White Mountain Apache War Memorial

Apache men have served under the American flag since the scouts of the 1870s, a fraught inheritance on a reservation the Army built to contain them. This memorial in Whiteriver, dedicated in 1969, carries four names: Roy Burnette, Ross Colelay, Ross Pinal, and Cyrus Burnette. They are the community's own, remembered by the White Mountain Apache the way any town honors the people it sent to war. The stone says less than the fort down the road, and somehow more.

What the plaque says

January 11, 1969. , Roy Burnette , Ross Colelay , Ross Pinal , Cyrus Burnette

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Apache Historic Park — 3.4 mi
  The Army fort that became a boarding school — and came back to the Apache
• Mount Baldy — 24 mi
  Dzil Ligai Si'an, the sacred White Mountain, and the summit you stop short of

More markers nearby

• Theodore Roosevelt School — 3.4 mi
• First Commanding Officer's Quarters — 3.4 mi
• Kinishba Ruins — 5.3 mi