The Apaches

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The Apaches
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History of the Apaches

• The Apache people (including the Navajo) came
  from the Far North to settle the Plains and
  Southwest around A.D. 850.They settled in three
  desert regions, the Great Basin, the Sonoran, and
  the Chihuachuan.The Navajo are not part of the
  Apache nation. They are their own honored nation.
  They only share the Athabscan language with the
  Apaches. The Apaches speak the Athabscan
  language, which originated in their former
  homeland of northwestern Canada.

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How the Apaches lived

• They exchanged buffalo hides, tallow and meat,
  bones that could be worked into needles and
  scrapers for hides, and salt from the desert with
  the Pueblos for pottery, cotton, blankets,
  turquoise, corn and other goods. But at times
  they simply saw what they wanted and took it.
  They became known among the Pueblo villages by
  another name, Apachu, "the enemy".

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The Apaches today

• Today several of the Apache reservations have
  lead to a commercial development of reservation
  resources. The White Mountain Apaches of Arizona
  manage the popular Sunrise Park Ski Resort and
  Fort Apache Timber Company.

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The Groups of the Apaches

• These distinct groups can be organized by
  dialectsThe Western Apaches (Coyotero)
  traditionally occupied most of eastern Arizona
  and included the White Mountain, Cibuecue, San
  Carlos, and Northern and Southern Tonto bands.
  San Carlos, Aravaipa, White Mountain, Northern
  Tonto, Southern Tonto, and Cibecue in Arizona,
  Chiricahua and Mimbreno in Arizona and New
  Mexico, Mescalero (Faraon) in New Mexico and
  Mexico, Jicarilla (Tinde) in New Mexico and
  Colorado, Kiowa-Apache (Gataka) in Oklahoma, and
  Lipan in Texas and Mexico.