Not all Native Americans are the same. Each and every one is unique in some way. The Apache was like any other tribe that you have learned about, they had their own traditions that they followed by. Apache is pronounced "UH-PAH-CHEE" and it means enemy in the language of their neighbors Zuni. In the Apache language it means the people and pronounced NDE or NDEE. Most of the apaches resided from the southwest desserts which is most likely around Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas area (bordering Mexico). There are 13 different Apache tribes in the United States currently. According to www.higorrin.org there is five in Arizona five, in New Mexico and, three and, Oklahoma. Each one in Arizona and New Mexico lives on their own reservation that belongs
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The apaches pretty much live like we do. The children play, Go to school, and help around the house by helping fish and/or hunt. Apache man and woman roles varied by status. There were famous tribe leaders who were always men, one of them was Geronimo. The woman typically were in charge of the home and doing things like building new homes when they moved. They also took care of the children and the cooking. It was very rear that a woman become a warrior and got to fight like a man. The men where the hunters, worriers, and leaders. Man could only be chiefs in the tribe. But, both took part in medicine, artworks, music, and other things. Most of their homes were built in wooden frames covered by a brush and was called wickiups. The clothing verify gender and position. Woman wore bucks skin dresses. Men wore leather war skirts and breecloths (long rectangular pieces of tanned deerskin, cloth, or animal fur.) Apaches also wore moccasins. Although, I made one as a visual aid, Apaches did not traditionally wear feathered war bonnets, they adopted it from their friends Kiowa’s. Other Apache still wear leather or cloth
The apaches pretty much live like we do. The children play, Go to school, and help around the house by helping fish and/or hunt. Apache man and woman roles varied by status. There were famous tribe leaders who were always men, one of them was Geronimo. The woman typically were in charge of the home and doing things like building new homes when they moved. They also took care of the children and the cooking. It was very rear that a woman become a warrior and got to fight like a man. The men where the hunters, worriers, and leaders. Man could only be chiefs in the tribe. But, both took part in medicine, artworks, music, and other things. Most of their homes were built in wooden frames covered by a brush and was called wickiups. The clothing verify gender and position. Woman wore bucks skin dresses. Men wore leather war skirts and breecloths (long rectangular pieces of tanned deerskin, cloth, or animal fur.) Apaches also wore moccasins. Although, I made one as a visual aid, Apaches did not traditionally wear feathered war bonnets, they adopted it from their friends Kiowa’s. Other Apache still wear leather or cloth