Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of an Apache tribe formerly inhabiting southeast Colorado and northern New Mexico and ranging eastward to the Great Plains, with a present-day population in northern New Mexico.
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- proper noun A
Native American tribe. - proper noun The
Athabascan language these people speak.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The Jicarilla are a tribe of Athapascan stock, formerly occupying the mountain region about the headwaters of the Rio Grande, in northern New Mexico and the adjacent portion of Colorado, and ranging eastward into the plains.
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They are expert basket-makers, whence the came Jicarilla, meaning, in Spanish, "Little Basket."
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Long noted for its excellent elk hunting, the Jicarilla obviously hosts some monstrous mule deer as well.
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Long noted for its excellent elk hunting, the Jicarilla obviously hosts some monstrous mule deer as well.
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I have a friend with deep enough pockets to hunt the Jicarilla (for elk) about every other year, and he raves about it.
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I have a friend with deep enough pockets to hunt the Jicarilla (for elk) about every other year, and he raves about it.
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In 1733 a mission for the Jicarilla Apaches was founded on the Rio Trampas.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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It was the big jolly chap, whose name was Maxwell, who explained what had happened; they had been lying in wait for some Jicarilla horse-thieves who were believed to be making south for the Jornada, when they had seen me coming lickety-split with the Mimbrenos behind me.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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In 1724 the Comanches made a raid so brutally effective against the Jicarilla band that they ended up carrying off half of the women and killed all but sixty-nine members of the band.7 The Jicarillas were soon begging for, and received, Spanish protection.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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The project will provide a reliable municipal and industrial water supply to the eastern section of the Navajo Nation, southwestern part of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, and the city of Gallup, New Mexico via annual diversions of 37,376 acre-feet of water from the San Juan River.
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