is in good health, but you came back without my brother, you said he died, I don't know, maybe you didn't take good care of him, let Bai Yi The evil spirits of that time took his life, my heart hurts so much.

Cloning wanted to convince him, and asked Eskiminsin to tell the story of Tasha's death and burial, but these Dashan people still doubted it.Without Jeffy's advice, they're not sure how far to trust clones or other white people. During the winter of 1876-77, their relatives occasionally slipped into the reservation from inside Mexico, bringing news and news from the other side of the border.They had heard that Gironimo and his company were attacking their blood-enemies, the Mexicans, and had amassed a large stock of cattle and horses.In the spring, Gironimo drove the stolen cattle to New Mexico, sold them to the rancher whites, and bought new guns, new hats, new boots, and lots of whiskey.These people of the Big Mountain Tribe live in a hidden place, near the hot spring management office of their Tang clan, the Liushan Tribe, whose chief is Victor.

In March, 1877, Colonel was ordered by Washington to take his Apache police to the Hot Springs and transfer the Indians there to San Carlos.In addition, he was asked to arrest Geronimo, and other fugitives from the mountain tribes found in the vicinity. Gironimo later said about the passage: San Carlos sent two companies of scouts, and they sent word that Victor and I were going to town.The messengers didn't say what we were asked for, but they seemed friendly, and we thought it was a meeting, so we rode off to meet the officer.As soon as we were in town, we were met by soldiers, who disarmed us, took us both to the headquarters, and tried us martial law.They asked only a few questions, then released Victor and sent me to solitary confinement.Tanma took me to the brig and chained me up.I asked, why did this to me, and they said it was because I left Apache Pass.

I don't think I'm under the GIs at Apache, or where I'm going, I have to ask them first. I was held as a prisoner for four months, and during that time I was transferred to San Carlos.I thought I had a trial then, even though I wasn't in court.In fact, I can't say whether there was another trial, but I was told that there was, and in short, let me go. Although Victor slightly did not get arrested.He and most of the Apache Hot Springs were transferred to San Carlos in 1877.The clones try to win Victor's trust, granting him even more power than they had at the hot springs.During these weeks it seemed that a peaceful Apache society was developing on the White Mountain Reservation; but then the Army suddenly sent a company of soldiers to Shina River (Tomsburg).The Army announced that it was a precautionary move, since at San Carlos nearly all of the hardiest Indians in the region were concentrated. Cloning was so furious that he sent a telegram to the director of the Lifan Bureau, asking him to authorize him to equip another Apache police force to replace the soldiers, and asked the army to withdraw.Washington newspapers learned of the daring request of cloning and published it. The news aroused the anger of the War Department, and in Arizona and New Mexico, contractors with contracts with the military feared that all troops would withdraw and make a lot of money. The business of money was lost, and they all condemned this arrogant twenty-six-year-old, saying that he had no shame, since the Apache war broke out, what thousands of troops could not do, but he thought he could do it alone . The Army Corps remained in San Carlos, and Clone resigned.Popular as he was, he never learned to think like an Apache, to make himself an Apache as Jeffrey had done.He simply did not understand the chiefs who endured and suffered to the end, heroes who would rather die than lose their fortunes.In the eyes of the