Flechas Rayadas


Flechas Rayadas or Striped Arrows was a Jicarilla Apache chief of the band that, together with Francisco Chacon's warriors, defeated Lieutenant Davidson's detachment of 60 men from the First Regiment of Dragoons in the Battle of Cieneguilla, in the Embudo Mountains, on April 4, 1854, killing 22 and wounding 36. On April 7, being Lieutenant Colonel Cooke on the Jicarillas' trail, General Garland sent word to Cooke that a chief of the Jicarillas who had attacked Lieutenant Davidson's command, Flechas Rayadas, had offered to return all the horses and arms captured in that fight if peace could be made; the chief's proposal was rejected.