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The Apache people are a Native American group belonging to the Athapaskan linguistic family, primarily located in the Southwest regions of the United States, including Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Historically, they are believed to be the last Indigenous group to have migrated from Asia to North America. Their culture is rich, featuring deep spiritual beliefs and a highly mobile lifestyle, which required skillful adaptability to the harsh desert environment. The Apache are traditionally divided into two broad groups: Western and Eastern Apache, with further subdivisions including the Chiricahua, Mescalero, and Jicarilla, among others.

Apache societal structure is characterized by clearly defined gender roles, with women handling gathering and domestic responsibilities, while men focused on hunting, weaponry, and raiding. The Apache have a notable history of resistance against colonization, facing conflicts with European settlers and later the United States military. Despite efforts to suppress their culture and way of life, Apache communities have persisted and even thrived, with a population of approximately 191,823 as of 2022. Many Apache now live on reservations where they manage resources to sustain their communities, engage in economic development, and uphold their cultural traditions. Today, they continue to navigate the challenges of modern life while preserving their identity and heritage.

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  • CULTURE AREA: Southwest
  • LANGUAGE GROUP: Athapaskan
  • PRIMARY LOCATION: Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma
  • POPULATION SIZE: per 2023-25 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
    • Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma: 188,120
    • Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona: 15,342
    • San Carlos Apache Reservation: 10,552
    • Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma Caddo-Wichita-Delaware joint-use: 9,240
    • Jicarilla Apache Nation of New Mexico: 3,176
    • Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona: 909
    • Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona: 103

The Apache people are part of the Athapaskan linguistic group, believed to be the last group to have crossed over to North America from Asia. Most of the Athapaskan speakers spread out into northern Canada and down the Pacific coast, but ancestors of the Apache pursued a more interior route, probably moving south along the eastern flank of the Rocky Mountains. At some point, the group that would become the Navajo split off, although retaining enough linguistic similarity to enable Navajo and Apache speakers to converse. The Apache people spread out in the Southwest, inhabiting primarily the areas now known as Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and northern Mexico. They were driven west from the southern Plains in the eighteenth century by the Comanche.

Traditional Culture

The Apache called themselves “Tin-ne-áh,” or “the people,” as many Indigenous American groups did in their own languages. The origin of the name Apache is widely disputed but is agreed to have been given to them by their enemies. The Apache separated into two broad groups, Western and Eastern. The Eastern Apache were the Plains groups, the Jicarilla and the Lipan, whose culture showed the influence of contact with other Plains tribes. To the west were three main divisions: the Mescalero, the Chiricahua, and the Western Apache. Five major groups made up the Western Apache. The White Mountain, which had a Western and an Eastern band—often called Coyotero—held the largest territory. The remaining four Western groups were the San Carlos or Gileño, Cibicue, and the Southern and Northern Tonto peoples. These bands were further subdivided into smaller, extended family groups that supported their highly mobile existence, each designated by its own particular name, often associated with a favorite haunt. Defining early Apache bands is made difficult by the Spanish practice of naming a band for the location where they were encountered, or after a powerful chief.

Life in the deserts of the Southwest was harsh, and the Apache way of life prepared its members for survival with a rich and meaningful culture. Folktales involving coyote and other animal spirits illustrated proper as well as improper behavior and its consequences. Spirituality was inherent in every aspect of life, and great care was taken to observe rituals and taboos. The number four was important, and the east was favored as the most holy direction.

Although bands were small and children were valued highly, a crying baby could betray the entire group to enemy extinction. Thus, from early infancy, the Apache child was trained in self-control. The ability to remain motionless and to be quiet for long periods of time, a skill learned in the cradleboard, served the grown warrior well as he hunted or waited in ambush for an enemy.

The most important time in an Apache child’s life occurred at puberty. For girls, this was marked by the onset of menses and celebrated by a puberty ceremony that lasted four days, involving blessings with sacred pollen and culminating in the girl’s run to the east. During the four days, the girl assumed the identity of White Painted Woman, a supernatural figure of the Apache creation myth. An Apache boy was inducted into manhood by serving an apprenticeship to raiding warriors. The novice was required to observe certain taboos and carry special equipment on four raids, and was required to perform camp tasks such as gathering wood and cooking for the warriors.

