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In 1886, Massai, Geronimo, and
other Apache dissidents surrendered to the U.S. Army. Subsequently, Massai
became one of the Apache prisoners scheduled to be taken to Fort Marion,
Florida. In Kansas, while en route to Florida, he escaped from the train
and made his way back to Arizona. There he seized a Mescalero Apache woman
and engaged in raids on Mexican and white settlements for supplies and
food.
For over twenty years, he eluded the army and the law in Arizona and Mexico.
Mickey Free, the noted army scout, pursued him unsuccesfully during this
time. Massai Canyon and Massai Point in the Chiricahua National Monument
in Arizona derive their names from him.
Source: The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography,
by Bruce E. Johansen and Donald A. Grinde, page 241.
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