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Cochise was one of the most famous leaders of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache people.
He is famous for leading an uprising against the United States during the Apache Wars.
Cochise is one of the most famous Apache leaders to resist European American colonisation.
He was known for being tall (over 6 foot) and strong.
His name “cheis” means “having the strength of an oak.” Cochise was born in Arizona/New Mexico.
The Apache people had settled in this region before the arrival of Spanish and Europeans.
There were many, many, wars between the Spanish colonists and the later Mexicans because they wanted more and more control over Chiricahua lands.
The more they wanted this, the more Cochise and his people resisted.
The Apache won many of these wars.
The Spanish tried a new way to win called the “Galvez Peace Policy”. They tried to make the Apache rely on them and only gave them older firearms and liquor ratio