Gahan
Apache men performing the gahan, a devotional dance.
Apache
Indigenous North American group
- Key People:
- Cochise
- Mangas Coloradas
- Related Topics:
- Jicarilla Apache
- Chiricahua
- Mescalero
- Lipan
- Kiowa Apache
Apache, an Indigenous North American group which, under such leaders as Cochise, Mangas Coloradas, Geronimo, and Victorio, figured largely in the history of the Southwest during the latter half of the 19th century. The Apache name is probably derived from a Spanish transliteration of ápachu, the term for “enemy” in Zuñi. Before Spanish colonization, Apache domain extended over what are now (in the United States) east-central and southeastern Arizona, southeastern Colorado, southwestern and eastern New Mexico, and western Texas and (in Mexico) northern Chihuahua and Sonora states. The ancestral Apache probably did not reach the Southwest until at least 1100 ...(100 of 965 words)