Adult Apache men and women had clear, gender-defined tasks. Women were responsible for gathering and processing wild foods, cooking what they gathered as well as any meat brought in by the men and boys, and the manufacture of all necessary camp equipment, clothing, and personal effects—except weapons. Women also constructed the family dwelling. Although some of the Plains Apache used tipis, camps were usually composed of the brush-covered wickiups, easy to construct and then abandon. A man’s primary task while in camp was to make weaponry, and arrow-making took up most of his time. His other responsibilities included hunting and raiding or war. A married man also became an economic contributor to his wife’s family.

Contact and Resistance

The earliest contact the Apache people had with European explorers is believed to have occurred in the sixteenth century. The Spanish were pushing north from New Spain in modern-day Mexico, and several parties encountered bands whose description matched that of Apache. Raiding for supplies was an important part of Apache life, leading to inevitable conflict with Europeans. The earliest known violence involved Gaspar Castano de Sosa, whose party set out for adventure and was raided by a band of Apache, who captured some stock and killed an Indigenous man among Castano’s party. Men were sent to punish the raiders; they killed and captured several of the raiding party.

As colonization progressed, Spanish soldiers were accompanied by Catholic priests eager to convert any subdued Indigenous peoples. The converts were used as ready labor, often enslaved, to build missions and rancherias in the vast new country of the Southwest. In the seventeenth century, the Pueblo Revolt on the northeastern frontier sent the Spanish south, with Eastern Apache attacking the Spaniards as they fled. The Spanish returned, however, and by 1697, once again occupied the region.

When the Mexicans won their freedom from Spain in 1824, they also abandoned peace agreements made with various Apache groups. Raiding, which had never stopped, increased as the new government could not field any force to match the Apache. Trouble on the Santa Fe Trail, which was established in 1822, led to a bounty being placed on Apache scalps. By the time the area passed into United States control after the Mexican-American War, the Apache people had a reputation as fearsome enemies.

Apache and American relations were frustrating for both sides. The Apache people found that farming—which the United States government expected them to embrace as their new livelihood—did not always provide for their families, and they could not understand why the Americans opposed their continued raids into Mexico for supplies. Treaties made by the United States government were often broken for political expediency. Apache leaders were lured with promises of peace, then arrested and sometimes killed. Army officers would spend years establishing peaceful relations with key Apache leaders, only to see their efforts destroyed by a single party of drunken vigilantes bent on exterminating any Apache they encountered—generally women and children.

The course of the Apache Wars is a tangled story of capitulation, betrayal, and outbreaks of tribes believed to have been “pacified.” One by one, the Apache bands were subdued as the US military moved relentlessly west. Treaties relocated the Jicarilla and Mescalero onto reservations, but occasional outbreaks occurred. After they made peace, some of the Lipan served as army scouts, as did Apache from other groups.

Historical evidence suggests that certain hostilities were prolonged by a clandestine group known as the “Tucson Ring” or “Indian Ring.” During this period, supplying troops engaged in campaigns against the Apache was the most profitable enterprise available to White settlers in Arizona. To the west, the Mimbreños Apache of the Chiricahua led by Mangas Coloradas clashed openly with the Americans over matters of justice and harassment by settlers. Cochise, another Chiricahua leader, was provoked into war by the treachery of military authorities involving a White boy who had been captured by a different Apache group.

The peace sought by a band of Arivaipa Apache people led by Eskiminzin was broken by an attack on their farming settlement when 125 sleeping men, women, and children at Camp Grant were killed by a mob of civilians from Tucson, who had taken advantage of the absence of the fort’s main garrison. Among the last Chiricahua holdouts were the famous Geronimo and Naiche, the last hereditary chief of the Chiricahua. More effective fighting on foot in the rugged hills of their familiar country in both Mexico and the United States, these Apache managed to fight and elude army troops for years, surrendering only when they could no longer escape the Apache scouts who used to hunt them.

