Next, Guidotti discusses how women and children were treated by talking about how Apache women were thought of as "irredeemable", so they were raped and killed. Contrastingly, Guidotti explains that Apache children were thought of as "salvageable". The children whose lives were spared were sold, enslaved, or adopted by Tucson Mexican families. They were considered genderless and thus weren't considered as adults capable of insurrection. Guidotti states, "These complex gender relations among the Apache suggest that rape was used as a weapon to sexualize dominate and reinstate a Western gender and sexual order with respect to Apache women during the massacre"(p. 22). Guidotti ties the events preceding the massacre concluding that it, "shows how
