Apache Horses Were Vital Allies in War, Travel, and Survival
Chiricahua Apache, horses meant mobility, freedom, and resistance. But they were also food in times of desperation, and trophies of war when captured in raids.
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Arts and Crafts of the Apache Tribes
The Apache tribes are well known for their beautiful and practical arts and crafts. Out of all their skills, basket weaving stands out as the one they are most famous for. Apache people also make beadwork, clothing, pottery, and carvings.…
How many Apache sub-tribes were there and where were they located?
QUESTION:
How many Apache sub-tribes were there and where were they located?
~Submitted by Mindy D.
ANSWER:
The original homelands of the Apache Indians were in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, western Oklahoma, Western Texas, and Northern Mexico. The Jicarilla also ranged into what is now Kansas. The Apache tribe consists of six subtribes: the Western Apache, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan and Kiowa. Each subtribe is from a different geographial region.
Cochise Bio, Apache Chief
Cochise was born about 1805 in an area that is now the northern Mexican region of Sonora, New Mexico, and Arizona as a member of the Chokonen-Chiricahua Apache tribe.
Lipan Apache Tribe
Present-day Lipan Apaches mostly live throughout the U.S. Southwest, in Texas, and on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, as well as with the Mescalero tribe on the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico. The San Carlos and Mescalero tribes have federal recognition. The Lipan Apache Tribe is a state-recognized tribe headquartered in McAllen, Texas. Some Lipans also live in urban and rural areas throughout North America (Mexico, United States and Canada).
Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation
The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation calls Central Arizona’s upper Sonoran Desert home. Located to the northeast of Phoenix within Maricopa County, Arizona, the 40-square mile reservation is a small part of the ancestral territory of the once nomadic Yavapai people, who hunted and gathered food in a vast area of Arizona’s desert lowlands and mountainous Mogollon Rim country.