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What does nantan mean in apache?
Nantan in Apache means Chief or Spokesman (tribal representative). The apachean people had 7 different languages and distinct cultures where the only references commonly found refer to Cochise, Mangas Coloradas, Geronimo, Lupan amongst others as Nantans. All these chiefs were Chiricahua Apaches so its most likely a Chiricahua Apachean word, but not necessarily exclusive to this tribe.
Who feared the Aztec's?
The Aztecs where feared by the Spanish when the Spanish had arrived. This is because they didn't have reinforcements. Also the Chichimec tribes and the Apachean Tribes. NOTE: All of the minor tribes feared them because they didn't have power or good military.
Were the apache an independent tribe?
No, there were different branches or clans of Apaches. Mescalero and Cherikowa being two of them.The Apache peoples share a geographic origin, in what is now the southwestern U.S.; they share many cultural traditions; and they share a loosely related group of similar languages. Their basic social structure was family-grouped clans, but many of the clans were loosely affiliated with other clans to forms groups that might be considered tribes. An Apachean tribe did not share the powerful social and political ties of the plains tribes to the north. There was most certainly no such thing as one great tribe encompassing all of the Apache peoples.Because the Apaches kept themselves isolated from Europeans in their challenging southwestern terrain, scientists are missing a lot of details about the early clan/tribe relationships. We are left to guess about many of the intriguing details of the early Apachean culture and languages. When the U.S. Army conquered the Apaches in the late 1800's and sent them to reservations, there was vast cross-cultural mixing that made it almost impossible to accurately reconstruct knowledge of the pre-reservation Apaches. Even the languages changed, and new crosscut dialects immediately appeared.While there is no widespread scientific agreement on the fine details, it is not unreasonable to suggest that there were 3 Apachean language dialects: White Mountain, San Carlos, and Tonto (related to Navajo language). It is not unreasonable to suggest that there were approximately 6 major social or roughly "tribal" groupings: Western Apache, Plains Apache, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, and Lipans. The Navajo were a 7th Apachean group, but today they are considered a separate tribe.
What are the Languages of the US?
In the u.s there are several languages spoken the more dominant ones are English, Spanish, and French. otherwise there's Laos, Cambodian, German, Creole, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, and some native Indian languages such as Aha Punana Leo, and apachean. then there's different ways to speak English there's proper, there's English with western, eastern, northern, and southern slang, properly improper and country. oh and sign language.
What region did the Navajo Indians come from?
The archaeological record and Navajo traditional belief in the Dine' Bahane' are approximately the same. The Navajo say they emerged from the world below in the Dine'tah area which is in the upper San Juan river basin in north western New Mexico State about 1100 years ago. The actual emergence place is said to be a lake in the San Juan mountains or at the confluence of the San Juan and Animas rivers. The four sacred mountains mark the boundaries of the traditional lands. Archaeologists find the earliest evidence of a people who are different from other Apachean groups, live in hogans and grow corn in the same area in the San Juan basin starting between 1100 and 900 years ago. In essence their ethno-genisis was a blending of Apachean culture with some aspects of Pueblo people in this area. Today the Navajo Nation is 300,000 enrolled members on 27,000 sq miles between the same four sacred mountains including some of the San Juan basin.
What did the Indians come from?
The archaeological record and Navajo traditional belief in the Dine' Bahane' are approximately the same. The Navajo say they emerged from the world below in the Dine'tah area which is in the upper San Juan river basin in north western New Mexico State about 1100 years ago. The actual emergence place is said to be a lake in the San Juan mountains or at the confluence of the San Juan and Animas rivers. The four sacred mountains mark the boundaries of the traditional lands. Archaeologists find the earliest evidence of a people who are different from other Apachean groups, live in hogans and grow corn in the same area in the San Juan basin starting between 1100 and 900 years ago. In essence their ethno-genisis was a blending of Apachean culture with some aspects of Pueblo people in this area. Today the Navajo Nation is 300,000 enrolled members on 27,000 sq miles between the same four sacred mountains including some of the San Juan basin.
What region did the Indians come from?
