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Once the Apache moved to the Southwest, they developed a flexible subsistence economy that included hunting and gathering wild foods, farming, and obtaining food and other items from Pueblo villages via trade, livestock hunts, and raiding.
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In the past, Apaches traded with some of the surrounding tribes for a variety of items. Individual handicrafts are still occasionally traded to local stores or sold to dealers, but for the most part the economic system on the reservations is part of the larger American cash economy.
The Apache (/ əˈpætʃi / ə-PATCH-ee) are several Southern Athabaskan language –speaking peoples of the Southwest, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico. They are linguistically related to the Navajo. They migrated from the Athabascan homelands in the north into the Southwest between 1000 and 1500 CE. [5]
Economy Subsistence and Commercial Activities . In traditional times, about 40 percent of the diet came from gathered wild plant foods, 35 percent from meat (especially deer), and 25 percent from horticulture.
Today Apachean groups are integrated into the economic systems of the United States. Many Apaches live off the reservations, but those that remain conduct farming and ranching, land management including forestry, hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities, businesses, rodeos and ceremonials.
8 maj 2018 · HISTORY. Apaches have endured severe economic and political disruptions, first by the Spanish, then by the Comanches, and later by the United States government.
The Fort Apache Recreation Enterprise, begun in 1954, has created much economic activity, including Sunrise Ski Area, which generates more than $9 million in revenue annually. In 1993, the White Mountain Apaches opened the Hon Dah (Apache for "Welcome") Casino on the Fort Apache Reservation.
