A Clash of Cultures by Robert M. Utley

Author:Robert M. Utley [Utley, Robert M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781410220776
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Publisher: Press Holdings International, Inc.
Published: 2005-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Howard Meets Cochise

Years after General Howard’s meeting with Cochise, Howard wrote a children’s book about the incident. This passage from Famous Indian Chiefs I Have Known describes the initial confrontation:

We had just had our breakfast when the chief [Cochise] rode in. He wore a single robe of stout cotton cloth and a Mexican sombrero on his head with eagle feathers on it. With him were his sister and his wife, Natchee, his son, about fourteen years old, and Juan, his brother, besides other Indians. When he saw us he sprang from his horse and threw his arms about Jeffords and embraced him twice, first on one side, then on the other. When Jeffords told him who I was, he turned to me in a gentlemanly way, holding out his hand and saying: “Buenos dias, señor.” He greeted us all pleasantly and asked us to go to the council ground where the chief Indians had already gathered....

Ponce and Chie first told Cochise all about me, who I was, and what I had done for other Indians. He seemed very pleased with the story, and you may be sure we watched very carefully to see how he took it. I answered him plainly that the President had sent me to make peace with him. He replied: “Nobody wants peace more than I do. I have killed ten white men for every Indian I have lost, but still the white men are no less, and my tribe keeps growing smaller and smaller, till it will disappear from the face of the earth if we do not have a good peace soon.”

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