50 THE PIMA INDIANS [eth. ann. 26 



the body to the buttes at the point where the Maricopa and Phoenix 

 railroad now crosses the Gila and left it tied to a post. The Apache 

 who ran away led a party of his people to recover the body, but it 

 was afterwards ascertained from the tracks that they turned back 

 just before reaching the spot. 



A Pima was killed by the Apaches while the California Column was 

 at the villages and a squad of sokliers accompanied the pursuing party 

 of Piinas as far as the Estrellas, but the enemy escaped. The raid was 

 in the saguaro fruit season "as shown by the red on the dead Pima" 

 [or the month of June, 1862]. 



6 J^>'^%^ Blackwater. Two medicine-men, father and son, were 

 " " " A Ai killed during the year because of their supposed machin- 

 ations against the people. 



1883-84 



j), j) Gila Crossing, Salt River. For a short time there was peace 

 between the Pimas and Apaches. During this period the Mari- 

 copas killed two old men and captured a boy from a pariy of Apaches 

 who came to the Maricopa village. The boy was sold to a half- 

 brother of the trailer A. M. White [named Cyrus Lennan], known to 

 the Pimas as Satciny Va, Chin Beard. 



This man took the boy with him on an expedition against the 

 Apaches. There was a Mexican in the party who understood the 

 Apache language, so that communication was openetl with the enemy 

 as soon as they were discovered. The whites placed flour, sugar, and 

 other rations on blankets, and the Apaches, believing that the food 

 was intended as a peace offering, came up to them. The soldiers 

 were accompanied by three Pimas, but the}" had concealed them 

 imder blankets. They had stacked their guns, but retained their 

 side arms concealed. At a signal from the leader of the party the 

 Apaches were fired upon and nearly all of them were killed. Lennan 

 was killed while following the escaping Apaches, but the Pimas killed 

 the man who had tlu-ust a lance into his breast." The place has since 

 been known as Yatiikit ku Kakfita, Place where the snare was set.'' 



oOwl Ear states that Lennan shot the man who struck him and they fell dead together. 



6 As we have independent white testimony, it is inten'sting to compare it with the Piman account. 

 In his Adventures in the Apache Country J. Ross Browne describes the engagement in which Cyrus 

 Lennan was killed. It was at the "Bloody Tanks" and is known in history as King Woolsey's 

 (infamous) "pinole treaty." A party of 20 whites had been pursuing a band of Apaches with stolen 

 stock for several days until they ran out of provisions and sent to the Pima viUages for supplies. They 

 were joined by 14 Maricopas under the leadership of Juan Chivaria and Cyrus Lennan. The entire 

 party under the command of King Woolsey camped on the Salt river in a smaU valley which could 

 not have Ijeen far from the upper end of the Salt River canyon. .A.S soon as the smoke of their camp 

 fire arose they were approached by Apaches to whom "Woolsey sent Tonto Jack, an interpreter, to 

 learn what they had to say. and at the same time to tell them it was not the wish of his party to fight 

 them; that he wanted them to come down and he would give them some pinole." The .\paches were 

 finally prevailed upon to enter the camp to the number of 30 or 35. After the display of some insolence 

 on the part of the Apache chief Woolsey drew his pistol and shot him dead. "This was the signal 

 for the signing of the treaty. Simultaneously the whole party commenced firing upon the Indians, 

 slaughtering them right and left. Leiman stood in advance of the Maricopas and was warned by 



