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Jicarilla

American  
[hee-kuh-ree-uh] / ˌhi kəˈri ə /

noun

  • Jicarillas,
    plural
  • Jicarilla
    plural
  1. a member of a group of North American Indians who once inhabited primarily northern New Mexico and southeastern Colorado and are now situated in northwestern New Mexico.

  2. the Athabascan language of the Jicarilla.


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Ryan invited Reyos, who was raised on the Jicarilla Apache Nation reservation in New Mexico, to his home for dinner and drinks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

A pipeline eventually will reach the southwestern portion of the Jicarilla Apache Nation in New Mexico through another tribe’s water settlement to boost economic development in the region.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

The solar-battery projects would be built outside San Juan County, with one located on Jicarilla Apache tribal land to the east and the other in McKinley County to the south.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2020

A member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation fire crew from Dulce, NM, holds the line.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 20, 2015

The conception of oscillation to show negation also appears with different execution in the sign of the Jicarilla Apaches and the Pai-Utes, Fig.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Garrick Mallery

Under Faris' unobtrusive leadership, the Jicarillas began to regain their pride.

From Time Magazine Archive

The present Apache population is approximately six thousand, including the Jicarillas and Mescaleros of New Mexico.

From The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis

Curtis The Jicarillas, like their kindred the Navaho and Apache, pay much attention to religion and ceremony.

From The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis

CurtisIt is interesting to note the difference between the Apache of Arizona and the Jicarillas in their assignment of colors to the cardinal directions.

From The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis

Arts and Industries—The Jicarillas make a great many baskets of fair quality, from which industry the tribe gained its popular Spanish name.

From The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis

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