Not completely — the record is fragmentary, as it always is when history is primarily oral and when the people who lived it were pursued, imprisoned, and died far from their homeland.

But enough survives to see the outline of an extraordinary life.

Here is what the evidence shows.

The World She Was Born Into

Lozen was born into the Warm Springs Apache, one of the bands of the Chiricahua Apache people, probably in the 1840s.

The exact date is unknown — Apache oral tradition did not maintain records in the way that Anglo-American society did, and the disruption of the Apache Wars meant that many specific details about the lives of individuals before the conflict were never formally recorded.

The Warm Springs Apache were also known as the Chihenne, or Red Paint People.