Mangas Coloradas [SEP] position held
Mangas Coloradas
Mangas Coloradas or Mangus-Colorado (La-choy Ko-kun-noste, alias "Red Sleeve"), or Dasoda-hae ("He Just Sits There") (c. 1793 – January 18, 1863) was an Apache tribal chief and a member of the Mimbreño (Tchihende) division of the Central Apaches, whose homeland stretched west from the Rio Grande to include most of what is present-day southwestern New Mexico. He was the father-in-law of the Chiricahua
After Floyd joined the Confederacy, it was renamed to honor a Captain George McLane, who had been killed by Navajos. It was finally abandoned in 1864.
In the context of the Apache Wars, the Apache chief Mangas Coloradas held a council here with the white settlers in about 1863, where the Apache were promised provisions in return for peace, according to Geronimo. Mangas Coloradas and his people duly arrived and were "foully murdered after he surrendered".
In 1877, Billy the Kid joined a group of "