clones, Gironimo, Victorio, Nana, Rocco, Nej, and the other fighters are lawless, thieves, murderers, and drunks too conservative to accept the white way of life.So Clone left the Apaches in San Carlos; he went to Tombstone, Arizona, and started a reformist newspaper, Epitaph. Before the end of the summer of 1877, the situation on the San Carlos Reservation became chaotic.Although the number of Indians had increased by several hundred, many supplies were delayed.To make matters worse, instead of going to the various camps to distribute rations, the newly arrived administrators asked all the tribes to go to the general administration.Some Apaches had to walk 30 kilometers. If the elderly and children couldn't get there, no rations would be given.Miners also occupied the northeast part of the reserve and refused to leave.The autonomous police force established by the clones began to unravel. On the night of September 2, Victor slightly led his hot spring tribe to leave the reservation area and set off back to the hot spring.The Apache police pursued and recaptured most of the mules and horses they had taken from the White Mountain Lodge, but let them go.Victor fought several battles with the ranch and soldiers along the way, and arrived at the hot springs.The Army kept him and his people there for a year under the guard of soldiers sent out at Fort Wingert, and then at the end of 1878 the order came to send them back to San Carlos. Victor slightly begged the officers to let the tribe live in the homeland where he grew up, but when he knew it was impossible, he shouted: You can put our women and children in the cart, but my men will not go! Victorio and some eighty soldiers fled into Willow Mountain, away from his family, and spent a hard winter.In February, 1878, he and several men entered the Hot Springs garrison camp, to surrender if the Army returned their families from San Carlos.The Army, after weeks of delaying this determination, finally announced that it could back down.The Apache Hot Springs tribe could make a new home in New Mexico, but they had to live with the Mesclero tribe in Tulararosa.Victor slightly agreed, and this was the third time in two years that he and his tribe had to start life from scratch. In 1879, an old case of horse theft and murder was reopened; against Victorio, law enforcement officers entered the reservation to arrest him.Victor slipped away, and this time he made up his mind that he would never live on a reservation and live on the mercy of white people; he decided he was doomed, and so were all the Apaches. flee unless they fight back like they did in Mexico when the Spaniards came. Victorio established a stronghold in Mexico, began to recruit troops, and formed a guerrilla army to fight against the United States forever.By the end of 1879, his party consisted of two hundred Mesclero and Mountain tribe warriors.For horses and provisions they attacked Mexican farms, and then made bold raids into New Mexico and Texas, killing the inhabitants wherever they were found, and laying ambushes on cavalry, Then quickly cross the border and go back. This kind of constant fighting continued, and Victor's hatred deepened, and he became a cruel and ruthless killer, plundering and killing the victims.Some of his men thought he was a madman and left him.A reward was offered for his head, as high as five thousand yuan.In the end, the U.S. and Mexican militaries decided to cooperate and concentrate their efforts to pursue him to the end.On October 14, 1880, the army trapped Victorio's group in Sanbaogang, between Jihua Flower Market in Mexico and El Paso in the United States, and massacred seventy-eight of them. The Apaches, including Victor, captured sixty-eight women and children, and about thirty fighters escaped. Among those who escaped was a warrior of the Liushan tribe, who was over seven ranks old.His name was Nanar, and