Editing Apache (section)

===Defeat===
Most United States' histories of this era report that the final defeat of an Apache band took place when 5,000 US troops forced [[Geronimo]]'s group of 30 to 50 men, women and children to surrender on September 4, 1886, at [[Skeleton Canyon]], Arizona.<ref>Miles, p. 526</ref> The Army sent this band and the Chiricahua scouts who had tracked them to military confinement in [[Florida]] at [[Fort Pickens]] and, subsequently, [[Ft. Sill]], Oklahoma.

Many books were written on the stories of hunting and trapping during the late 19th century. Many of these stories involve Apache raids and the failure of agreements with Americans and Mexicans. In the post-war era, the US government arranged for Apache children to be taken from their families for adoption by white Americans in assimilation programs.<ref>"[http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/article/native-americans-expose-the-adoption-era-and-repair-its-devastation-65966 Stephanie Woodward, "Native Americans Expose the Adoption Era and Repair Its Devastation"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006094813/http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/article/native-americans-expose-the-adoption-era-and-repair-its-devastation-65966 |date=2013-10-06 }}, Indian Country Today Media Network, Retrieved 3 March 2013.</ref>