RETALIATION CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE APACHE
Settlers and Navajos fighting the Apache

Retaliation campaign against the Apache

The suffering, exasperated people have commenced the work of retaliation on the Indians. Their patience has been remarkable, but the killing of good citizens on the San Pedro, byt Indians fed and otherwise provided for at Camp Grant, exhausted it. There is no Indian reservation at Camp Grant, but a few hundred Apaches recently came there and promised peace and were fed and clothed, and from thence went out to steal and murder. Having traced the guilty ones to this base, two weeks ago the citizens determined to make their power felt. On the 28th of April a few of them, aided by two Hundred Navajo Indians, started on a mission of revenge and self-protection. Early on the 30th they dashed into the Indians, killing eighty-five and took twenty eight children prisoners. One horse recently stolen was recaptured, and unbroken packages containing prime rifle cartridges, and a breset pin worth two hundred dollars, belonging to a woman recently killed at Tubac, were found on these Indians, making it a matter of certainty that these Indians killed L. B. Wooster and the woman on his farm. It is certain that the citizens of Arizona will no longer witness the murder of their fellows and destroying their property and endure it. Tucson (Arizona) Citizen, May 3, 1871 The Navajo code talkers The Long Walk of the Navajo Word of Honor of the Navajo Navajo Indians at the marketplace in New Mexico Kit Carson's Expedition against the Navajo Navajo Outrages in New Mexico and Utah Navajo War against White Settlers Proof that Navajos Came from Alaska Navajos in Arms Navajos Outlawed Navajos in their new reservation Navajo Indians starving because of drought Retaliation campaign against the Apache Rights of the Navajo Woman The White Chief of the Navajoes