he had been fighting Spanish-speaking whites and English-speaking whites for as long as he could remember.In Na Na's heart, there is no doubt that this resistance must continue to the end.He was going to gather another guerrilla army. The best source of fighters was the reserved area, where hundreds of young men were imprisoned, but there was nothing to do.In the summer of 1881 this little scarred and wrinkled Apache crossed the Gran River with a small retinue.In less than a month, they fought eight battles, captured 200 horses, and fled back to Mexico, with a cavalry army of 1,000 men on their heels.Nanar's attack was not in the White Mountain area at all, but the Indians there heard his bold attack. The army responded and sent hundreds of cavalry to guard the reservation. In September, the hill tribes on the San Carlos Reservation panicked as cavalry marched near their camp.Rumors spread that the army was preparing to arrest all the former rebel leaders.One night this month, Gilonimo, Qiaowu, Naijie, and about seventy other mountain tribesmen slipped out of Baishan Mountain and galloped toward their old stronghold in southern Mexico, Mount Qiniang. Six months later (April 1882), these well-equipped mountain tribes returned to the White Mountains.Their determination to free all of their tribe, and any Apaches willing to follow them back to Mexico, is a feat that no one else can imagine.They leaped into Chief Rocco's camp and persuaded the rest of the Mountain and Hot Spring tribes to go to Mexico. Six companies of cavalry quickly pursued it, under the command of Colonel Forsyth (who survived the Battle of Rome to the death, see Chapter VII Only the dead are good Indians.), at Horseshoe Canyon, Seth overtook the fleeing Apaches, but the Indian rearguard fought well and held off the cavalry for a long time until the main force crossed the river into Mexico.Here, however, an unexpected blow was struck. An infantry regiment of the Mexican Army unexpectedly encountered the Apache column and killed more than half of the women and children who rode in front of the team. Among the chieftains and warriors who escaped were Rocco, Nej, Chedo, and Gironimo.Suffering and depopulated, they immediately joined the partisans of old Nanar; for all of them now it was a battle for survival. Every recent commotion in the White Mountains has increased the number of soldiers who flock to Fort Thomas, Fort Apache, and Fort Boie, and each increase has caused more outcry from the Apaches on the reservation. Uneasy, more people fled to Mexico, and they inevitably attacked farms and pastures along the way of escape. In order to restore order from the turmoil, the Army reappointed General Krueger. Compared with ten years ago, when he left Arizona to fight the Sioux and Sai'an tribes northward, he was completely two people.He had learned from them, from the Baka during Li Xiong's trial, that Indians are people too, a point of view that most of his colleagues did not accept. On September 4, 1882, at Whipple Barracks, Kruger took command of the Arizona Military District and hurried to the White Mountain Reservation where he held many meetings with the Apaches at San Carlos and Fort Apache. meeting.He found some Apaches and talked to them privately.Immediately I detected a general feeling of distrust of our people among all Apache tribes.He reported: It was very difficult for me to talk to them, but after overcoming their suspicion, they all talked to me freely.They told me that they had lost faith in everybody, who and what to believe; and many irresponsible people, often told them that if they were disarmed they would be attacked by cavalry on the reservation, Moved from home.They quickly came to the conclusion that it was far more manly to stand up and kill than to be wiped out like that.Kruger believed that the Apaches on the reservation not only