Apache: The Apache Culture
When one hears the Apache, pronounces as “uh-Patchce”, people think about Chief Geronimo or of a warlike tribe. The name Apache comes from the word “apachu” which means “enemy”, it was given to this tribe of nomadic hunter by the Zuni who fear them. The Apache were feared because through their history, they would raid other tribes or villages for food.
A big part of the Apache culture is based on warfare, but like all Indian people they had a well-defined and complex society and mythology.
The Apache had different version of their native name that includes: Tineh or Tinneh, Tinde, Dini, Inde orN’de, Deman and Haisndayin witch means “the people”
Their ancestral homeland could have been located in the region of North America ,the part classified
as the Southwest Indians, but because their numerous tribes and because they were a nomadic kind of tribe ,their territories could include much of New Mexico and Arizona, the northern Mexico ,western Texas, southern Colorado western Oklahoma and southern Kansas.
Before the Europeans reached the territory of North America it was believed that various Apache people migrated to the Southwest and later to other Indians. It is probable that around the 4000’s, some scholars even theorized that it was even earlier ,more like 850, that Athapascan-speaking tribes broke off from other Athapascans, present day western Canada, and migrated south and become what we now know as Apache, other Apascans the migrated to this region were the Navajo.
The Apache were made up of various tribes and they were organized by dialects such as: in Arizona we have the San Carlos, Aravaipa, White Mountain, Northern Tonto, Southern Tonto, Cibecue, Chiricahua and Mimbreno. Chiricahua,Mimbreno Mescalero and Jicarilla in New Mexico. In Mexico there was Lipan and Mescalero an in Colorado there was Jicarila and Kiowa-Apache in Oklahoma.Later in the history of these subgroups there was intermarriages and/or were place together on reservation by Non-Indians.
A big part of the Apache culture is based on warfare, but like all Indian people they had a well-defined and complex society and mythology.
The Apache had different version of their native name that includes: Tineh or Tinneh, Tinde, Dini, Inde orN’de, Deman and Haisndayin witch means “the people”
Their ancestral homeland could have been located in the region of North America ,the part classified
as the Southwest Indians, but because their numerous tribes and because they were a nomadic kind of tribe ,their territories could include much of New Mexico and Arizona, the northern Mexico ,western Texas, southern Colorado western Oklahoma and southern Kansas.
Before the Europeans reached the territory of North America it was believed that various Apache people migrated to the Southwest and later to other Indians. It is probable that around the 4000’s, some scholars even theorized that it was even earlier ,more like 850, that Athapascan-speaking tribes broke off from other Athapascans, present day western Canada, and migrated south and become what we now know as Apache, other Apascans the migrated to this region were the Navajo.
The Apache were made up of various tribes and they were organized by dialects such as: in Arizona we have the San Carlos, Aravaipa, White Mountain, Northern Tonto, Southern Tonto, Cibecue, Chiricahua and Mimbreno. Chiricahua,Mimbreno Mescalero and Jicarilla in New Mexico. In Mexico there was Lipan and Mescalero an in Colorado there was Jicarila and Kiowa-Apache in Oklahoma.Later in the history of these subgroups there was intermarriages and/or were place together on reservation by Non-Indians.