Dutchy (Apache scout)

Dutchy (c. 1855 – 12 March 1893), born Bakeitzogie, meaning Yellow Coyote,[1] was a Chiricahua and Apache scout who served with Lieutenant Britton Davis during the Apache wars.[2]

In the early 1870s, Dutchy's father killed a white man and fled to the hills. According to Britton Davis, Dutchy was then persuaded to kill his father by a religious man who urged Dutchy to save his and his father's souls. Davis describes how rumors described Dutchy returning the next day with his father's head.[3] As a member of the Chatto raiding party, Dutchy raided southern Arizona, surrendering to Davis at San Carlos.

After being held at Fort Thomas, Dutchy ended up being a trustworthy scout, and he ended up being selected as Emmet Crawford's body-servant.[4] He enlisted on 13 March 1884.[5] He served as a scout with Crawford and was promoted to sergeant of scouts. Dutchy continued as a scout until late in 1886 until he was indicted by a United States grand jury in November 1884 for the murder of Jacob Samuel Ferrin near San Carlos in July 1883. He was beaten to death on 12 March 1893 during a drunken brawl with white soldiers.[6]

References
  1. Delgadillo 2014, pp. 73–74.
  2. Langellier 2011, p. 107.
  3. Thrapp, Dan L. (1991-06-01). Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: A-F. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0803294182.
  4. "Among Our Contemporaries". United Service; A Quarterly Review of Military and Naval Affairs. 1: 60. 1983 – via ProQuest.
  5. Delgadillo 2014, p. 73.
  6. Delgadillo 2014, p. 74.

Bibliography
  • Delgadillo, Alicia (2014). From Fort Marion to Fort Sill: A Documentary History of the Chiricahua Apache Prisoners of War, 1886-1913. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0803243798.
  • Langellier, John P. (2011). Southern Arizona Military Outposts. Langellier. ISBN 978-0738579924.


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