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.

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