Following their military defeat, various groups of Apache were settled on reservations in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. The Fort Apache and San Carlos reservations in Arizona were established jointly in 1871 for Arivaipa (Nnēē), Chiricahua, Coyotero, Mimbreño (Tchihende), Mogollon, Puraleno, and Tsiltaden Apache. This reservation was partitioned in 1897. Also in Arizona are the Fort McDowell, Tonto Apache, and Yavapai Apache reservations. The Jicarilla and Mescalero are both federally recognized Apache with reservations in New Mexico. The Mescalero Apache Reservation is in southern central New Mexico, and the Jicarilla Apache Reservation is in northern central New Mexico, extending northward into Colorado. In Oklahoma, there is the Fort Sill Apache Reservation.

Modern Apache

Far from being vanishing Americans, the Apache had grown in population to over 191,000 by the mid-2020s, according to the American Community Survey; over 73,000 of these identified as Apache alone, while the rest claimed mixed heritage. Most Apache live on reservations. Some groups were fortunate in the availability of natural resources; others continued to struggle at subsistence-level poverty and relied on government assistance programs designed to help them with their specific needs.

The Jicarilla Apache Tribe is a member of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT), founded in 1975; it obtains income from the production of coal, natural gas, oil, and geothermal energy.

The San Carlos Apache Tribe is governed by a Tribal Council of elected officials serving four-year terms. The population of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation is about 15,000 people. Located approximately 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of Phoenix, Arizona, the reservation has three distinct terrains: desert highlands, mountain ridges covered in grass and trees, and forested mountains abundant in wild game. The tribe has adopted an Integrated Resources Management Plan to exploit a stable economy. Timber, recreation and wildlife, agriculture, and ranching bring in revenue for the tribe and are being actively developed.

The White Mountain Apache Tribe, whose reservation is contiguous with the San Carlos, is also governed by a Tribal Council. They, too, benefit from the availability of exploitable natural resources, including an 800,000-acre (323,748 hectares) ponderosa pine forest that supports the Fort Apache Timber Company. The tribe operates a ski resort, which boasts the best ski runs in the southwestern United States and provides scenic campgrounds. Apache Enterprises operates businesses such as gas stations and restaurants throughout the reservation.

The Tonto Apache of Arizona are among the smallest groups of Apache, and they are also governed by a Tribal Council. Their reservation has the smallest land base of any in Arizona, and more space is needed for housing and other development. The tribe operates the Mazatzal Casino and sells baskets and beadwork.

The Yavapai-Apache Nation is located in the Verde Valley of central Arizona, with its government based in Camp Verde. The reservation spreads across several noncontiguous parcels, equivalent to 2.9 square miles (7.5 square kilometres). In 2024, the US Forest Service completed a land exchange with the Yavapai-Apache Nation in Arizona, transferring about five square miles (eight square kilometers) of national forest to the tribe in return for six parcels of private land. This transaction nearly doubled the reservation's size. Tribal leaders noted that the agreement restored access to ancestral territory and created new possibilities for housing, conservation, and economic development.


Bibliography

"American Community Survey Data." US Census Bureau, 2025, www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/data.html. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

Baldwin, Gordon C. The Apache Indians: Raiders of the Southwest. Four Winds Press, 1978.

Carlisle, Jeffrey D. "Apache Indians." Texas State Historical Association, 29 Sept. 2020, www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/apache-indians. Accessed 10 Dec. 2024.

Clark, Blue. Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide. U of Oklahoma P, 2009.

Conrad, Paul. The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival. U of Pennsylvania P, 2021.

Davisson, Lori, et al. Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout: White Mountain and Cibecue Apache History through 1881. U of Arizona P, 2016.

Haley, James L. Apaches: A History and Culture Portrait. Doubleday, 1981.

100 Questions, 500 Nations: A Guide to Native America. Native American Journalists Association, 2014.

Terrell, John Upton. Apache Chronicle. World Publishing, 1972.

Terrell, John Upton. The Plains Apache. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975.

"US Forest Managers Finalize Land Exchange with Native American Tribe in Arizona." AP News, 29 Oct. 2024, apnews.com/article/arizona-native-american-land-exchange-yavapai-apache-aceac6c472e0b712c386ab93a3e6d2e0. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

Velarde Tiller, et al. The Jicarilla Apache of Dulce. Arcadia Publishing, 2012.

