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History Museum Attractions In Fort Apache

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The Fort Apache Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in Arizona, United States, encompassing parts of Navajo, Gila, and Apache counties. It is home to the federally recognized White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, a Western Apache tribe. It has a land area of 2,627 square miles and a population of 12,429 people as of the 2000 census. The largest community is in Whiteriver.
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  • 1. Fort Apache Historical Park Fort Apache
    Fort Apache is a 1948 American western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Henry Fonda. The film was the first of the director's cavalry trilogy and was followed by She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande , both also starring Wayne. The screenplay was inspired by James Warner Bellah's short story Massacre . The historical sources for Massacre have been attributed both to George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn and to the Fetterman Fight.The film was one of the first to present an authentic and sympathetic view of the Native Americans. In his review of the DVD release of Fort Apache in 2012, New York Times movie critic Dave Kehr called it one of the great achievements of classical American cinema, a film of immense complexity that never fails to reveal ne...
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  • 2. Kinishba Ruins and Fort Apache Museum Fort Apache
    Kinishba Ruins is a 600-room Mogollon great house archaeological site in eastern Arizona and is administered by the White Mountain Apache Tribe. It is located on the present-day Fort Apache Indian Reservation, in the Apache community of Canyon Day. As it demonstrates a combination of both Mogollon and Ancestral Puebloan cultural traits, archaeologists consider it part of the historical lineage of both the Hopi and Zuni cultures. It is designated as a National Historic Landmark. Kinishba is 5,000 feet above a pine-fringed alluvial valley, west of Fort Apache, in the White Mountain Apache Tribal community of Canyon Day. Long known to the Apache people of the region and alleged to have been visited by Conquistadors, the site was first written about in English in 1892, when pioneering archaeol...
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