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    explained how the Apache can look at the constellations and planets and determine what time it is, even though as the seasons change, so do the times. This was difficult for the author to understand or learn even though she spent a great deal of time at the reservation over many years. She says, 'to be a competent star watcher at Mescalero requires years of watching until the sky becomes as familiar as the back of one's own hand' (99). There are many other examples of the Apache ability to tell time

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    of the Apache The Athapaskan-talking individuals of the Southwest, whom the Spanish and the Pueblos would call Apaches, initially originated from areas well north of the Canadian fringe. They entered the fields at some point going before the Columbian voyage, most likely pursuing the developing crowds of wild ox that rose after 1200, and they assembled another economy and social structure tweaked to the necessities of the occasionally troublesome environment. From there on Apache populaces

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    The Apache are a well-known nomadic tribe that dominate Southwestern colonial America, as well as parts of Mexico. Fighting between the Native Americans and colonials have temporarily ceased. Our chief has sent me, along with a few warriors, to meet with a man named General George Washington in hopes of achieving peace between our people. Our chief describes these colonials as very close-minded, as they rarely see other cultures aside from their own, and may view us as savages. To avoid further conflict

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    The Apache Indians are a nomadic Native American tribe that mainly abided in the Southwestern states of the United States such as Arizona (Western & Chiricahua Apache), Texas (Lipan Apache), New Mexico (Chiricahua, Mescalero & Jicarilla Apache) and Oklahoma (Plains Apache.) The tribe is traditionally believed to have pioneered from Asia to North America in the early 1500’s. However, the Apache, similar to other Native American tribes, was not fully recognized and discovered until many years

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    Texas Indians In the Great Plains and Mountain Basin Regions Work Edited by: Kobe Jones and Keaton Kirk. The main Indian tribes that lived in the Great Plains and Mountain Basin region were the Tigua, Comanche, Apache, Kiowa, and Jumano. The Comanche were a fierce tribe who rivaled the Apaches and eventually ended up pushing them out of Texas. They originally lived in mountains until they acquired horses in the 1600s and became powerful and mobile, thus deciding to move southwest to find more mustangs

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    do my research paper on the Apache tribe. The Apache Indians are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, including present day Oklahoma, Texas, and reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. In the beginning of their time, the Apache Indians had migrated to the Kansas plains, where they were not accustomed to living and farming on the plains, and eventually their weakness was overtaken by the Comanche Tribe. After the Apaches were defeated and their land

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    English III 14 November 2014 Apache Culture The apache tribe is split into 6 sub-tribes. They live in the plains and the southwest. Life in the tribe was, for the most part, intense to say the least. By many Pueblos the Apache were named “The Enemy” due to their guerrilla warfare when they would raid the Pueblo villages for multiple things. Despite the fear amongst many different people, the Apache tribe was one of the most notorious Native American tribes because the Apache culture is still existent

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    I recently told an employee of mine that The Blacklist has been fun to watch through its first two episodes of its fourth season. I have always been a big fan of The Blacklist, considering it was the first show I reviewed for SpoilerTV. This may be why I am overly critical of each and every episode, however, I rarely, if ever, belittle the show (even during what I thought was an unsatisfactory and imperfect season three). I find solace in ratings, for some reason, which is why I tend to list them

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    The world view of the Navajo who had lived for many centuries on the high Colorado Plateau was one of living in balance with all of nature, as the stewards of their vast homeland which covered parts of four modern states. They had no concept of religion as being something separate from living day to day and prayed to many spirits. It was also a matriarchal society and had no single powerful leader as their pastoral lifestyle living in scattered independent family groups require no such entity.

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    The Apache Indians Essay

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    The Apaches, like most Native Americans, have no written history other than that written by white men. But the story of the Apaches did not begin in the American Southwest but in the northwestern corner of North America, the western Subarctic region of Alaska and Canada. The Apache Indians belong to the southern branch of the Athabascan group, whose languages constitute a large family, with speakers in Alaska, western Canada, and American Southwest. The fact that the Apaches originated in the western

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