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Apache

DEFINITIONS OF: Apache

1

n any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico); fought a losing battle from 1861 to 1886 with the United States and were resettled in Oklahoma

Examples:
Cochise
Apache leader of the resistance to United States troops in Arizona (1812-1874)
Geronimo
Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909)
Type of:
Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan
a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska

n the language of the Apache

Types:
Chiricahua Apache
an Apache language
San Carlos Apache
an Apache language
Type of:
Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Athapaskan language
a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)
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