had the best cause to complain, but also displayed remarkable restraint in keeping the peace. As soon as Kruger started the investigation, he found that the rations and goods purchased by the government for the survival and life of the Indians had been swallowed up by despicable administrators and other shameless whites.He found ample evidence that the whites were trying to provoke Apache violence so they could drive the reds off the reservation and open the land to land grabbers. Kruger ordered that all white people who squatted and mined land in the reserved area should be cleared immediately, and then asked the Registrar Bureau to cooperate fully to implement reforms.The tribes are not forced to live near San Carlos or Fort Apache, but have the right to choose any part of the reservation to build their own homes or ranches.Hay contracts were also given to Apaches, not to white suppliers; Army units paid cash for surplus corn and vegetables grown by Indians.They also need to manage themselves, reorganize their own police force, and hold courts within the clan, just like in the time of cloning management.Kruger promised that unless the Indians found it impossible to control themselves, no soldiers would be seen on the reservation. At first, the Indians were suspicious and fearful. They still remembered Kruger the gray wolf's harsh methods when he hunted down Ke Jieshi and the Dashan tribe, but they immediately realized that what he said meant something.The rations were much more plentiful, the stewards and traders stopped cheating them, the soldiers didn't bully them, and the gray wolf encouraged them to raise livestock and find better places to grow corn and beans.As long as they stay on the reservation, they are free again. But they can't forget their relatives in Mexico. It's true freedom. There have always been some boys who slipped out and went south, and some came back, bringing exciting news of adventure and freedom. Kruger also thought carefully about the Apache Mountain and Hot Spring tribes in Mexico. He knew that it was only a matter of time before these people would cross the border to raid.Recently, the U.S. and Mexican governments signed an agreement allowing troops from each country to cross the border in pursuit of Apache rebels.He set out to take advantage of the agreement, hoping that by doing so, the citizens of Arizona and New Mexico would be spared from forcing him to start a war. This is often the case, Krueger said: newspapers on the frontier publish all sorts of exaggerated and untrue stories about the Indians, and these stories are widely sold in other parts of the country, and the newspapers are very expensive, and the Indians are rarely heard. Newspapers in this regard adopted.Under such circumstances, the people have a false idea of ​​the matter.Then when the turmoil really came, the attention of the society was dedicated to condemning the Indians, their crimes, and their cruelty, but those villains who drove the Indians to Liangshan escaped without incident, and there was a voice of condemnation The person with the loudest voice.No one knows this fact better than the Indians, and they can be forgiven for thinking that a government designed to punish them is unjust, and allows the white man to rob them at will. The thought of another guerrilla war with the Apaches gave Kruger a terrible headache.He knew it was practically impossible to fight them in the rough country.We can't bear to fight them for all their interests, he confessed frankly: as a people, the facts that exist now, we are too damned.In the future, we must satisfy them, treat them fairly, and protect them from white men. Kruger believed that his good intentions could convince Gironimo and other guerrilla leaders not to fight them, but to talk to them.The best place to negotiate should be one of their own strongholds in Mexico, where