Youkeoma, meanwhile, chose to resist white schooling to the very end, prompting Agent Reuben Perry on November 4, 1906, with the aid of soldiers, to enter Hotevilla, where they rounded up eighty-two children for enrollment at Keams Canyon. For good measure, Youkeoma and sixteen other resisters were then arrested and imprisoned—this time at Fort Huachuca in southern Arizona. Perhaps after yet another period of incarceration, it was reasoned, the old man would be persuaded on the necessity of cooperating with Washington. But again, when released from prison the following year, Youkeoma and his
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