Worcester, Donald E. The Apaches: Eagles of the Southwest. U of Oklahoma P, 1979.

The Yavapai-Apache Nation. "A Brief History of the Yavapai-Apache Nation and Its Lands." Yavapai-Apache Land Exchange, Jan. 2024, yavapai-apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024_01_12-Brief-History-of-YAN.pdf. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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  • CULTURE AREA: Southwest
  • LANGUAGE GROUP: Athapaskan
  • PRIMARY LOCATION: Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma
  • POPULATION SIZE: per 2023-25 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
    • Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma: 188,120
    • Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona: 15,342
    • San Carlos Apache Reservation: 10,552
    • Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma Caddo-Wichita-Delaware joint-use: 9,240
    • Jicarilla Apache Nation of New Mexico: 3,176
    • Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona: 909
    • Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona: 103

The Apache people are part of the Athapaskan linguistic group, believed to be the last group to have crossed over to North America from Asia. Most of the Athapaskan speakers spread out into northern Canada and down the Pacific coast, but ancestors of the Apache pursued a more interior route, probably moving south along the eastern flank of the Rocky Mountains. At some point, the group that would become the Navajo split off, although retaining enough linguistic similarity to enable Navajo and Apache speakers to converse. The Apache people spread out in the Southwest, inhabiting primarily the areas now known as Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and northern Mexico. They were driven west from the southern Plains in the eighteenth century by the Comanche.

Traditional Culture

The Apache called themselves “Tin-ne-áh,” or “the people,” as many Indigenous American groups did in their own languages. The origin of the name Apache is widely disputed but is agreed to have been given to them by their enemies. The Apache separated into two broad groups, Western and Eastern. The Eastern Apache were the Plains groups, the Jicarilla and the Lipan, whose culture showed the influence of contact with other Plains tribes. To the west were three main divisions: the Mescalero, the Chiricahua, and the Western Apache. Five major groups made up the Western Apache. The White Mountain, which had a Western and an Eastern band—often called Coyotero—held the largest territory. The remaining four Western groups were the San Carlos or Gileño, Cibicue, and the Southern and Northern Tonto peoples. These bands were further subdivided into smaller, extended family groups that supported their highly mobile existence, each designated by its own particular name, often associated with a favorite haunt. Defining early Apache bands is made difficult by the Spanish practice of naming a band for the location where they were encountered, or after a powerful chief.

Life in the deserts of the Southwest was harsh, and the Apache way of life prepared its members for survival with a rich and meaningful culture. Folktales involving coyote and other animal spirits illustrated proper as well as improper behavior and its consequences. Spirituality was inherent in every aspect of life, and great care was taken to observe rituals and taboos. The number four was important, and the east was favored as the most holy direction.

Although bands were small and children were valued highly, a crying baby could betray the entire group to enemy extinction. Thus, from early infancy, the Apache child was trained in self-control. The ability to remain motionless and to be quiet for long periods of time, a skill learned in the cradleboard, served the grown warrior well as he hunted or waited in ambush for an enemy.

The most important time in an Apache child’s life occurred at puberty. For girls, this was marked by the onset of menses and celebrated by a puberty ceremony that lasted four days, involving blessings with sacred pollen and culminating in the girl’s run to the east. During the four days, the girl assumed the identity of White Painted Woman, a supernatural figure of the Apache creation myth. An Apache boy was inducted into manhood by serving an apprenticeship to raiding warriors. The novice was required to observe certain taboos and carry special equipment on four raids, and was required to perform camp tasks such as gathering wood and cooking for the warriors.

Adult Apache men and women had clear, gender-defined tasks. Women were responsible for gathering and processing wild foods, cooking what they gathered as well as any meat brought in by the men and boys, and the manufacture of all necessary camp equipment, clothing, and personal effects—except weapons. Women also constructed the family dwelling. Although some of the Plains Apache used tipis, camps were usually composed of the brush-covered wickiups, easy to construct and then abandon. A man’s primary task while in camp was to make weaponry, and arrow-making took up most of his time. His other responsibilities included hunting and raiding or war. A married man also became an economic contributor to his wife’s family.

