While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Gila Apache. The name, Gila, or Xila,
was apparently originally that of an Apache settlement west of Socorro, in
southwest New Mexico, and as early as 1630 was applied to those Apache
residing for part of the time on the extreme headwaters of the Rio Gila in
that territory, evidently bracing those later known as Mimbreños,
Mogollones, and Warm Springs (Chiricahua) Apache, and later
extended to include the Apache living along the Gila in Arizona. The
latter were seemingly the Arivaipa and Chiricahua, or a part of them.
There were about 4,000 Indians under this name in 1853, when some of their
bands were gathered at Ft Webster, New Mexico, and induced by promise of
supplies for a number of years to settle down and begin farming.
They kept the peace and made some progress in industry,
but were driven back to a life of pillage when the supplies were stopped,
the treaty not having been confirmed. They are no longer recognized under
this name. The term Gileños has also
been employed to designate the Pima residing on the Gila in Arizona.
