Editing Geronimo (section)

=== Massacre at Janos ===
On March 5, 1851, a company of 400&nbsp;Mexican soldiers from [[Sonora]] led by Colonel José María Carrasco attacked Geronimo's camp outside [[Janos, Chihuahua]] (Kas-Ki-Yeh in Apache) while the men were in town trading.<ref>{{cite book |last=Haugen |first=Brenda |title=Geronimo: Apache Warrior |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0cGqKcWIlTIC&pg=PA9 |year=2005 |publisher=Capstone |pages=9–12 |isbn=978-0756518455 |access-date=November 12, 2015 |archive-date=September 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190915143908/https://books.google.com/books?id=0cGqKcWIlTIC&pg=PA9 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Geronimo His own story |url=http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/biographies/geronimo/kas-ki-yeh.php |website=American History – From Revolution to Reconstruction and what happened afterwards |access-date=May 12, 2016 |archive-date=February 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216035748/http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/biographies/geronimo/kas-ki-yeh.php |url-status=live }}</ref> Carrasco claimed he had followed the Apaches to Janos, after they had conducted a raid in Sonora, taken livestock and other plunder and badly defeated Mexican militia.{{sfn|Debo|1996|p=34}}{{sfn|Utley|2012|pp=26–27}} Among those killed in Carrasco's attack were Geronimo's wife, children and mother.{{sfn|Utley|2012|p=27}}{{sfn|Utley|2012|pp=27, 28}} The loss of his family led Geronimo to hate all Mexicans for the rest of his life; he and his followers would frequently attack and kill any group of Mexicans that they encountered.{{sfn|Utley|2012|p=130}} Throughout Geronimo's adult life his antipathy toward, suspicion of, and dislike for Mexicans was demonstrably greater than for Americans.{{sfn|Debo|1996|pp=37–39}}

Recalling that at the time his band was at peace with the Mexicans, Geronimo remembered the incident as follows:<blockquote>Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other town had attacked our camp, killed all the warriors of the guard, captured all our ponies, secured our arms, destroyed our supplies, and killed many of our women and children. Quickly we separated, concealing ourselves as best we could until nightfall, when we assembled at our appointed place of rendezvous&nbsp;– a thicket by the river. Silently we stole in one by one, sentinels were placed, and when all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sweeney |first=Edwin R. |editor-first=Charles Leland |editor-last=Sonnichsen |title=Geronimo and the End of the Apache Wars |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HcM0JnSsHcEC&pg=PA36 |year=1986 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |page=36 |isbn=0803291981 |access-date=November 12, 2015 |archive-date=January 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105060931/https://books.google.com/books?id=HcM0JnSsHcEC&pg=PA36 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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