Who are the Apache Indian?

The Apache are a tribe of Indians of North America, most living in the southern states of New Mexico and Arizona in the United States and the states of Chihuahua and Coahuila in Mexico. One day the Apaches, the most ferocious and savage warriors were among the Indians of the Southwest. They were wonderful horsemen and wandered from place to place, plundering their peaceful neighbors and rob them of their food, horses and sheep. They fought not only robbed and theirIndian neighbors, but they also fought against all whites. Whites were before the Apaches, the Spanish explorers arrived, what now conquered Mexico. E 'was built by the Spaniards, who learned of the Apaches horses.

They won the Spaniards' horses and learned to ride and fight on horseback. Later, when Mexico was an independent country, they attacked the Mexicans. When the area that now the states of New Mexico and Arizona was a part of the United StatesStates, was the cavalry of the U.S. for years before the Apaches, who had been delivered by the leaders brought Geronimo, Cochise and Victorio in 1886 to fight. Geronimo was the most famous Apache chief. It 'was one of the most intelligent of all the Indian fighters.

Geronimo's family was banned and as a prisoner of St. Augustine, Florida, and surrendered only when a messenger to General Nelson A. Miles told him he would be allowed to live withhis wife and children. But climate change was not suitable for the Indians were sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in the West. Here Geronimo died in 1909. Although the Apaches were a tribe, were divided into different groups. Today some of these bands live in peace on reservations in New Mexico and Arizona. There are more than 8,000 Apaches reservations about 2,500 living in Arizona and New Mexico. The name "Apache" is used in France for dangerousThe criminals of Paris, the capital and largest city in France. E 'in the way they speak French, and means more or less like our word "thug" or "gangster".