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Biography of Carlos MontezumaName: Carlos MontezumaBirth Date: c. 1865 Death Date: January 23, 1923 Place of Birth: Arizona, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: physician, leader, activist Carlos Montezuma Carlos Montezuma (ca. 1865-1923), was a Yavapai (Mohave-Apache) university-educated medical doctor and political leader, who bridged both cultures.Contributed by Thomas L. Altherr, Professor of History and American Studies, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, ColoradoName variations: Hejelweiikam (Left Alone) during Pima captivity in the early 1870s. Born Wassaja (signalling or beckoning) sometime in the 1860s among Yavapai in southern or central Arizona; died on January 23, 1923, at Fort McDowell Reservation; son of Coluyevah and Thilgeyah; married: Marie Keller, September 19, 1913; children: none.Sometime in the mid-1860s, perhaps as early as 1865 or as late as 1867, Carlos Montezuma was born as Wassaja to Yavapai parents in a band in central or southern Arizona. As that period was quite turbulent, given Anglo-mining expansion and settlement and warfare among the southern Arizona tribes, Wassaja's childhood was far from uninterrupted play. Indeed in 1871, the Yavapai's longtime enemies, the Pimas, attacked Wassaja's band and carried him off, …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Alexander Graham Bell obtained patent for telephone1888: George Eastman introduced Kodak camera1908: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created1916: Albert Einstein presented theory of relativity1922: Benito Mussolini became dictator of Italy Further Reading American Indian Magazine. 1912-1923. Papers, Carlos Montezuma at Arizona State University, Chicago Historical Society, University of Arizona, University of Illinois, and Wisconsin State Historical Society.Wassaja. 1916--1922.Hertzberg, Hazel W. The Search for an American Indian Identity; Modern Pan-Indian Movements. Syracuse University Press, 1971.Iverson, Peter. Carlos Montezuma and the Changing World of American Indians. University of New Mexico Press, 1982. Olson, James and Robert Wilson. The Native American in the Twentieth Century. University of Illinois Press, 1984.Prucha, Paul Francis, ed. Americanizing the American Indian: Writings of the "Friends of the Indians," 1880-1900. University of Nebraska Press, 1982.Spicer, Edward H. Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533-1960. University of Arizona Press, 1962. |