This article is about the geographical region known as Apacheria. For the plant genus, seeApacheria (plant).
Apachería was the term used to designate the region of the variousApachecountries. The earliest written records have it as a region extending from north of theArkansas River into what are now the northern states ofMexico and fromCentral Texas throughNew Mexico to CentralArizona.[1]
Most notable were the Apaches of theGreat Plains in the eastern area of Apachería, located:
- south of theArkansas River inKansas and easternColorado
- inEastern New Mexico
- in theLlano Estacado andCentral Great Plains of westernOklahoma andTexas, east of thePecos River and north of theEdwards Plateau.
Bibliography
edit- Cozzens, Peter (2001).Eyewitnesses to the Indian wars : 1865 - 1890. 1. The struggle for Apacheria. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books. pp. 458–480.ISBN 978-0-8117-0572-1.
- Thrapp, Dan L. (1979)The Conquest of Apacheria. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.
See also
editNotes
editReferences
edit- ^Frank D. Reeve, "The Apache Indians in Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 50 (October 1946)
- ^Hämäläinen, Pekka (2008). The Comanche Empire. Yale University Press.ISBN 978-0-300-12654-9, pp. 20–29.
- ^Texas State Historical Association, Apacheria.
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