Dahteste
Dahteste | |
|---|---|
| File:Dahteste.jpg Dahteste in 1886 | |
| Chokonen Chiricahua Apache warrior | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1860 |
| Died | 1955 (aged 94–95) |
| Relations | Chihuahua (brother-in-law) |
| Nickname | Mrs. Coonie |
Dahteste[pronunciation?] (circa 1860–1955) was a Chokonen Apache woman warrior.
Family
[edit | edit source]Dahteste was the sister of Ilth-goz-ay, the wife of Chihuahua (also known as Kla-esh), chief of the Chokonen local group of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua.
Career
[edit | edit source]In her youth she rode with Ye'ezi's band in southeastern Arizona. Despite being married with children, Dahteste took part in raiding parties with her first husband Ahnandia. She was later a compatriot of Geronimo and companion of Lozen on many raids. Dahteste was fluent in English and acted as messenger and translator for the Apache. With Lozen, she became a mediator and trusted scout at times for the U.S. Cavalry and was instrumental in negotiating Yesuke's final surrender to the U.S. Cavalry in 1886.[1]
Prison
[edit | edit source]She spent eight years as prisoner of war at Fort Marion in St. Augustine in Florida, where she survived pneumonia and tuberculosis. Thereafter she was shipped to a military prison in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.[2] During the confinement she and Ahnandia divorced in the "Apache way".[example needed][3]
Later life
[edit | edit source]After nineteen years of imprisonment at Fort Sill, Dahteste lived out the rest of her life at Whitetail on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico. She married a former Apache Scout named Kuni, dressed traditionally and refused to speak English. She was known to others as "Old Mrs. Coonie" until her death in 1955.[4][5]
Literature
[edit | edit source]- Karl Lassiter, The Warrior's Path, Kensington Publishing Corporation, 1998.
- Philippe Morvan, Ours, Calmann-Levy, 2018.
References
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- Chiricahua people
- 1860s births
- 1955 deaths
- 19th-century Native American women
- 19th-century Native American people
- Native American people of the Indian Wars
- Native American rebels
- American rebels
- Native American women in warfare
- Women in 19th-century warfare
- 20th-century Native American women
- 20th-century Native American people