This Apache tear Pendant is on Stainless Steel Chain with magnetic Closure and is about 20" long.

Apache tear is approx. 1.5" long and 1" wide and wrapped in silver plated Wire

Apache Tears are said to especially relieve grief and sadness as well as assisting in giving and accepting forgiveness. They can help release negative emotions, and they also can balance one's emotional state. They are good luck stones, said to bring good luck to anyone who has one.

Story of Apache Tears

            In July of 1870, the Apaches were living life as they always did until “General George Stoneman deemed it necessary to establish an outpost” (The Legend of Apache...) west of what is now called Superior, AZ.  Things did not start to get worst until the winter, when the tribes were having a difficult time gathering and hunting.  The buffalo and vegetation were scarce and the Apache men did not know how they were going to feed their families and tribes.  In desperate need of food, the “Pinal Apaches had made several raids on a settlements” (Native American...) but after these raids the ranchers decided to do something about it.

             US Calvary Company B and the ranchers gathered and went on a search for the Apache tribes.  During the search, the men found a hidden trail leading up Big Picacho to where the Apaches camp was.

             Not knowing that their camp had been discovered, the tribes were unprepared for the attack that was coming.  After finding the trail up to the camp, the soldiers proceed to up the mountain for a sneak attack. 

            With the Apaches unaware of the soldiers coming up the mountain, they had no time to prepare.  Within moments, the soldiers had killed “nearly 50 of the band of 75 Apaches were killed in the first volley of shots” (Apache Tears) causing the rest to retreat.  With nowhere to go the rest decided to “retreated to the cliff's edge and chose death by leaping over the edge rather than die at the hands of the white man” (Apache Tears) leaving the women to grieve the death of their men.           

       It is said that they gathered a “short distance from the base of the cliff where the sands were white, and for a moon they wept for their dead.  They mourned greatly, for they realized that not only had their 75 brave Apache warriors died, but with them had died the great fighting spirit of the Pinal Apaches”  (Native American Indian Legends).  The spirits were greatly saddened and made a stone were the tears of the Apache women and their loved ones hit the ground called the Apache Tear.