History and government of New Mexico . g had become an art with them, to be prac-ticed when it would save them from punishment; andtreaty breaking, a regular procedure when it was more years than any living New Mexican could countthey had been needing a sound whipping. Now they hadit. New Mexico could breathe easier. 214. Difficulties at the Bosque Redondo. — But theBosque Redondo colonizing scheme did not work. TheIndians were hostile amorfg themselves, hated the whitesand were hated by them, constantly chafed under captivityin a new and strange region. They were lazy, indolent,and s
History and government of New Mexico . g had become an art with them, to be prac-ticed when it would save them from punishment; andtreaty breaking, a regular procedure when it was more years than any living New Mexican could countthey had been needing a sound whipping. Now they hadit. New Mexico could breathe easier. 214. Difficulties at the Bosque Redondo. — But theBosque Redondo colonizing scheme did not work. TheIndians were hostile amorfg themselves, hated the whitesand were hated by them, constantly chafed under captivityin a new and strange region. They were lazy, indolent,and sullen. Disease spread among them; and starva-tion was ahead unless the government fed them. The Mescaleros fled in 1866 and went on the came a change of policy. A peace commission fromWashington came out in 1868 and signed a treaty allowingthe Navajos to return to a reservation in their own country, THE CILIL WAR 181 northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Sumner was abandoned. The Navajos had not been %m-. On the Trail of Geronimo From Personal Recollections of General Miles 182 THE HISTORY OF NEW MEXICO civilized, but the fear of the white mans power had beenput in his heart. His militant spirit was broken, and hehas given no more serious trouble. 215. The Apaches on the Warpath. — The MescaleroApaches who ran away from the Bosque in 1866 wereplaced on a reservation near Fort Stanton in Apaches were still as warlike and fond of plunder asthey had been for centuries, and after 1870 were armed with late model repeating riflesand well supplied with ammuni-tion secured through unscrupu-lous white traders. After the removal of the Nav-ajos to their reservation in thenorthwest and the Mescalerosand other Apaches to theirs atFort Stanton there was a tempo-rary lull in Indian troubles. Inthe seventies there was compar-ative peace. Events proved,General George H. Crook however> that it was only the calm before the gathering storm. In 187
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