Fort Sill Apache to finally get a reservation in New Mexico
Fort Sill Apache have won the right to establish a thirty acre reservation on their homelands in southern New Mexico. Members of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe are descended from the Chiricahua and Warm Springs Apaches, who originally lived in parts of New Mexico, Arizona and northern Mexico.
After surrender of the famous Apache leader, Geronimo, in the 1880s, they were first sent to prison camps in Florida, and later to Oklahoma.
“This is what I see as the start of a long journey home,” said Jeff Houser, chairman of the tribe whose headquarters are currently based in southwest Oklahoma. The Fort Sill have a 10-acre headquarters in Oklahoma and 120 acres of farmland, Houser said, but no reservation.
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