Chato (Apache)

Mahtank, better known as Chato, Chaddo, Alfred Chato or Chatto (* 1860, † 1934), was a leader of the Chiricahua Apaches.

Upset about the U.S. policy left Chato together with Geronimo in 1881 the San Carlos Reservation in present-day New Mexico and went to the Sierra Madre region of Mexico. Chato and Geronimo came back sporadically in the United States and thereby committed several robberies. In March 1883, on the way back to Mexico the Apaches killed under Benito Chato and several Americans. In February 1884 Chato was forced with about sixty Indians to surrender. A month later capitulated Geronimo. In 1885, Geronimo again the San Carlos Reservation. Chato followed him and tried unsuccessfully to return to retune. From 1886 he served as a scout under General George Crook in the U.S. Army, where he excelled in track down Geronimo. However, it was later banned with the Apaches, which he himself had tracked in Fort Marion (Florida ) jail. His children were forced to go to the Carlisle Indian School, where she died shortly thereafter. From 1913 he lived in the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico, in a car accident where he died in 1934.