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The Apache tribes fought the invading Spanish and Mexican peoples for centuries. The first Apache raids on Sonora appear to have taken place during the late 17th century. In 19th-century confrontations during the American Indian Wars, the U.S. Army found the Apache to be fierce warriors and skillful strategists. Contemporary tribes.
The Apache are an Indigenous North American people who, under such leaders as Cochise, Mangas Coloradas, Geronimo, and Victorio, figured largely in the history of the Southwest during the latter half of the 19th century.
By the early 17th century the Navajo and the Jicarilla, Lipan, and Western Apache had begun to engage in a relatively settled way of life, farming indigenous crops; after the advent of Spanish colonization, they incorporated new products such as sheep and cattle into their economies.
Apache, North American Indians of the southwestern U.S. Their name comes from a Zuñi word meaning “enemy.” Most Apache live on five reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. Culturally, the Apache are divided into Eastern Apache, which include the Mescalero, Jicarilla, Chiricahua, and Lipan, and Western Apache, which include the Cibecue.
The Western Apache tribes reside in east and central Arizona. Their language is southern Athabaskan in origin. Linguistic and archaeological evidence suggest that they arrived in the Southwest between 1000 and 1500 A.D., although little is known about their migrations.
Traveling south from Canada hundreds of years ago, the Nde (Apache) people joined the Sonoran Desert region of the Pimería Alta around 1200 AD according to most historians and linguists. The Nde people refer to themselves as Nde, Inde, Tinde, or Tinneh, which means, “The people.”
Apache were originally of the same group but considers them two distinct peoples, thus suggesting that the two groups had been sep-arated for many years. Western Apache mythology also refers to prehistoric ruins on the Gila River that be-longed to hostile people who raided them and who were then living in the mountains to the north.
