Fort-Apache News

Nine girls and women, their identities protected from the public, say they were assaulted by a Fort Apache resident named Jefferson Gatewood beginning in September 1992 and continuing through 2010.

The Theodore Roosevelt School at Fort Apache has been designated a National Historic Landmark for its role in the "highly complex and dynamic interactions" between the federal government and the tribes they were trying to assimilate and control.

Authorities sat Fort Apache was an important base for recruitment of Apache scouts and operations as well as an important node in the dynamic of forts established in support of westward expansion.

Blackened, rusted and bent, a barbed wire fence snakes along the boundary of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation and the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests in eastern Arizona's White Mountains.