Contact and Resistance

The earliest contact the Apache people had with European explorers is believed to have occurred in the sixteenth century. The Spanish were pushing north from New Spain in modern-day Mexico, and several parties encountered bands whose description matched that of Apache. Raiding for supplies was an important part of Apache life, leading to inevitable conflict with Europeans. The earliest known violence involved Gaspar Castano de Sosa, whose party set out for adventure and was raided by a band of Apache, who captured some stock and killed an Indigenous man among Castano’s party. Men were sent to punish the raiders; they killed and captured several of the raiding party.

As colonization progressed, Spanish soldiers were accompanied by Catholic priests eager to convert any subdued Indigenous peoples. The converts were used as ready labor, often enslaved, to build missions and rancherias in the vast new country of the Southwest. In the seventeenth century, the Pueblo Revolt on the northeastern frontier sent the Spanish south, with Eastern Apache attacking the Spaniards as they fled. The Spanish returned, however, and by 1697, once again occupied the region.

When the Mexicans won their freedom from Spain in 1824, they also abandoned peace agreements made with various Apache groups. Raiding, which had never stopped, increased as the new government could not field any force to match the Apache. Trouble on the Santa Fe Trail, which was established in 1822, led to a bounty being placed on Apache scalps. By the time the area passed into United States control after the Mexican-American War, the Apache people had a reputation as fearsome enemies.

Apache and American relations were frustrating for both sides. The Apache people found that farming—which the United States government expected them to embrace as their new livelihood—did not always provide for their families, and they could not understand why the Americans opposed their continued raids into Mexico for supplies. Treaties made by the United States government were often broken for political expediency. Apache leaders were lured with promises of peace, then arrested and sometimes killed. Army officers would spend years establishing peaceful relations with key Apache leaders, only to see their efforts destroyed by a single party of drunken vigilantes bent on exterminating any Apache they encountered—generally women and children.

The course of the Apache Wars is a tangled story of capitulation, betrayal, and outbreaks of tribes believed to have been “pacified.” One by one, the Apache bands were subdued as the US military moved relentlessly west. Treaties relocated the Jicarilla and Mescalero onto reservations, but occasional outbreaks occurred. After they made peace, some of the Lipan served as army scouts, as did Apache from other groups.

Historical evidence suggests that certain hostilities were prolonged by a clandestine group known as the “Tucson Ring” or “Indian Ring.” During this period, supplying troops engaged in campaigns against the Apache was the most profitable enterprise available to White settlers in Arizona. To the west, the Mimbreños Apache of the Chiricahua led by Mangas Coloradas clashed openly with the Americans over matters of justice and harassment by settlers. Cochise, another Chiricahua leader, was provoked into war by the treachery of military authorities involving a White boy who had been captured by a different Apache group.

The peace sought by a band of Arivaipa Apache people led by Eskiminzin was broken by an attack on their farming settlement when 125 sleeping men, women, and children at Camp Grant were killed by a mob of civilians from Tucson, who had taken advantage of the absence of the fort’s main garrison. Among the last Chiricahua holdouts were the famous Geronimo and Naiche, the last hereditary chief of the Chiricahua. More effective fighting on foot in the rugged hills of their familiar country in both Mexico and the United States, these Apache managed to fight and elude army troops for years, surrendering only when they could no longer escape the Apache scouts who used to hunt them.

Following their military defeat, various groups of Apache were settled on reservations in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. The Fort Apache and San Carlos reservations in Arizona were established jointly in 1871 for Arivaipa (Nnēē), Chiricahua, Coyotero, Mimbreño (Tchihende), Mogollon, Puraleno, and Tsiltaden Apache. This reservation was partitioned in 1897. Also in Arizona are the Fort McDowell, Tonto Apache, and Yavapai Apache reservations. The Jicarilla and Mescalero are both federally recognized Apache with reservations in New Mexico. The Mescalero Apache Reservation is in southern central New Mexico, and the Jicarilla Apache Reservation is in northern central New Mexico, extending northward into Colorado. In Oklahoma, there is the Fort Sill Apache Reservation.

