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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

Jicarilla Apache has leased water it already has access to for energy production, recreation and conservation, and to benefit threatened and endangered fish.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

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

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

The tribes residing and roaming within the limits of New Mexico are the Navajoes; the Mescalero, Gila, and Jicarilla bands of Apaches; the Muache, Capote, and Weeminuche bands of Utes; and the Pueblos.

From The Indian Question (1874) by Francis Amasa Walker

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The Jicarillas, or, as they are commonly called, "Jicarilla Apaches," occupy a reservation of nearly four hundred and fifty square miles of mountainous country in northern New Mexico.

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

To all intents and purposes, therefore, the Jicarillas were a plains tribe.

From The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis

See Turkey Temperature of White Mountain reservation, 13 Texas, Apache raids into, 9, 14 Tipis of the Jicarillas, 134 Tizwin.

From The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis

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