An inaccurate answer/question in Jeopardy!

In the Jeopardy format it is hard to tell which to call the question and which the answer.

On Monday or Tuesday, January 25 or 26, there was a category in Jeopardy or double jeopardy called "C" Life". All the clues refered to someone whose name name starts with "C".

And one of the clues was about a famous Apache leader who it claimed had problems with (General George) Crook and died on a reservation in 1874.

A famous Apache leader who died peacefully on a reservation in 1874 and whose name started with "C" would obviously be Cochise (c. 1805-June 8, 1874).

So the contestant who said Cochise was correct.

But Cochise was quite lucky that he didn't have any major problems with General Crook.

All the western Apache groups in Arizona and western New Mexico entered a state of hostility with the Americans at different times in the early 1860s. One group, the Coyotero or White Mountain Apaches, made peace in 1869.

Another group, Eskiminzin and the Aravaipa Apaches, made peace at Camp Grant in 1871. But Apaches were not popular, and a group of Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O'odham Indians, who all agreed that the only good Apache was a dead Apache, massacred over a hundred of those surrendered Apaches on April 30, 1871.

After that notorious incident, the government sent two peace envoys, Vincent Collyer and General O.O. Howard, to Arizona to make peace treaties with the various Apache groups and establish reservations for them, and sent General George Crook to defeat any Apaches who remained hostile.

Collyer and Howard persuaded most Apache groups to give reservation life a try. In 1872, only the Tontos, a mixed group of Apaches and Yavapais, and the Chiricahuas under Cochise had not made peace. But General Howard returned to Arizona, met Cochise, and established a reservation for the Chiricahuas in their homeland on October 12, 1872. In the nick of time, since Crook had already left his headquarters to begin his campaign against Cochise.

So Crook called off the attack on Cochise and turned all his force on the Tontos in a campaign over the winter of 1872-1873, and the Tontos were crushed. Since then, the vast majority of the Apaches remained in peace on their reservations, and the famous outbreaks over the next 13 years involved only a small minority of all the western Apaches.

I believe General Crook visited Cochise on his reservation once to see how things were going there and if the Chiricahuas were keeping their part of the treaty, and that is all the interaction that they had. And Cochise probably thought that he was lucky that he didn't have any worse troubles than that with General Crook.

Actually I have heard of Apache leaders whose names started with "C" who did have big trouble with General Crook, Chuntz, Cochinay, and Chan-deisi. They led an outbreak from San Carlos in 1873. Apache scouts tracked them down and turned in their heads to General Crook for the rewards. But they are much less well known than Cochise and only a few persons would have ever heard of them. The other leader of the outbreak in 1873 was Delshay, who had two heads - at least the general paid for two.