Biography
Chatto was the leading member of an Apache delegation sent to Washington in 1886 during negotiations over the Chiricahuas’ future location. On the delegation’s return journey, the government stopped its passage home and held its members at Fort Leavenworth. Captain Dorst’s August 14 report individually names Chatto and describes his uneasiness at this detention; the subsequent correspondence continued to prevent their return to Arizona and directed the delegation to Florida.
Chatto was the leading member of an Apache delegation sent to Washington in 1886 during negotiations over the Chiricahuas’ future location. On the delegation’s return journey, the government stopped its passage home and held its members at Fort Leavenworth. Captain Dorst’s August 14 report individually names Chatto and describes his uneasiness at this detention; the subsequent correspondence continued to prevent their return to Arizona and directed the delegation to Florida. The August 14, 1886 report expressly discusses Chatto’s detention at Fort Leavenworth. Later August correspondence continued the restraint. This establishes substantive detention, without treating the earlier Washington visit or all travel under an escort as imprisonment. No individual admission or final discharge date, exact day total or judicial sentence inferred.
