Jicarilla Apache refers to an Apache people currently living in New Mexico and speak a Southern Athabaskan language. Southern Athabaskan (also Apachean) is a subfamily of Athabaskan languages spoken primarily in the North American Southwest (including Arizona The term jicarilla comes from Mexican Spanish meaning 'little basket'. Mexican Spanish ( español mexicano in Spanish is the Spanish language as it is spoken in Mexico.
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Geography
The Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation is located within two northern New Mexico counties:
The reservation has a land area of 3,532. New Mexico ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States of America. Rio Arriba County is a County located in the US state of New Mexico. Sandoval County is a County located in the US state of New Mexico. 864 km² (1,364. 046 sq mi) and had a population of 2,755 as of the 2000 census. Its only significant community is Dulce, which comprises over 95 percent of the reservation's population, near the extreme north end. Dulce ( Jicarilla: Lóosi, ˈdʌlsi or occasionally /ˈduːsi/ is a Census-designated place (CDP in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
Culture
See also
External links
- Jicarilla Apache Nation website
- Jicarilla Apache Culture (Jicarilla Apache Cultural Affairs Office)
- Jicarilla Apache Tribe (New Mexico's Blue Book On-Line)
- Jicarilla Apache: Tinde
- Myths of the Jicarilla Apache (University of Virginia Electronic Text Center)
- The Jicarilla Genesis (University of Virginia Electronic Text Center)
- An Apache Medicine Dance (University of Virginia Electronic Text Center)
- Jicarilla Texts (Internet Sacred Text Archive)
- Jicarilla Apache Nation (New Mexico Magazine)
- Jicarilla Apache Nation History (Apache Nugget Corporation)
- Early Jicarilla Apache Nation Photos (Apache Nugget Corporation)
- Jicarilla Apache Pottery/Walking Spirit Pottery (Sample of Micaceous Clay Pottery)
References
- Jicarilla Reservation, New Mexico United States Census Bureau
Bibliography
- Goddard, Pliny E. Jicarilla (called Abáachi mizaa in Jicarilla is an Eastern Southern Athabaskan language spoken by the Jicarilla Apache. Battle of Cieneguilla (pronounced sienna-GEE-ya English small swamp was an engagement fought between a group of Jicarilla Apaches and the U Mescalero (or Mescalero Apache) is a Native American tribe of Southern Athabaskan heritage currently living on the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation This is a list of Indian reservations and other tribal homelands in the United States. (1911). Jicarilla Apache texts. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History (Vol. 8). New York: The American Museum of Natural History.
- Opler, Morris. (1941). A Jicarilla expedition and scalp dance. (Narrated by Alasco Tisnado).
- Opler, Morris. (1942). Myths and tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians.
- Opler, Morris. (1947). Mythology and folk belief in the maintenance of Jicarilla Apache tribal endogamy.
- Phone, Wilma; & Torivio, Patricia. (1981). Jicarilla mizaa medaóołkai dáłáéé. Albuquerque: Native American Materials Development Center.
- Phone, Wilhelmina; Olson, Maureen; & Martinez, Matilda. (2007). Dictionary of Jicarilla Apache: Abáachi Mizaa Iłkee' Siijai. Axelrod, Melissa; Gómez de García, Jule; Lachler, Jordan; & Burke, Sean M. (Eds. Sean Michael Burke is a Perl programmer with a background in linguistics ). UNM Press. ISBN 0826340784
- Tuttle, Siri G. ; & Sandoval, Merton. (2002). Jicarilla Apache. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 32, 105-112.
- Wilson, Alan, & Vigil Martine, Rita. (1996). Apache (Jicarilla). Guilford, CT: Audio-Forum. ISBN 0-88432-903-8. (Includes book and cassette recording).
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