Chiricahua Apache
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- The Chiricahua Apache spoke their native language in community gatherings to preserve their cultural heritage.
Examples
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Documentaries often feature the Chiricahua Apache to illustrate the diversity of languages among Indigenous peoples.
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In school, students learned about the Chiricahua Apache as part of the studies on Native American languages.
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As a result of their land claims, the United States created a reservation for the Chiricahua Apache, but it was later withdrawn.
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Mountains were both a defensive refuge and sacred ground to the Chiricahua Apache.
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Nevertheless, the legacy of the Chiricahua Apache persists in the borderland Southwest through names on the land.
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The transition to Mexican political authority in the early 1800s brought changes to Chiricahua Apache geography in the borderland.
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This essay assesses the historic and contemporary impact of geographical borderland changes for the Chiricahua Apache and discusses the legacy of a transformed homeland.
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Beyond environmental knowledge, mountains were central to the spiritual and belief systems of the Chiricahua Apache, as they were for other Apache groups (Stockel 2007), a centrality that reinforces attachment to place.
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Synonyms
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A language spoken by Apache people in the southwestern United States
A Native American language that Chiricahua people speak in New Mexico and Oklahoma
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'Chiricahua Apache' is a compositional proper-name phrase where the ethnonym 'Chiricahua' modifies the group/language label 'Apache', so the meaning (the Apache people or language associated with the Chiricahua) is directly derivable from the parts. This attributive naming pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Chiricahua Apache may come from the Chiricahua Mountains, the place where this Apache group lived, and Spanish people began to use the mountain name for the group. That's why Chiricahua Apache today refers to the 'people' and their 'language'.