APACHE RATTLESNAKE POWER

For centuries the Apache people have treasured the bounties of their mountain and desert homelands. They fought long and hard to retain them. After all, Ussen (the creator) had set aside this land for Indeh (“the people”). Even the rattlesnake was considered a part of that bounty. Their enemies sometimes referred to the Apaches themselves as rattlesnakes. Consider, for example, this 1841 excerpt from a newspaper in the Mexican state of Chihuahua:

[These] venomous serpents…slipped about like rattlesnakes, crept around boulders and hid behind trees along mountain trails. When a Mexican passed, a poisoned arrow laid him low.

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