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Notches In The Sky
Fox Gulch, Tonto N.F., Arizona

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Mike Burns, born Hoomothya, was around eight years old in 1872 when the US military murdered his family and as many as seventy-six other Yavapai men, women, and children in the Skeleton Cave Massacre. One of only a few young survivors, he was adopted by an army captain and ended up serving as a scout in the US army. Born in the shadows of these very peaks, known as Four Peaks today, said his people called them: "Wee-ka-ja-hor", meaning, "Four notches or cuts, as with an axe."
December 3, 2024 at 2:29 AM