Jicarilla Apache

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Jicarilla Apache refers to an Apache people currently living in New Mexico and speak a Southern Athabaskan language. The term jicarilla comes from Mexican Spanish meaning 'little basket'.

Contents 1 Geography 2 Culture 3 See also 4 External links 5 References 6 Bibliography

[edit] Geography

The Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation is located within two northern New Mexico counties:

• Rio Arriba County
• Sandoval County

The reservation has a land area of 3,532.864 km² (1,364.046 sq mi) and had a population of 2,755 as of the 2000 census. Its only significant community is Dulce, which comprises over 95 percent of the reservation's population, near the extreme north end.

[edit] Culture

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[edit] See also

• Jicarilla language
• Battle of Cieneguilla
• Mescalero
• List of Indian reservations in the United States

[edit] External links

• Jicarilla Apache Nation website
• Jicarilla Apache Culture (Jicarilla Apache Cultural Affairs Office)
• Jicarilla Apache Tribe (New Mexico's Blue Book On-Line)
• Jicarilla Apache: Tinde
• Myths of the Jicarilla Apache (University of Virginia Electronic Text Center)
• The Jicarilla Genesis (University of Virginia Electronic Text Center)
• An Apache Medicine Dance (University of Virginia Electronic Text Center)
• Jicarilla Texts (Internet Sacred Text Archive)
• Jicarilla Apache Nation (New Mexico Magazine)
• Jicarilla Apache Nation History (Apache Nugget Corporation)
• Early Jicarilla Apache Nation Photos (Apache Nugget Corporation)
• Jicarilla Apache Pottery/Walking Spirit Pottery (Sample of Micaceous Clay Pottery)

[edit] References

• Jicarilla Reservation, New Mexico United States Census Bureau

[edit] Bibliography

• Goddard, Pliny E. (1911). Jicarilla Apache texts. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History (Vol. 8). New York: The American Museum of Natural History.
• Opler, Morris. (1941). A Jicarilla expedition and scalp dance. (Narrated by Alasco Tisnado).
• Opler, Morris. (1942). Myths and tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians.
• Opler, Morris. (1947). Mythology and folk belief in the maintenance of Jicarilla Apache tribal endogamy.
• Phone, Wilma; & Torivio, Patricia. (1981). Jicarilla mizaa medaóołkai dáłáéé. Albuquerque: Native American Materials Development Center.
• Phone, Wilhelmina; Olson, Maureen; & Martinez, Matilda. (2007). Dictionary of Jicarilla Apache: Abáachi Mizaa Iłkee' Siijai. Axelrod, Melissa; Gómez de García, Jule; Lachler, Jordan; & Burke, Sean M. (Eds.). UNM Press. ISBN 0826340784
• Tuttle, Siri G.; & Sandoval, Merton. (2002). Jicarilla Apache. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 32, 105-112.
• Wilson, Alan, & Vigil Martine, Rita. (1996). Apache (Jicarilla). Guilford, CT: Audio-Forum. ISBN 0-88432-903-8. (Includes book and cassette recording).