Fort Apache Historic Park on the White Mountain Apache reservation preserves two linked chapters of history on the former Fort Apache and Theodore Roosevelt School grounds. Established in 1870 as a military camp and made a permanent post in 1873, it became Fort Apache in 1879 and served in the Indian Wars as both an outpost against Apache power and a recruiting point for Apache scouts; Buffalo Soldiers were also stationed there. In 1923 the site passed to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and became a boarding school shaped by federal assimilation policies. Today its surviving buildings and landscape reflect conflict, coercion, adaptation, and continued White Mountain Apache stewardship.