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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 158 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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APACHE (apparently from the Zuni name, = " enemy," given to the See also:
NAVAHO, or NAVAJO
Navaho See also:
INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN
Indians) , a tribe of See also:

North See also:

AMERICAN

American Indians of See also:

ATHAPASCAN

Athapascan stock. The Apaches formerly ranged over See also:

south-eastern See also:

ARIZONA (from the Spanish-Indian Arizonac, of unknown meaning,—possibly " few springs,"-the name of an 18th-century mining camp in the Santa Cruz valley, just S. of the present border of Arizona)

Arizona and south-western See also:

Mexico. The See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief divisions of the Apaches were the Arivaipa, Chiricahua, Coyotero, Faraone Gileno, Llanero, Mescalero, Mimbreno, Mogollon, Naisha, Tchikun and Tchishi. They were a powerful and warlike tribe, constantly at enmity with the whites. The final surrender of the tribe took See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in 1886, when the Chiricahuas, the See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division involved, were deported to See also:

FLORIDA

Florida and See also:

ALABAMA

Alabama, where they underwent military imprisonment. The Apaches are now in reservations in Arizona, New Mexico and See also:

OKLAHOMA (a Choctaw Indian word meaning " red people ")

Oklahoma, and number between 5000 and 6000. For details see Handbook of American Indians, ed. F. W. See also:

HODGE, CHARLES (1797-1878)

Hodge, (See also:

Washington, 1907); also INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN.

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