The Apaches (it derives from the word Zuni Apachu, that means hostile; the name with which they are defined is N'de or Dineh, that he/she wants to say Men) they are six allied tribes of Indians of America, appartenenti to the group linguistic Athapaska. The Apaches Kiowa belong, that lived between the northern border of the New Mexico and the river Platte; the Apaches Lipan, of the New oriental Mexico and of the western Texas; the Apaches Jicarilla, of the New southern Mexico; the Apaches Mescalero, of the New central Mexico; the Apaches Chiricahua, of the chain mountainous Chiricahua in the southwestern Arizona; the western Apaches, in the central Arizona. Some tribes of Apache abandoned their country of origin, in western Canada, to emigrate to south toward the Arizona and the New Mexico. The Apaches were a nomadic people, hunters of bisons, collectors of wild plants. Agriculture was a little developed, but with the to spend some time they began to plant corn and melons. They lived in shelters of conic branches (wickiups) to which added often a ramada, four upright poles that sustained a branches roof, or in tepee, curtains in skins of bison. Habitually their suits were of skin of fallow deer and they brought long and loose hair, kept firm from a bandage laced around the head and the men they also wore an open skirt on the sides. Their tall mocassins, laced under the knees, they were a main point part of their attire, since the ground had covered of brambles, brushwood and cacti and them they were predominantly running of unbelievable resistance, rather than horsemen (although you/they had gotten the horses soon and they were excellent riders). it arms them to her principal it was the arc before possessing the rifles. The men chased and they raided. The women Apaches had an important role in the family life: they picked up food, firewood and water; they wove baskets with exceptional precision, some of which tied up in so hermetic way from not lasciar not to even pass between his/her spiral a needle; the babies brought in cribs to axle; you/they could possess one personnel of theirs ownership and becoming swarm of it. The religion was central part of the life of the Apaches; between the more known supernatural beings there were the ga'nses, protective spirits of the mountains, that were represented in religious rites, the ceremonies of the female puberty, practised for instance today still by the western apaches. Near the western apaches a system of relative matrilineare was in force, while other groups were recognizing the descent from both his/her parents. The Apaches were able to survive in the desert and they were for centuries good warriors, that whoever attached it invaded their earths. The first intruders were the Spaniards, that at the end of the XVI century, the Apaches pushed toward north; in this way they disturbed the commerce with the near people. In 1598, when the New Mexico became Spanish colony, the hostilities between Spaniards and Apache were turned on. The Apaches were often victims of betrayals, respected not pacts and massacres for work of the White and the Mexicans and this motivated their raids against the White. The raids of the apaches against the farmers accompanied the American movement toward the west and the acquisition of the New Mexico from the United States (1848). you/they had conducted bloody wars against the American military authorities. To the term all the Apaches had moved to the reserves. Between the last to surrender there were the Apaches Chiricahua, that continued the raids up to 1872, when their head Cochise signed an essay with the American government and was withdrawn with a small group in a reserve in Arizona and the Apaches, driven by their head legendary Geronimo (What Yawns, known also as Goyathlay), they were confined in Florida in 1886, but you/they had moved then to Alabama. The Apaches Jicarilla, whose number today amounts from 1.500 to 2.000 individuals, live in a reserve of 750.000 acrid situated on the mountains of the New northern Mexico. The Apaches White Mountain (chiamanti pure Sierras Blanca or Coyotero) they live in Arizona and New Mexico, and between them they are also there the around 6.000 individuals of the Reserve Fort Apache of the Arizona that is extended on a space of 1.600.000 acrid. In 1905 only 25 Lipans had survived, and you/they had systematized in the Reserve Apache Mescalero.
