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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 739 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LIPAN , a tribe of See also:

North See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Athabascan stock. Their former range was central See also:

TEXAS

Texas. Later they were driven into See also:

Mexico. They were pure nomads, lived entirely by See also:

HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

hunting, and were perhaps the most daring of the Texas Indians. A few survivors were brought back from Mexico in 1905 and placed on a See also:

RESERVATION (Lat. reservare, to keep back)

reservation in New Mexico.

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