The Chiricahua Apache

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Upcoming Events in Grant County

Hachita Focus Group
February 6, 1:00 pm
The Health Council conducts the Community Assessment to learn the health wellness needs of Grant County residents. These needs are prioritized and help leverage tens of millions of dollars for our community. Focus groups are one hour in length and limited to 15 people. All participants will be compensated for their time. All issues raised in the focus groups will be confidential, and participants' identities will be kept secret. Location: Hachita Community Center, corner of Railroad Ave and 4th St. Phone: (575) 388-1198 ext.

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Economic Development Sub-Committee of the Food Policy Council
February 7, 3:00 pm Location: Grant County Business & Conference Center, 3031 Hwy 180 East Phone: 388-1198 ext12

Hurley Focus Group - Community Assessment 2012
February 7, 6:00 pm
The Grant County Community Health Council conducts the Community Assessment to learn the health and wellness needs of Grant County residents. These needs are prioritized and help to leverage tens of millions of dollars for our community. The community assessment begins with focus groups throughout the county which are one hour in length and limited to 15 people. All participants will be compensated for their time. All issues raised in the focus groups will be confidential, and participants' identities will be kept secret. To reserve your seat at a focus group or for more information call the Health Council at (575) 388-1198, email: tknauf@grmc.org Location: Hurley Community Center, 302 Carrasco Ave. Phone: 388-1198 ext. 22

Senior Life Cycle
February 8, 3:30 pm
Grassroots advocacy for local senior concerns and issues. Everyone is welcome! Location: Grant County Business & Conference Center’s Silver Room, 3031 Hwy 180 East Phone: 388-1198 ext. 10

Ostomias Unidos – Colostomy Support Group
February 9, 5:00 pm
This month's topic is "Self-Advocacy Hopeless to Hopeful, Helpless to Self-Management" Location: Melinda’s Medical Supply, 910 E. 32nd St. Phone: 534-9254

The Chiricahua Apache

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The Chiricahua Apache (NDE) are the Indigenous People of the Southwest, now known as New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Sonora, and Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. Over time, the Apache occupied and existed within their territories known to all as the "Apacheria" with each local group adapting to their own distinct environment, climate and or terrains by available food sources. Through creation stories and an oral history passed down for hundreds of generations the Apache have maintained their heritage and culture to this day.

The Chiricahua people are probably the widest known group of Apache based on the prolific and often time romanticized portrayals of two great leaders, Geronimo and Cochise. In truth leaders and all Apache displayed character traits like no others. After their surrender in 1886, the Chiricahua people were displaced and scattered, some were shuffled from prison sites in Florida, Alabama and Oklahoma as the longest held prisoners of war in history, 27 years. This experience has become an element of our identity one of adaptation to any environment which we continue to honor with organizations such as the Chiricahua Apache prisoner of War Decedents.

Photo of Chiricahua Apaches being held prisoner at Fort Bowie, Arizona, on land originally controlled by the Chiricahua. Photo and Chiricahua map courtesy Chiricahua Apache Nde Nation.

Silver City (Grant County) is the original homeland to the Chiricahua Apache who have come together as a group to provide stability to the population of Native Americans in this area. The Red Paint Intertribal Council promotes the Red Paint Powwow held every January; our event has become a major tourist attraction along with much needed "Representation of Cultures" to this area.

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