Modern Apache

Far from being vanishing Americans, the Apache had grown in population to over 191,000 by the mid-2020s, according to the American Community Survey; over 73,000 of these identified as Apache alone, while the rest claimed mixed heritage. Most Apache live on reservations. Some groups were fortunate in the availability of natural resources; others continued to struggle at subsistence-level poverty and relied on government assistance programs designed to help them with their specific needs.

The Jicarilla Apache Tribe is a member of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT), founded in 1975; it obtains income from the production of coal, natural gas, oil, and geothermal energy.

The San Carlos Apache Tribe is governed by a Tribal Council of elected officials serving four-year terms. The population of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation is about 15,000 people. Located approximately 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of Phoenix, Arizona, the reservation has three distinct terrains: desert highlands, mountain ridges covered in grass and trees, and forested mountains abundant in wild game. The tribe has adopted an Integrated Resources Management Plan to exploit a stable economy. Timber, recreation and wildlife, agriculture, and ranching bring in revenue for the tribe and are being actively developed.

The White Mountain Apache Tribe, whose reservation is contiguous with the San Carlos, is also governed by a Tribal Council. They, too, benefit from the availability of exploitable natural resources, including an 800,000-acre (323,748 hectares) ponderosa pine forest that supports the Fort Apache Timber Company. The tribe operates a ski resort, which boasts the best ski runs in the southwestern United States and provides scenic campgrounds. Apache Enterprises operates businesses such as gas stations and restaurants throughout the reservation.

The Tonto Apache of Arizona are among the smallest groups of Apache, and they are also governed by a Tribal Council. Their reservation has the smallest land base of any in Arizona, and more space is needed for housing and other development. The tribe operates the Mazatzal Casino and sells baskets and beadwork.

The Yavapai-Apache Nation is located in the Verde Valley of central Arizona, with its government based in Camp Verde. The reservation spreads across several noncontiguous parcels, equivalent to 2.9 square miles (7.5 square kilometres). In 2024, the US Forest Service completed a land exchange with the Yavapai-Apache Nation in Arizona, transferring about five square miles (eight square kilometers) of national forest to the tribe in return for six parcels of private land. This transaction nearly doubled the reservation's size. Tribal leaders noted that the agreement restored access to ancestral territory and created new possibilities for housing, conservation, and economic development.


Bibliography

"American Community Survey Data." US Census Bureau, 2025, www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/data.html. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

Baldwin, Gordon C. The Apache Indians: Raiders of the Southwest. Four Winds Press, 1978.

Carlisle, Jeffrey D. "Apache Indians." Texas State Historical Association, 29 Sept. 2020, www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/apache-indians. Accessed 10 Dec. 2024.

Clark, Blue. Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide. U of Oklahoma P, 2009.

Conrad, Paul. The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival. U of Pennsylvania P, 2021.

Davisson, Lori, et al. Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout: White Mountain and Cibecue Apache History through 1881. U of Arizona P, 2016.

Haley, James L. Apaches: A History and Culture Portrait. Doubleday, 1981.

100 Questions, 500 Nations: A Guide to Native America. Native American Journalists Association, 2014.

Terrell, John Upton. Apache Chronicle. World Publishing, 1972.

Terrell, John Upton. The Plains Apache. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975.

"US Forest Managers Finalize Land Exchange with Native American Tribe in Arizona." AP News, 29 Oct. 2024, apnews.com/article/arizona-native-american-land-exchange-yavapai-apache-aceac6c472e0b712c386ab93a3e6d2e0. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

Velarde Tiller, et al. The Jicarilla Apache of Dulce. Arcadia Publishing, 2012.

Worcester, Donald E. The Apaches: Eagles of the Southwest. U of Oklahoma P, 1979.

The Yavapai-Apache Nation. "A Brief History of the Yavapai-Apache Nation and Its Lands." Yavapai-Apache Land Exchange, Jan. 2024, yavapai-apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024_01_12-Brief-History-of-YAN.pdf. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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