Juh (chief)

Juh (also Hu , Ho , Whoa or Jui - read: Hoo, the Apache also called him Tan-Dɨn-Bɨl-No-Jui - "He Brings Many Things With Him" ​​or Ya-Natch-Cln - "See Far"; * around 1825 ; † November 1883 in Chihuahua ) was a chief of the Nednhi Chiricahua Apaches .

Relations with the Mexicans

Juh was chief of the Janeros local group of the Nednhi ("hostile people"), who are often referred to as southern Chiricahua . Besides Natiza , a chief of another local group of the Nednhi, Juh was the most important leader of the Nednhi. These lived, divided into three local groups (the Janeros, Carrizaleños, Pinery Apaches or Pinaleños), most of the time in the Sierra Madre in northern Sonora and Chihuahua and only came sporadically north to the other Chiricahua. Juh was closely related to the medicine man (Diyin) and leader of the Bedonkohe (a group of the eastern Chiricahua ), Geronimo , whose sister he had married Ishton. Since Juh stuttered and therefore could not speak freely, Geronimo often did this for him. Despite Juh's handicap, Geronimo had great respect and respect for Juh and was happy to submit to him.

Juh mostly had martial relations with the Mexicans, which is not surprising, since the various Nednhi groups were the Apaches furthest south and thus offered an easy target for revenge-loving Mexicans. On the other hand, his group had made peace with the city of Janos in Chihuahua and was able to get rid of their stolen goods from Sonora , Sinaloa and Durango there at a good price. They could also buy weapons, ammunition, and essential goods.

Relations with the Americans

Juh was completely unknown to the Americans until the mid-1870s, although he was one of the last Apache chiefs to undertake large-scale and strategic raids and wars. After Victorio's death in 1880, the chief of the Chihenne (an eastern Chiricahua group), the individual leaders only undertook hit-and-run undertakings against Mexicans and Americans, mostly against the civilian population by opening small towns and cities Villages, ranches and haciendas looted.

Juh, on the other hand, continued to fight the Mexican army relentlessly from the protection of his mountain fortresses . In all of these battles he was often supported by the Bedonkohe of Geronimo and the Chokonen ( central Chiricahua ) of Naiche . But since almost every Apache attack by Mexicans and Americans was immediately attributed to Geronimo , Juh has remained almost completely unknown until our time. When Juh's horse shied away from a successful raid attempting to cross a river in 1883, he fell into the river and drowned.

After Juh's death, the Apaches were never able to carry out large and wide-ranging endeavors, and were thereby greatly weakened. Chihuahua , Ulzana , Naiche , Mangas, Fun and last but not least Geronimo were never able to connect the Apaches to such a powerful force and unity.

Aftermath

Juh's son, Asa Daklugie, Geronimo's nephew, accompanied his uncle on the last military campaigns and then into captivity in Florida. The remaining Nednhi and the other Chiricahua were convinced that he was just like Geronimo a holy man (Diyin) with unusual powers. Until the 1950s, Daklugie remained a respected man among the Apaches in the Mescalero reservation and passed the memory on to his father.

literature

• Werner Egli: Yeah, the forgotten Apache. In: Magazine for American Studies. Volume 6, 2, 1982
• Grenville Goodwin: Western Apache Raiding & Warfare. Ed .: Keith H. Basso, University of Arizona Press, 1971, ISBN 978-0-8165-0297-4
• Edwin R. Sweeney: FROM COCHISE TO GERONIMO , The Chiricahua Apaches 1874-1886, University of Oklahoma Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8061-4272-2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Apache Warriors. In: Geocities.Com. Archived from the original on November 7, 2004 ; accessed on January 10, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Chiefs of the Apache
3. ↑ Dan L. Thrapp: Juh: an Incredible Indian . Ed .: Southwestern studies. Texas Western Press, 1973 ( Google Books ).