Jason Betzinez, Ft Sill, Oklahoma
N 34° 41.810 W 098° 22.227
14S E 557658 N 3839604
Located in the Apache Indian Cemetery in the back training area of Ft Sill.
Waymark Code: WM3K2J
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 04/14/2008
Views: 19
This grave is located near the grave of Geronimo.
Jason Betinez is the writer of the autobiography "I Fought with Geronimo" which is still available today.
Below info taken from www2.tcu.edu/depts/prs/amwest/html/wl1038.html:
Betzinez's book is a fascinating blend of oral history and autobiography. The manuscript, which he wrote but which historian Wilbur S. Nye edited, appeared when the author (b. 1860) was ninety-nine. Betzinez was a Warm Springs Apache, close kin to the Chiricahuas; Geronimo (Gayahkla) was his cousin. His book is a valuable document of Apache oral history–especially for its account of the wanderings of the two bands between 1876 and Geronimo's surrender in 1886. So feared were the captured Apaches that they were held as prisoners of war from 1886 to 1913 at various forts in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. Between 1887 and 1897, Betzinez attended Carlisle Indian School, where he became a dedicated convert to the white man's way. After he moved to Oklahoma to be reunited with his people, Betzinez watched sadly as Carlisle friends returned to the old ways, unable to withstand being branded as outcasts who no longer loved their people. When the Apaches were permitted to move in 1913 to the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico, Betzinez chose instead to accept an allotment of land in Oklahoma. At age fifty-nine, he married a former missionary who was white, and lived out his days devoted to Christianity and hard work.
Description:
See above
Date of birth: 06/04/1860
Date of death: 11/01/1960
Area of notoriety: Literature
Marker Type: Headstone
Setting: Outdoor
Fee required?: No
Web site: [Web Link]
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Not listed
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