The archaeological record and Navajo traditional belief in the Dine' Bahane' are approximately the same. The Navajo say they emerged from the world below in the Dine'tah area which is in the upper San Juan river basin in north western New Mexico State about 1100 years ago. The actual emergence place is said to be a lake in the San Juan mountains or at the confluence of the San Juan and Animas rivers. The four sacred mountains mark the boundaries of the traditional lands. Archaeologists find the earliest evidence of a people who are different from other Apachean groups, live in hogans and grow corn in the same area in the San Juan basin starting between 1100 and 900 years ago. In essence their ethno-genisis was a blending of Apachean culture with some aspects of Pueblo people in this area. Today the Navajo Nation is 300,000 enrolled members on 27,000 sq miles between the same four sacred mountains including some of the San Juan basin.
When was the Navajo Indians first established?
The modern US entity known as the Navajo Reservation was started in a much smaller land area with the Treaty of 1868 when the Navajo people were allowed to return home from imprisonment in Bosque Redondo. The people known as Navajo probably differentiated themselves from other Apachean groups around 9D0-1100 AD. Both traditional stories of emergence fro the world before and modern archeology agree with this approximate date.
Does the Apache tribe use the word dine for the people also?
The Apache and Navajo both belong to the Southern Athabaskan Language Family. This does not mean this was one language, but more like a root language like Latin is for French, Spanish, Italian, Etc.They don't both use the exact word Diné. This is a Navajo word. There are six different Apache languages. In western Apache it is Ndee. The Mescalero Apache call themselves: Inday. The Lipan Apache say: Ndé.The Southern Athabaskan Languages or "Apachean" is spoken by Jicarillo Apache, Mescalero Apache, Navajo, Lipan Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and by some Kiowa, and others.All these words indeed mean "The People."
Are the Sami people - also known as Laplanders - related to the Inuit people of northern Canada?
yes they are the same No, not hardly! Although the Inuit (Eskimo), and Sami occupy lands of the Arctic/Sub-Arctic Rim they are not the same people. The Sami's mtDNA haplogroups (U5b, V, and Z) distribution overwhelmingly represents a subset of the European gene-pool with some Eurasian influences which is common amongst Northeastern Europeans. The Inuit mtDNA haplogroup (A) distribution overwhelmingly represents a subset of the Asian/Siberian gene-pool and is almost nonexistent among the non-Athapaskan-speaking peoples in Southwestern North America. It has a high frequency amongst all the Apachean peoples such as the Western Apache, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan, Plains Apache (formerly Kiowa-Apache), and the closely related Navajo (Diné or Naabeehó).
Did the Navajo hunt farm of both?
Both. The earliest oral history and archeology of the Navajo show them growing corn beans and squash and living in hogans in widely separated homesteads. It is thought that their ancestors learned this from the neighboring Pueblean peoples about 1110 -900 years ago. Before that they lived more like other western Apachean groups. They also hunted for wild game. It is not thought they raised turkeys as the Pueblo groups did. Soon after the Spanish brought sheep, horses and cattle in the 1540s they raised sheep. Sheep are now very culturally important, perhaps as much as corn. Cattle were never as popular. Other crops such as peaches, chilies, and melons came with in the 16th century as well and became important crops. Today the Navajo Nation has some of the largest irrigated farms in the US and on a smaller scale, some people still raise sheep, goats and corn, beans and squash.
Was the apache tribe located in Arizona or New Mexico?
The Apache tribe are located in Arizona, New Mexico AND Oklahoma and Texas. The most of the ones ( except the Plains Apache) in Oklahoma were forced to move there by the US government and army. The Apache reservations are in Arizona and New Mexico. Some Apache have moved to large metropolitan areas. Some Apacheans were employed in migrant farm labor and relocated to the central agricultural regions of Southern California. The federally recognized tribes are: Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Arizona, Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico, Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico, San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona, Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona, White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona, Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona. The Chiricahua were divided into two groups after they were released from being prisoners of war. Most are at the Mescalero Reservation. The Lipan Apache are also there. The other Chiricahua are enrolled in the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma. The Plains Apache are located in Oklahoma, headquartered around Anadarko, and are federally recognized as the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma. The Navajo are not considered Apache but because they have related languages they are as a group called Apachean, During first contact they lived in eastern Arizona, northern Mexico, New Mexico, west and southwest Texas, and southern Colorado and Kansas The Apachean groups did not have much political or cultural unity. They spoke seven related languages. They had distinct and competitive with each other. cultures. Within each group of the Apache they lived in many independent bands. For example the Western Apache lived in at least 20 distinct bands. The Mescalero about 10 each with there own territory and traditions.
