#battleofapachepass

Chiricahua Apache

#trueamericans

Circa 1880

Haskay-bay-nay-ntayl, more commonly known as Apache Kid, was a White Mountain Apache who was captured by the Yuma people as a child, who was later freed by the U.S. Army where he became a street orphan within the Army camps. In the mid-1870s when he was a teenager, Haskay-bay-nay-ntayl met Al Sieber and was essentially adopted by him, the Chief of the Army Scouts. A few years later, in 1881, Haskay-bay-nay-ntayl enlisted with the U.S. Cavalry as an Indian scout, in a program designed by General George Crook to help quell raids by hostile bands of Apache. By July 1882, owing to his remarkable abilities in the job, he was promoted to sergeant. Shortly thereafter he accompanied Crook on an expedition into the Sierra Madre Occidental. He worked on assignment both in Arizona and northern Mexico over the next couple of years, but in 1885 he was involved in a riot while intoxicated, and to prevent him being hanged by Mexican authorities, Sieber sent him back north.

Nosey; San Carlos Apache scout

Circa 1885

Circa 1886

Circa 1903