He’s worse then that.
He’s a Mexican Supremacist masquerading as an Apache.
So one line of his ancestry is Injun. Big deal. The other lines are all Spaniard, and he’s bitter that the truth about them hasn’t been suppressed enough.
The Apaches were on this side of the border because of their hatred for Mexico. It wasnt blond, blue eyed Army officers who tied Mexican officers to the wheels of a buckboard and sent it off a cliff. Those were his alleged ancestors.
Lotta people in White River in total disagreement with this clown.
He’s a revisionist. A story teller. He is looking for fame and fortune, recognition and a payday. I may have as much Apache blood in my veins as he does, which according to 23 and me is 19% (Far more than the 1/2000th that Liz has) and have 25% Mexican. My ancestry traces back to the Mescalero Tribe. I really don’t care what happened 150 years ago. Today I am retired from a large corporation, and am still called back for consulting and rewarded well. I served in the US Army, and have an honorable discharge. I own 3 homes in California that are paid for. You determine your own future.
I don’t know the true stories of what happened in New Mexico and Arizona back then. But today anyone living here in the US can become successful and overcome. Or they can choose to play the victim role their entire lives and never achieve anything.
The Apache were from the Texas panhandle area. In the 1700s, the Comanches drove the Apache out, forcing them south and west. The Comanche were simply more bad-ass than the Apache, and that takes some doing!
“Newly rich in horses and knowledge of the Spanish borderlands, in 1720 the Comanches headed east onto the Great Plains of the Southwest, where immense horse herds could be sustained on the seemingly infinite grasslands...
In their effort to monopolize the horse and bison trade and eliminate trade competition – especially for the food sources they relied on – the Comanches went to war against their main competitor on the southern plains: the Apache.
The Apache had thrived on the plains as farmers, but once they were at war those farms became a military liability. Whereas the nomadic Comanche had no farms or villages to attack, the Apache had to defend the places where they were rooted and which they counted on for food and shelter. By sweeping into Apache villages in the dark of night, destroying their food storages, killing their livestock, burning their homes, and quickly disappearing into the night, the Comanche wore down their competitors on the plains.
They combined this type of swift, guerilla style attack with massive frontal assaults that focused on killing as many Apache men and enslaving as many women and children as possible. Following a practice that was widespread amongst indigenous peoples in the region, some of these slaves were sold on the thriving New Mexican slave markets, while others were adopted or married into families and eventually became Comanches themselves.
By 1740, the Apache had been forced out of the plains regions of modern day New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma. Some fled further south onto the plains of Spanish Texas, while others moved to the Rio Grande area and the contemporary U.S.-Mexico border region.”
https://crossculturalsolidarity.com/the-comanche-empire-and-the-destruction-of-northern-mexico/