Jicarilla Apache
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Jicarilla Apache, one of several loosely organized autonomous bands of the Eastern Apache, refers to the members of the Jicarilla Apache Nation currently living in New Mexico and speaking a Southern A
Young Jicarilla Apache boy, 2009
Southwestern Defense System before the Civil War. Source:National Park Service
Cenotaph marking where the body of a killed dragoon was found
Portrait of a Jicarilla man, 1904
Mescalero
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Mescalero or Mescalero Apache is an Apache tribe of Southern Athabaskan–speaking Native Americans. The tribe is federally recognized as the Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Apache Reservation,
Jicarilla Apache
…Mexican Spanish meaning "little basket", referring to the small sealed baskets they used as drinking vessels. To neighboring Apache bands, such as the Mescalero and Lipan, they were known as Kinya-Inde ("People who live in fixed houses"). The Jicarilla called themselves also Haisndayin, translated as "people…
Two Mescalero women, with tipis and ramada (to the left) est. c. 1900
Mescalero Apache Tribal Administrative Offices and Community Center in Mescalero, New Mexico
Mescalero painted boy; photo entitled Long Walk of the Navajo. After being defeated by United States military forces, most of the Navajo were marched over 350-mile (560 km) during the winter of 1864 and incarcerated at Bosque Redondo, New Mexico with the Mescalero Apache.
Gorgonia, Sierrablanca Mescalero medicine man