Eskiminzin ( '' Ndee biyati ' / Nnee biyati ' '' : " Men Stand in Line for Him " ; or '' Hashkebansiziin '' , '' Hàckíbáínzín '' - " Angry , Men Stand in Line for Him " , 1828-1894 ) was a local group chief of the Aravaipa band of the San Carlos group of the Western Apache during the Apache Wars . Born about 1828 near the Pinal Mountains as a Pinaleño/Pinal Apache , through marriage into the Aravaipa , he became one of them and later their chief . He desired a lasting peace between the indigenous peoples of America and the whites . In 1871 , Eskiminzin and the Pinaleño/Pinal band of the San Carlos Apaches under Capitán Chiquito accepted an offer by the US Government to settle down and plant crops in the vicinity of Camp Grant , a fort near modern-day Tucson , Arizona . The plan was short-lived ; on April 30 , 1871 , a band of anti-Apache American civilians under William S. Oury , Mexican civilians under Jesús María Elías , and Tohono O'odham warriors under their chief Francisco Galerita launched a merciless assault on the tranquil settlement without warning . In the process of what became known as the Camp Grant massacre , 144 occupants ( almost entirely children and women ) were indiscriminately butchered and mutilated in the space of less than an hour , nearly all of them scalped . Twenty-nine children had been captured and were sold into slavery in Mexico by the Tohono O'odham and the Mexicans themselves . Eskiminzin was fortunate enough to survive the tragedy . However , later in life he was suspected of sheltering his son-in-law the Apache Kid , was imprisoned without a trial , and soon after his release , died , a broken man , in 1894
Camp Grant massacre
Camp Grant massacre
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