Biography
Kaetena was a Chiricahua Apache chief arrested by Brigadier General George Crook during his campaign in Arizona in July 1884. According to the National Park Service history, Crook sent him to Alcatraz, where he remained until March 1886. Crook subsequently described the imprisonment as a means of subduing him and obtaining assistance in controlling other Apaches. The account documents military confinement in the campaign against the Chiricahuas, without establishing a criminal charge or judicial sentence.
Kaetena was a Chiricahua Apache chief arrested by Brigadier General George Crook during his campaign in Arizona in July 1884. According to the National Park Service history, Crook sent him to Alcatraz, where he remained until March 1886. Crook subsequently described the imprisonment as a means of subduing him and obtaining assistance in controlling other Apaches. The account documents military confinement in the campaign against the Chiricahuas, without establishing a criminal charge or judicial sentence. NPS records arrest in July 1884, subsequent confinement at Alcatraz, and return to Arizona in March 1886. July is an arrest month, not an exact physical admission date. No nominal sentence or actual-service counter is inferred. March 1886 marks the end of the documented Alcatraz phase and return to Arizona, not an independently established final discharge from military custody; final release remains unknown.
Erwin N. Thompson, The Rock (NPS, 1979), printed page 297 (PDF page 310).