Ohatchecama (Yavapai: "Striking Enemy";[2] also known as Ocho-cama and Ah-oochy Kah-mah, among other variations) was a Tolkepaya Yavapai leader who was arrested for taking part in the Wickenburg Massacre.[3] Fighting broke out between soldiers as they attempted to arrest the Yavapai leader, and Ohatchecama's brother was killed.[4] The next day, Ohatchecama was seriously wounded while trying to escape and was reported dead, but survived his injuries and later turned up at Fort Date Creek.[5]
N0tes edit
- ^ Gentile 1870.
- ^ Braatz 2003, p. 155.
- ^ Books of the Southwest: The Wickenburg Massacre
- ^ Farish 1918.
- ^ Braatz 2003, pp. 135–36.
References edit
- Braatz, Timothy (2003), Surviving Conquest, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 978-0-8032-2242-7
- Farish, T. E. (1918), "XVI", History of Arizona (Vol. VIII), Filmer Brothers Electrotype Company
- Gentile, Carlo (1870), "Ah-oochy Kah-mah & his friend Irateba Two Tonto Apache girls, civilized & christians, good girls ; Coyotero Apache woman, sold by her lord & master for 40 yards Manta at Camp Grant ; Joséa, Pimo [i.e., Pima] Fat Boy, front view.", Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved 19 May 2015
- Books of the Southwest: The Wickenburg Massacre