Definitions
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- proper noun The
Apache peoples living primarily in east centralArizona . - proper noun The Southern
Athabascan language spoken by the Western Apache people.
Etymologies
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Possibly from the Yavapai word ʔpačə, meaning "people"; or possibly from the Zuni word A:pachu, meaning "Navajos".
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Examples
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When these Western Apache, who had owned that reservation before we were put there, began to have a jealous feeling against the other tribes, they told the agent and other army ofilcials some false stories so they might get something to do from the government if the Chiricahua went on the war-path.
A Chiricahua Apache`s Account of the Geronimo Campaign of 1886 1938
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