Delshay
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Crime
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Murder, Homicide, Execution, Assassination
- Curriculum: American History 1816-1855, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American Indian History
Article abstract: Delshay was murdered by a bounty hunter, and his head was publicly displayed as a warning to other Apaches who raided white settlements.
Following their uprisings between 1861 and 1863, Apache bands continued raiding neighboring whites. In 1868, Chief Delshay agreed to peace and resettled his band at Camp McDowell on Arizona's Verde River. In 1871, after the Camp Grant Massacre, in which members of Eskiminzin's peaceful band of Aravaipa Apache were attacked after having been granted sanctuary, Delshay requested permission to move his band from...
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