Jicarilla
Americannoun
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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.
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the Athabascan language of the Jicarilla.
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Daryl Vigil, water administrator for the Jicarilla Apache Nation in New Mexico, noted that the 1922 Colorado River Compact, which established the system of allocating water from the river, didn’t apply to tribes.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2021
Mr. Paulsen had lived on a 200-acre ranch in White Oaks, a former ghost town near the Jicarilla Mountains, and treasured his solitude, saying he could only think clearly when he was far from society.
From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2021
Haaland, who joined other officials at a remote site in San Miguel County, acknowledged that the area makes up part of the ancestral homelands of the Jicarilla Apache and northern pueblos of New Mexico.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 17, 2021
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
Ouray was born in 1834, in Taos, N. Mex., his father being a Ute, and his mother a Jicarilla Apache.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.
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