Lipan Apache people

Lipan Apache
Total population
U.S. Census: 1,077 (2010), self-identified[1]
100 (SIL 1977) [2]
Regions with significant populations
United States:
New Mexico,[3] Oklahoma,[3] Texas[3]
Mexico:
Coahuila[4]
Languages
English, Spanish, formerly Lipan Apache
Related ethnic groups
other Apache peoples

Lipan Apache are a band of Apache, a Southern Athabaskan Indigenous people, who have lived in the Southwest and Southern Plains for centuries. At the time of European and African contact, they lived in New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas,[5] and northern Mexico. Historically, they were the easternmost band of Apache.[6]

Lipan Apache descendants today are enrolled members of the Mescalero Apache Tribe in New Mexico.[5] Other Lipan descendants are enrolled with the Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma[6] and Apache Tribe of Oklahoma,[7][8] also known as the Kiowa Apache or Plains Apache. Other Lipan Apache descendants live primarily in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arizona, and northern Mexico.

  1. ^ "2010 Census CPH-T-6. American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes in the United States and Puerto Rico: 2010". Census. 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Lipan Apache." Ethnologue. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  3. ^ a b c Mescalero Apache Research Report (2020), p. 7.
  4. ^ Mescalero Apache Research Report (2020), p. 18
  5. ^ a b Mescalero Apache Research Report (2020), p. 3.
  6. ^ a b Swanton, The Indian Tribes of North America, p. 301
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  8. ^ May, Jon D. "Apache, Lipan". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Retrieved 26 November 2022.