Case file · Folklore / legend
Nock-ay-det-klinne and Cibecue Creek
In 1881 the Cibecue Apache medicine man Nock-ay-det-klinne led dances said to be able to bring back dead leaders; on 30 August soldiers arrested him, Apache scouts mutinied, and he was killed in the fight at Cibecue Creek, Arizona.
1881 CE · 34.05, -110.48 · status: official
The account
The army's fear of the movement mirrors its later reaction to the Ghost Dance. Most of the 23 Apache scouts turned on the soldiers, the largest such mutiny of the Apache Wars; three were later hanged.
The sceptical view
Accounts of what the dances promised come largely from army officers and agents who saw them as a threat.