Apache
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma
The Apaches belong to the Athapaskan linguistic group, believed to be the last group to have crossed over to North America from the Asiatic continent. Most of the Athapaskan speakers spread out into northern Canada and down the Pacific coast, but ancestors of the Apaches pursued a more interior route, probably moving south along the eastern flank of the Rocky Mountains. At some point, the group that would become the Navajos split off, although retaining enough linguistic similarity to enable Navajo and Apache speakers to converse. The Apaches spread out in the Southwest, inhabiting...
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