The Apache Woman Who Fought Beside Geronimo — And The Forgotten Story Of Lozen, The Warrior History Almost Forgot
The individuals who participated in these operations needed to be physically capable of sustained, extreme effort — the raids that kept Apache bands supplied and mobile often involved riding hundreds of miles in a few days.
The oral tradition also attributes to Lozen a specific ceremonial or spiritual gift: the power to locate the position of enemies.
The accounts describe a ceremony in which she would stand with her palms upturned and her face turned toward the sky, turning slowly, praying to Ussen (the Apache supreme being), and receiving information about the location and proximity of enemies.
Her palms would reportedly tingle or change color when turned toward enemy positions.
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