Zebina Streeter (October 8, 1838 – June 26, 1889) was an American renegade known for the time he spent with the Apache tribes.
Beginning in the 1870s, he raided Mexico and the Southwestern United States with Juh, a Chiricahua leader.
Fluent in Spanish and knowledgeable in the Apache language, Streeter worked as an interpreter at Fort Craig.
[2] In 1872, Streeter joined General Oliver Otis Howard to negotiate a treaty with Cochise.
Streeter claimed he ran afoul with the "Indian Ring" of war profiteers, and subsequently deserted his post and fled to the Chiricahua band of Juh and Geronimo.
The Governor of Arizona Territory, Anson P. K. Safford, named Streeter an outlaw and placed a $5,000 bounty on his head.
In 1876, Streeter convinced Mariscal, newly Governor of Sonora, to allow the Chiricahua to settle in Mexico after the closure of their reservation.
[5] There are claims that Streeter faked his death in order to avoid the bounty on his head.
It brough shame on the tribe to acknowledge the relationship, as intermarriage with whites was considered dishonorable.