Elsie Vance Chestuen was brought into the world in 1873, her Indian name was Chestuen. Her mom was Dilth-cley-ih, little girl of the Apache Boss Bidu-ya, Beduiat known as Victorio.

Elsie Vance Chestuen was brought into the world in 1873, her Indian name was Chestuen. Her mom was Dilth-cley-ih, little girl of the Apache Boss Bidu-ya, Beduiat known as Victorio. Elsie's dad is obscure, her mom wedded Mangus who was the child of Mangas Coloradas, Head of the Chiricahua Apaches.Elsie was shipped off the Carlisle Indian Modern School on fourth November 1886 when she was 13 years old,she was enlisted as Elsie Vanci. Carlisle and different schools like this have been a quarrelsome issue with the Local Americans, many say that kids had to leave their families quite early in life. They had to switch their Indian names and give around their societies, dialects, and religion.

Elsie was exclusively at Carlisle school for 3 years.On the 30th of May 1889, when she was 16 years of age, she was shipped off Alabama because of disease, she remained with another Indian woman called Mollie. Elsie probably moved back to her home at some stage, as she passed on at Post Ledge on April fifteenth 1898, from tuberculosis. She was 26 years of age, Elsie Vance Chestuen, is covered at the Meat Brook Apache Graveyard in Oklahoma.