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Chiricahua are a band of Apache Native Americans, based in the Southern Plains and Southwest United States. Culturally related to other Apache peoples, Chiricahua historically shared a common area, language, customs, and intertwined family relations. At the time of European contact, they had a territory of 15 million acres (61,000 km) in Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona in the United States and in Northern Sonora and Chihuahua in Mexico.
Today Chiricahua are enrolled in two federally recognized tribes in the United States: the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, located near Apache, Oklahoma with a reservation in Los Lunas, New Mexico, and the Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation near Ruidoso, New Mexico the San Carlos Apache Tribe, Arizona does have Chiricahua Apache people there also.
Chiricahua can refer to:
- Chiricahua, group of Apache bands
- Chiricahua language, their language
- Chiricahua National Monument
- Chiricahua Mountains
- UV-20 Chiricahua, a U.S. Army aircraft
Usage examples of "chiricahua".
Straight across you see the black Chiricahua Mountains, and away down to the south the Guadalupe Mountains.
Yet that black, bold range of Chiricahua Mountains was distant a long day's journey for even a hard-riding cowboy.
She had taken two wonderful trips down into the desert–one trip to Chiricahua, and from there across the waste of sand and rock and alkali and cactus to the Mexican borderline.
Finally a letter came from a friend of Nels's in Chiricahua saying that Stewart had been hurt in a brawl there.
And when it stopped in the wide, dusty street of Chiricahua Nels gladly tumbled out.
If a single word could have saved Stewart from sinking his splendid manhood into the brute she had recoiled from at Chiricahua, she would not have spoken it.
The powers that be feel the army will have a better handle on the really treacherous Mescalero Apache if they move 'em over to study war no more with their Chiricahua allies at San Carlos, under tighter rein from Fort Apache just next door.
They don't see why we divide 'em and dub 'em Navaho, Mescalero, Chiricahua, and such, by the way.
People who have run away from San Carlos have told us about the fine place our BIA chose for our Chiricahua cousins near Fort Apache.
Nobody tracks better than Papigo, as some of your Chiricahua cousins learned to their sorrow a spell back.
But when he allowed he'd heard that the Chiji, as they called Chiricahua, worshipped White-Painted Woman instead of the Navahos' Changing Woman, the condemned witch laughed and told him his kind wrote things down silly.
The Chiricahua are as likely as your own Jicarilla to jump their reserve and give the army an excuse to scratch 'em off the government dole.
The ranch is on a part of the old Chiricahua reservation that was once the home and hunting grounds of the tribe of Chiricahua Apaches, the most bold and warlike of all the southwest Indians.
From there they turned west, crossed the San Simon valley and disappeared in the Chiricahua mountains.
Down in the southwest the Hopi and Navaho, the Mescalero and San Carlos, the Jicarilla, the White Mountain and Chiricahua all clung to the vestiges of their ancient cultures, waiting until they could once more become strong.