New Year's Day on January 1 is normally celebrated as the start of a new year, a day off from work and a day to eat black eyed peas for good luck. On the Apache calendar, January 1 is the day in 1860 when Arizona Territory Indian fighter and politician King Woolsey declared that “a broad platform of extinction is appropriate for Indian problem.” Woolsey would later carry out several campaigns against Native Americans.
It is fascinating to review the calendar created by the Yavapai-Apache
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