An account of the Cibicue Creek conflict by Daklugie:

"I was at Cibicu. I was just a boy and did not see much that occurred except at the camp of Nakaidoklini, and not all of that. But my father, who participated, witnessed much more than I. This is the Apache side of the story."

"We were on the Apache reservation at San Carlos. In early summer of 1881, my father learned that the Medicine Man, Nakaidoklini, was teaching a dance to those who went to him."

"Sergeant Mose, an Indian scout from Fort Apache, came out to Cibicu to warn the Medicine Man (Nakaidoklini) that troops were coming to arrest him. When told that he was under arrest, the Medicine Man agreed quietly to go. His wife and son followed."

"As they rode off many warriors followed-- among them Geronimo, Juh, Chihuahua, and Naiche, who had gone along to assure that there would be no treachery. The Apaches did not go close until they saw the Medicine Man in a sort of barricade made of supplies carried by the soldiers. Although the Indians were doing nothing but watching, an officer called to them to leave. This they refused to do."

"Suddenly a shot was fired-- then many. My father did not know who fired the first shot, but once the fight started, the Apaches got into it. Men were killed on both sides. Nakaidoklini was hit. When the Medicine Man's wife attempted to reach her husband, she also was shot, as was his son, arriving with his horse. When the wounded Nakaidoklini got up on hands and knees and tried to crawl to his wife's body, a soldier killed him with an axe."

"The bugle call for sleep was blown, but Juh did not believe the soldiers would spend the night in that camp. They stayed long enough to dig graves inside a tent and bury their dead."

"My father learned later that Carr reported an attack on Fort Apache the next day. If so, it was done by somebody other than our forces. Any sniper could have fired into that fort because it was not walled."

Indeh: An Apache Odyssey, by Eve Ball, p.52-55