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The Chiricahua are an Athapaskan-speaking Native American group whose traditional homeland was located in present-day southeastern Arizona, southern New Mexico, southwestern Texas, and northern Mexico. Originally nomadic, the Chiricahua subsistence pattern was based on hunting and the gathering of wild food plants, with only a minor amount of agriculture being practiced. During the second half of the nineteenth century the Chiricahua were forced onto reservations  and other restricted sites on the Arizona-New Mexico border, then in Florida and Alabama, and finally in Oklahoma and south-central New Mexico. The Chiricahua were traditionally divided into from three to five bands, each made up of ten to thirty extended families.

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The ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache

An Apache life-way

Chiricahua Apache

Chiricahua Apaches and the assimilation movement, 1865-1886

Women of the Apache nation

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Beierle, John	Culture Summary	2012
Castetter, Edward Franklin	The ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache	1936
Opler, Morris Edward	An Apache life-way	1941
Opler, Morris Edward	Chiricahua Apache	1983
Ragsdale, John W.	Chiricahua Apaches and the assimilation movement, 1865-1886	2005
Stockel, H. Henrietta	Women of the Apache nation	1991

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