What Is: Apacheria
Some Native tribes were powerful enough to stake their claims to their hunting and home range such that trespassers knew they were risking their lives to pass through it. The Comanche protected Comancheria, in what is now Texas and New Mexico. Likewise, the various Apache bands staked out their own territory, from north of the Arkansas River through the northern border states of Mexico, from central Texas into what is now New Mexico and Arizona.
Like most tribes, the Apache were not a centralized entity, but a collection of nomadic bands who depended primarily on hunting and raiding for their subsistence. A hunting range of adequate size to provide game was absolutely essential to their existence. Warriors spent a great deal of time and energy patrolling their band's territory and fending off trespassers, whether from other tribes or European trappers, traders and settlers. The most effective Apache bands were the Plains Apache or Kiowa-Apache, whose portion of Apacheria included the area south of the Arkansas River in Kansas and Colorado, into eastern New Mexico and through the Staked Plains and central Great Plains area of western Oklahoma and Texas. Later, during the Apache Wars, 1846-1886, the Apache bands of New Mexico and Arizona fought prospectors and settlers in their territory and staged raids deep into Mexico.
Today, various Apache tribes occupy only a fraction of what was once Apacheria.
Like most tribes, the Apache were not a centralized entity, but a collection of nomadic bands who depended primarily on hunting and raiding for their subsistence. A hunting range of adequate size to provide game was absolutely essential to their existence. Warriors spent a great deal of time and energy patrolling their band's territory and fending off trespassers, whether from other tribes or European trappers, traders and settlers. The most effective Apache bands were the Plains Apache or Kiowa-Apache, whose portion of Apacheria included the area south of the Arkansas River in Kansas and Colorado, into eastern New Mexico and through the Staked Plains and central Great Plains area of western Oklahoma and Texas. Later, during the Apache Wars, 1846-1886, the Apache bands of New Mexico and Arizona fought prospectors and settlers in their territory and staged raids deep into Mexico.
Today, various Apache tribes occupy only a fraction of what was once Apacheria.
I love the history of native AMERICANS! WE as whites did them so terribly wrong!
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