Jicarilla Apache - Definition and Overview

Jicarilla Apache refers to an Apache people currently living in New Mexico and to the Apachean language they speak. The term jicarilla comes from Mexican Spanish meaning 'little basket'.

Links

• Jicarilla Apache Nation website (http://www.jicarillaonline.com/)
• Jicarilla Apache Tribe (http://www.sos.state.nm.us/BLUEBOOK/jicarilla.htm)
• Jicarilla Apache: Tinde (http://www.ausbcomp.com/redman/jicarilla.htm)
• Myths of the Jicarilla Apache (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/RusJica.html)
• The Jicarilla Genesis (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/MooJica.html)
• An Apache Medicine Dance (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/RusMedi.html)
• Jicarilla Texts (http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/pla/jat/)

Recommended Reading

• "A Jicarilla Expedition and Scalp Dance", Morris Edward Opler, 1941. narrated by Alasco Tisnado
• Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians, Morris Opler, 1942.
• "Mythology and folk belief in the maintenance of Jicarilla Apache tribal endogamy", Morris Opler, 1947.
• Wilson, Alan, & Vigil Martine, Rita. (1996). Apache: Jicarilla. Guilford, CT: Audio-Forum. ISBN 0-88432903-8.