there are no shameless people who instigate the Indian war, and there are no people who spread rumors to set off a war to make war money and seize land. While awaiting a frontier raid that would give him an excuse to enter Mexico, he quietly set about organizing his expeditionary force.Among them were 50 selected soldiers and interpreters, and about 200 young Apache boys from the reservation, many of whom had done one or two robberies in Mexico.In early 1883, he mobilized part of his troops on the track of the newly built Southern Pacific Railway, which runs through Arizona and is within about 80 kilometers from the border.On March 21st, three little chiefs, Bianbi, Jihuahua and Yingjun, attacked a prospecting camp near Tombstone Town.As soon as Kruger heard of this, he made his final preparations for going to Mexico.However, it wasn't until weeks of searching that his scouts found the location of the Mountain Tribe's base camp, on Mount Qiniang in Mexico. In the season of green leaves (May), Guilonimo led a group to attack the ranches in Mexico to get horses. The Mexican soldiers pursued him, but Guilonimo set up an ambush and beat them up. escaped.While the Apaches were on their way back to the base, a man who had stayed at the camp as a guard came to fetch Geronimo and told him that Kruger, the gray wolf, had captured all the women and children in the camp. Geronimo's cousin, Betsin, who was also with this group of Apaches, later talked about how Geronimo sent two old soldiers with a truce flag to inquire about the gray wolf. Why do you do it.They did not return to the place where Geronimo was standing, Betsin said: "These two only returned to the place halfway up the mountain, and after beckoning us all to go down, our soldiers went down the hillside to General Kruger's camp, After a long meeting of the chiefs there, we all surrendered to the general. In fact, Gironimo had three long meetings with Kruger before they reached an agreement.The Apache leader declared that he had always wanted peace, but that he had been treated badly by the bad whites in San Carlos.Kruger agrees that might be true, but if Guilonimo were to return to the reservation, the Wolves would see to it that he would be treated fairly.However, all mountain tribes who go back must grow crops and raise livestock to earn their own living.I will not disarm you, Kruger added: because I am not afraid of you. Guilonimo liked Kruger's straightforward attitude, but when the general announced that he must launch his army back to Arizona in a day or two, Guilonimo was determined to try him, sure. Kruger didn't really believe him.The Apache leader said it would take months to get all the people together.I will stay here, he said, until I gather the last men, women, and children of the Mountain Tribe.Flat Nose also stayed behind to assist him, and together the two of them would bring the entire clan back to San Carlos. To Gilonimo's surprise, Kruger agreed to the proposal.On May 30th, the clan team set off for the north, with a total of 251 women and children, and 123 soldiers, including Luo Ke, Yixiu (the son of Hongxiu), Jihuahua, handsome, and even And that wrinkled Nanar, all war-chiefs except Geronimo and Flat-Nosed. Eight months on, it was Kruger's turn to surprise.Gironimo and Nose kept their word, and they crossed the frontier in February, 1884, and were escorted to San Carlos.Unfortunately, Gironimo made a mistake and followed along with a large herd of cattle that he had stolen from the Mexicans.Betsin said: From the point of view of Gironimo, this matter is quite legitimate. He is rushing to provide a good supply of meat for his people.However, the authorities took a different view and released the cattle from the chief. Honest Gray Wolf ordered the cattle to be sold, and then returned the proceeds of $1,762.50 to the Mexican government, asking