Where they differ or where they make claims that cannot be corroborated, appropriate caution is required.

For Lozen, the oral accounts are remarkably consistent, and many of the specific episodes attributed to her — her presence during specific phases of the resistance, her role in specific crossings and engagements — can be placed within the documented framework of events that the military and administrative records do confirm.

The Apache Tradition of Women Warriors

Lozen was extraordinary, but she was not entirely without precedent in the Apache tradition.

The Apache recognized the possibility of women choosing the warrior path, and there are other women in Apache history who followed it.