Apache Were Oppressed As a Essay

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In 1883, an intensive training program began of Apache in order to train them in the civilized Western way of life with focus on agriculture so that the Apache could become n productive people and settle down to agricultural living. The proceeds of their agricultural labor went to the American nation.

Geronimo and his band finally surrendered Sept. 4, 1886, and with numerous friendly Apache were sent to Florida as prisoners. The civilization program was finally successful and, in due time, Apache hostility in Arizona and New Mexico ceased.

Civilization changed the nomadic culture of the Apache so that they largely became an agricultural people. Subsisting laregly on vegetable, they refused to eat fish and bear and saw them as taboos.

Their women excelled in basket making, and erected their shelters which were largely made of brush taken from place to place and suited for their arid enviousness.

The Apache -- divided into a large number of groups that consist of at least 15 tribes - are articulated, sharp people (not naive or gullible), and honest in protecting property that is assigned to them.(Apache Indian History.
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Apache is governed by the San Carlos Apache Tribal Council, that is a popularly elected representative body operating under a written constitution and charter. The Council appoints all judges and law enforcement officers.

Today most of the Apache dress in Western clothing and evidence Western styled behavior including speaking English and attending Western schools. One of the rare differences is their housing which is a round structure built with branches and bear grass called a wickiup. Babies are lovingly taken care of; the women still like to occupy themselves with basketmaking and beading; and the Apache people are known as an athletic people who like to play footraces where both genders compete. There seems to be far less gender discrimination, in fact, with the Apache than there with their Western host country. (Apache culture ).....

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