them to distribute the money to the original owners who could still find it. For more than a year General Kruger could boast that the Indians in Arizona and New Mexico were free from any kind of atrocity or plunder.Gironimo and Flatnose are competing with each other to develop the ranch, and Kruger keeps an eye on their caretaker to send out enough supplies.However, outside the reservation and outside the army camp, there was a lot of criticism of Kruger, and of Indians like him who were too casual.The papers which he had accused of publishing all sorts of exaggerations and falsehoods about the Indians turned on him.Some rumormongers also spread rumors that Kruger was in Mexico and surrendered to Geronimo, and the exchange with the mountain tribe chief was to let him escape alive.As for Gironimo, they described him as a special evil spirit, inventing dozens and hundreds of stories of atrocities, and called on the vigilante to hang him, if the government did not do so.Mick Fuli, the official clerk of the Mountain Tribe, told Gilonimo about the reports in the newspaper.When a person wants to go the right way, Guilonimo criticized: Reports like this should not be published in newspapers. After the time of corn planting (the spring of 1885), the people of the mountain tribe became more and more dissatisfied. Except for receiving rations, gambling, quarreling, loitering, and drinking guerrilla (heartbeat wine), the men almost did nothing. There is almost nothing to do.Heartbeat wine is strictly prohibited in the reservation area, but the Dashan tribe has enough corn to make wine, and one of the few joys left in the past is drinking hemp. On the night of May 17th, Guilonimo, Yixiu, Jihuahua, and Lao Nanar, who had drunk 80% of the dead wine, decided to go to Mexico.They went to see Bianbi and invited him to go with him, but Bianbi was sober and refused to join the group.He and Geronimo quarreled so violently that they almost got into a violent fight.There were ninety-two women and children, eight boys, and thirty-four men who had left the reserve.As soon as they left San Carlos, Gironimo cut the telephone line. When everything seemed to be going well, there were many reasons given by both whites and Apaches for this sudden escape from the reservation.Some people say it's because of the death-drinking feast; others say that bad news is spreading around them about what the hill tribes are doing and they're afraid of arrest.When the tribe was transported to San Carlos, they were handcuffed at one point, and Betsin said some leaders were determined not to be treated like this again. What Gironimo later explained was another way: Before I left, an Indian named Vidisco talked to me, and he said: They are going to arrest you.But I ignored his words, knowing that I had done nothing wrong; and Xiurui, the wife of Yixiu, told me that they were going to arrest me and send me, together with Yixiu, to a confinement room.I knew that the American soldiers, the Apache soldiers, from Flat Nose, and from Mick Fury, said that the Americans wanted to arrest me and hang me, so I left. The escape of Gironimo's gang from Arizona was the signal for the wild rumors.Top headlines in newspapers: The Apaches Gone!The name of Gironimo became a rallying cry for bloodshed.Seeing the lucrative opportunity of a major war looming, the Tuson gang of contractors called on General Kruger to rush in cavalry to protect defenseless whites from the massacres of the Apaches.Gironimo, however, was desperately trying to avoid confrontation with any white citizen; all he wanted was to hurry his people across the border to the ancient sanctuary of Qinnian Mountain.The mountain tribes did not camp for two days and two nights.On the way, Chief Jihuahua changed his mind about going to Mexico, took his part and left the road, intending to turn back to the reserved area.The chasing