Poor little Wet Nose was scooped up and taken in by the same soldiers who had directed the massacre of his entire extended family. It happened at Skeleton Cave, near the Salt River, in 1872—just ...

Captured by Pima warriors -- Purchased by Gentile, Buffalo Bill, Ghost Dancers, and Wounded Knee Creek -- Richard Henry Pratt, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, assimilation and allotment -- ...

Dead nearly 80 years, Mike Burns got a new lease on life this year when Gregory McNamee had Burns' autobiography published. Burns was a Yavapai Indian originally named Hoomothya (Wet Nose) whose ...

Contents: Apache-Mohave (Yavapai) vocabulary from Akuake or William Aguacca Roberts, obtained August 28, 1883, at Hampton, Virginia, pages 3-18; Yavapai vocabulary copied from [William H.] Corbusier, ...