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Exodus Day Commemorates Removal, Restoration of Two People | Indian Country Today Media Network.com

20.2.11

Exodus Day Commemorates Removal, Restoration of Two People | Indian Country Today Media Network.com: "However, the bloody reputation attributed to the Apache by a lurid 19th-century press and a few tragic incidents clung to the bands, and when white settlers happened upon the green ribbon meandering its way through the arid valley, they also found the Yavapai and Apache. In one story told by Yavapai elders at nearby Fort McDowell, when settlers asked the identity of the people living in one village, they answered “Aba’ja,” or “the people.” Unfortunately, that Yavapai word was misheard by the settlers to mean “Apache,” and the settlers, frightened by tales that they would be murdered in their beds, set about ridding the valley of Indians."


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