Whether this kind of analysis has been applied to any materials in the Skull and Bones collection is not documented in the public record.

The Fort Sill Apache Prisoners And The Cemetery They Built

The Apache prisoners of war who lived at Fort Sill from 1894 to 1913 were not passive residents of their confinement.

They established a community within the constraints of military supervision.

They built houses, farmed, maintained their cultural practices as much as permitted, and raised children.

The community they created at Fort Sill was a functioning, if constrained, community — not simply a barracks of captives but a group of people making the best possible life within the worst possible circumstances.

The cemetery they built for their dead — Apache Village — was an act of community care for the departed.