IN APACHE LAND 55 



may be certain they were never made for 

 Apache wear, but for sale to tourists. Attached 

 to Fort Apache is a detachment of enlisted 

 Apache scouts, and these men, trim and neat in 

 the khaki uniform of the army, were fine look- 

 ing, sinewy, alert, active men. 



Native Indian policemen, acting under the In- 

 dian agent, armed with rifle and revolver, patrol 

 the reservation. They are the peace officers of 

 the country and are chosen from the best and 

 most reliable of the young men. Some of them 

 have been educated in Indian schools. One of 

 their duties is to ferret out, and destroy when 

 found, stores of the native tulapai, an intoxicant 

 made by the Apaches from fermented corn. 

 Tulapai leads to many internal fights among the 

 Indians, and not a few murders during the past 

 year or two have been directly traced to its 

 effect. In consequence of this tendency to in- 

 jure one another the agent has ordered all In- 

 dians to turn in their firearms to the agency dur- 

 ing seasons when hunting is prohibited. Medi- 

 cine dances are also prohibited, for at these 

 dances the Indians, with the aid of tulapai, work 

 themselves into a high state of frenzy, which is 

 very likely to end in bloodshed. 



In spite of rules and prohibition, however, 

 much tulapai is made and consumed, many In- 