troops just caught up with Ji Huahua and forced him to fight, making him bloody and looting along the way before crossing the border into Mexico.Every attack he made was blamed on Gironimo, because few Arizonans had ever heard of Chief Jihuahua. Come autumn, it became clear that Kruger would have to re-enter Mexico.The order given to him by Washington was clear: kill all the fugitives, or accept their unconditional surrender. But this time, the Mountain Tribe discovered that the troops of the Mexican Army were waiting for them in the Qiniang Mountain.Ghilonimo was caught between the Mexican Army, which only wanted to kill them, and the American Army, which was willing to take them as prisoners. He and the other leaders decided to listen to Flat Nose and Aches. On March 25, 1886, the chiefs of the Apache rebels met with Kruger at Chimney Church, a few kilometers south of the border.After three days of emotional speeches, the Mountain Tribe agreed to surrender.This time Kruger told them that there must be no strings attached to the surrender.They asked what he meant, and he told them frankly that he might send them to far away places, to the east, to Florida as prisoners.They replied that they would not surrender unless Kruger promised to send them back to the reservation after two years of captivity.Kruger considered the offer, and it seemed like a good deal.Self-confidence itself can convince Washington that this kind of surrender is better than not surrendering, so it agreed. I surrender myself to you, said Gironimo: Do ​​with us as you please, I surrender.以前我一度到處行動像風一樣，現在我向你投誠，完了。 艾契士在會議結束時，籲請克魯格憐憫他那些大山部落中犯了錯的兄弟。他們全都是好朋友，現在我很高興他們已經投降了。因為他們統統是同一族同我全是一家人；那就像你殺一隻鹿，周身的所有部分都是一體般，大山部落也是一樣現在我們要在開敞的大路上旅行，喝美國人的水，而不是藏身在山地裡了；我們要好好生活，沒有危險，沒有不舒服了。我很高興大山部落投了降，我又能同他們說話了我從沒向你們說過謊，你們也沒向我說過謊，現在我告訴你們吧，這些大山部落的人真心真意要做正正當當的事，生活在太太平平裡。如果他們不是，那麼我就是說謊，你們就可以不要再相信我了。好吧，你們先到波伊堡去；我要你們在口袋裡把今天所說過的話統統裝了去。 克魯格確切相信，大山部落會跟他的搜索連到波伊堡去，便急急趕到那裡，把自己給予大山各酋長的條件，用電報拍到華府陸軍部去，回電使他嚇了一跳：所報對反對分子投降，許以在東部囚禁兩年後可返回保留區條件，礙難照准。 灰狼又作了一項自己不能兌現的諾言啦，第二天，又像是當頭一棒，他聽說吉洛尼莫和乃傑在離波伊堡還有幾公里遠處，脫離隊伍逃回墨西哥去了。土孫市幫的一個貿易販，把他們灌足了老酒，撒謊說一旦他們回去，亞利桑那的白人國民鐵會把他們絞死。據貝特辛所寫，乃傑喝得大醉，朝空中開槍。吉洛尼莫以為是同騎兵打起來了，他和乃傑就狼狽落荒逃走，帶走了三十人左右隨行。或許還不止這一些事，吉洛尼莫後來說道：我害怕言而無信，我們一疑心起來，就往回走了。乃傑後來告訴克魯格：我當時怕我押到自己所不喜歡的地方去，到我不認識的所在去。我想到所有被押走的人都死了我在心裡琢磨彼此談到這件事。我們都喝得醉醺醺因為那裡有好多威士忌酒，而我們又要喝，便拿了喝起來。 由於吉洛尼莫的潛逃，陸軍部嚴重申誡克魯格的疏忽職守，還有擅許投降條件，以及他對印第安人的寬容態度。他便立刻辭職，接他職位的是邁爾斯（熊衣），一員急切想陞官的准將。 一八八六年四月十二日，熊衣就職視事，他在陸軍部的全力支援下，迅速調派了五千大軍（大約為陸軍作戰兵力的三分之一）進入戰場。他也有五百名阿帕奇族探馬，和好幾千非正規軍的民團。他編組了一支騎兵的臨時縱隊，還有一支耗費不貲的閃光通信隊，把通信電文在亞利桑那和新墨西哥前後傳遞。這支強大軍力所要剿滅的敵人，便是吉洛尼莫和他手下那支大軍的二十四名戰士，他們在一八八六年整個夏季，也受到墨西哥陸軍幾千名大兵經常不斷的追擊。 到末了，卻是大鼻子上尉（格特吳中尉）和兩名阿帕奇族探馬馬丁和凱伊塔，發現吉洛尼莫和乃傑藏身在親娘山的一處峽谷裡。吉洛尼莫把步槍放下，同大鼻子上尉握手，鎮定沉著地問他的身體好不好，然後又問到美國國內的各項事情。大山部落的日子過得如何？格特吳答道，投降了的大山部落已經被運送到弗羅里達州去了。如果吉洛尼莫向邁爾斯將軍投降，八成兒也會給送到弗羅里達去同他們一起吧。 吉洛尼莫要認識認識熊衣邁爾斯的一切，他的聲音粗糙？還是耳朵聽起來悅耳？他為人殘忍？還是一片仁心？同他說話時，他是望著你眼睛，還是看著地上？他說的話兌不兌現？然後他向格特吳說道：我們要聽你的意見，認為你自己是我們中的一個而不是白人。記住今天所有說過的話，作為一個阿帕奇族人，在這種情況下，你有什麼話向我們勸告的呢？ 我會信任邁爾斯將軍，相信他的話。格特吳答道。 因此，吉洛尼莫作了最後一次的投降。華府的大家長（克里夫蘭總統）相信那些惡劣報社所說有關吉洛尼莫的一切狠毒行動，提議把他處以絞刑。這些人的法律顧問卻知道更好的流行辦法，吉洛尼莫和他手下殘存的戰士們，就給運到了弗羅里達州的馬瑞安堡。他發覺大部份朋友，都在這處又熱又濕的地方奄奄一息，遠不像他們出生的鄉土般又高又乾。有一百多人死了，經診斷是肺病。政府把他們的小孩兒統統帶走，送進賓州喀來耳市的印第安人學校，這些子女們在那裡死了五十多個。 不但反對分子給遷到了弗羅里達州，連很多友好分子也都給遷移到那裡去，其中還包括了為克魯格工作的探馬在內。領著格特吳中尉到吉洛尼莫藏身地的兩名探馬馬丁和凱伊塔，也沒有領到他們出那次任務時，答應要給他們的十匹馬，反而給運到弗羅里達州關將起來。扁鼻曾經力圖勸阻吉洛尼莫離開保留區，後來又協助克魯格找到了他，也突如其來從自己的牧場上給大搬家，送到了弗羅里達州，分配給他的土地、以及他的牲口都沒了，兩個子女也給送到喀來耳市去，雙雙死在那裡。大山部落註定了要絕滅，他們為了保持本身的自由，戰鬥得太猛烈了。 但並不是僅僅只有他們，阿瑞維巴部落的艾斯基明辛，在希那河牧場經濟上已能獨立，也因為被人控告，說他同一個叫阿帕奇小伙子的非法強徒通訊而被逮捕。他和還殘存的四十個阿瑞維巴部落族人，也給送到弗羅里達州，同大山部落住在一起。後來，所有這些流放的族人，都調到了阿拉巴馬州的維農山兵營。 如果不是少數白人朋友們的力量，像克魯格、克隆和史考特，這些阿帕奇族人在木比耳河上疾疫頻仍的營地裡，早就入土了。他們超越了熊衣邁爾斯和陸軍部的反對，成功地把艾斯基明辛和阿瑞維巴部落送回了聖卡洛斯。然而，亞利桑那州的國民卻不准吉洛尼莫的大山部落留在州境。基厄威族和堪馬奇族從史考特中尉那裡，聽到了大山部落的悲慘情況，便把本身保留區的一部分，讓給這些世仇阿帕奇族人。一八九四年，吉洛尼莫率領了僅存的流放族人到了西爾堡。一九〇九年他在那裡逝世時，依然是一名戰俘，屍體安葬在阿帕奇族墓地裡。傳說依然說，不久以後，他的遺骨就給秘密搬走，帶到了西南部的一處地方或許是摩古雲山吧，或者就是大山，要不就是深入墨西哥境內的親娘山，他是阿帕奇族的最後一位酋長嘛。