Apacheria

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Apacheria was the term used to designate the area inhabited by the Apache people. The earliest written records have it as a region extending from north of the Arkansas River into what are now the northern states of Mexico and from Central Texas to Central Arizona.[1]

In the early eighteenth century, the Comanche expanded out of present day Wyoming into the lands that became known as Comancheria displacing other tribes. Most notable were the Apaches of the plains in the eastern part of Apacheria, in eastern Colorado and Kansas south of the Arkansas River, Eastern New Mexico, and the Llano Estacado and Great Plains of western Oklahoma and Texas east of the Pecos River and north of the Edwards Plateau. The Apache were forced to move southward and westward as a result.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Frank D. Reeve, "The Apache Indians in Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 50 (October 1946)
  2. ↑ Hämäläinen, Pekka (2008). The Comanche Empire. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12654-9, pp. 20–29.
  3. ↑ Texas State Historical Association, Apacheria.


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