Ohatchecama (Yavapai: "Striking Enemy"; also known as Ocho-cama and Ah-oochy Kah-mah, among other variations) was a Tolkepaya Yavapai leader who was arrested for taking part in the Wickenburg Massacre. Fighting broke out between soldiers as they attempted to arrest the Yavapai leader, and Ohatchecama's brother was killed. The next day, Ohatchecama was seriously wounded while trying to escape and was reported dead, but survived his injuries and later turned up at Fort Date Creek.
Notes
- Gentile 1870.
- Braatz 2003, p. 155.
- Books of the Southwest: The Wickenburg Massacre
- Farish 1918.
- Braatz 2003, pp. 135–36.
References
- Braatz, Timothy (2003), Surviving Conquest, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 978-0-8032-2242-7
- Farish, T. E. (1918), "XVI", History of Arizona (Vol. VIII), Filmer Brothers Electrotype Company
- Gentile, Carlo (1870), "Ah-oochy Kah-mah & his friend Irateba Two Tonto Apache girls, civilized & christians, good girls ; Coyotero Apache woman, sold by her lord & master for 40 yards Manta at Camp Grant ; Joséa, Pimo [i.e., Pima] Fat Boy, front view.", Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved 19 May 2015
- Books of the Southwest: The Wickenburg Massacre