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Pinal Coyotero
Apache Indian History
Pinal Coyotero. A part of the
Coyotero Apache, whose chief rendezvous was the Pinal mountains and their
vicinity, north of Gila River in Arizona.
They ranged, however, about the sources of the Gila,
over the Mogollon mesa, and from northern Arizona to the Gila and even
southward. They are now under the San Carlos and Ft Apache agencies, where
they are officially classed as Coyoteros. According to Bourke, there were
surviving among them in 1882 the following clans (or bands):
Chisnedinadinaye
Destchetinaye
Gadinchin
Kaihatin
Klokadakaydn
Nagokaydn
Nagosugn
Tegotsugn
Titsessinaye
Tutsoshin
Tutzose
Tziltadin
Yagoyecayn
They are reputed by tradition to have been the first of
the Apache to have penetrated below the Little Colorado among the Pueblo
peoples, with whom they intermarried (Bourke in Jour. Am. Folklore, III,
112, 1890). They possessed the country from San Francisco mountains to the
Gila until they were subdued by Gen. Crook in 1873. Since then they have
peaceably tilled their land at San Carlos.
White (Hist. Apaches, MS., B. A. E.,1875), for several
years a surgeon at Ft Apache, says that they have soft, musical voices,
uttering each word in a sweet, pleasant tone. He noted also their
light-hearted, childish ways and timid manner, their pleasant expression
of countenance, and the beauty of their women. Married women tattooed
their chins in three blue vertical lines running from the lower lip.
Pinaleños
(Spanish: 'pinery people'). A division of the Apache, evidently more
closely related to the Chiricahua than to any other group. Their principal
seat was formerly the Pinaleño
mountains, south of Gila River, southeastern Arizona, but their raids
extended far into Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico.
They were noted for their warlike character and
continued their hostility toward the United States (not withstanding
1,051, including Arivaipa, were on the San Carlos reserve in 1876), until
forced by Gen. George Crook to surrender in 1883.
They are now under the San Carlos and Ft Apache
agencies, Ariz., being officially known as Pinals, but their numbers are
not separately reported. The Pinalenos and the Anal Covoteros have often
been confused. See Apache.
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Handbook
of American Indians, 1906
Index of Tribes or Nations
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