Apache+Tribe

Daily Life


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====Apache Women and Girls - In the morning women would make a breakfast out of vegetables and meats for the entire family. The meal would be enough to fill their bellies, but they never over ate. They respected animals and made sure to only eat what they needed. In the morning the women would help get the family ready for the day. They would then check on maize (corn) that they would plant by the rivers and would then go gather edible plants from the surrounding forests. Women would then gather other necessary items to complete tasks for the day. Those items would be things like firewood to keep warm, and grasses they would need to make baskets. Many tribes did not eat lunch but would have a good sized dinner to make up for it. Foods would be made of buffalo, bison, deer, quail, turkey, maize, and other fruits and vegetables. At night women would cook dinner and help get kids ready for bed. ====

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====Apache Men and Boys - In the morning the men would eat breakfast and get ready to hunt. Breakfast was not very big, but it was enough to fill them up. During the day The Apache men would hunt for food and train in combat. Men would hunt large animals life buffalo twice a year, and smaller animals like deer, rabbits, turkey and quail almost daily. Men were expected to be in great shape and they trained daily to stay physically fit. From age ten boys were trained for combat. Legend says - an Apache boy needed to run to the top of a mountain before the sun rose each day to get fit enough to pass into manhood. They would train every day in how to use swords, and tomahawks. At night they would eat a meal cooked by the women and would listen to stories about their god's and worship them. ====

=**What did they eat?**=

The Apache tribe were known as hunter gatherers. That means that they hunted animals for a source of meat and went out into the woods and fields to find vegetables, fruits, and nuts. The Apache tribe followed their prey which included buffalo, bison, deer, turkey, birds, fish, and rabbits. The women would gather corn, squash, nuts, berries among other edible foods.



Introduction

The [|Zuni], a Pueblo people, gave them the name Apachu, meaning "enemy.” In their dialects, the Apache call themselves Tinneh, Tinde, Dini, or one of several other variations, all meaning "the people.” For centuries they were fierce warriors, adept in wilderness survival, who carried out raids on those who encroached on their territory.

Early Apache were a nomadic people, ranging over a wide area of the United States, with the [|Mescalero] Apache roaming as far south as Mexico. They were primarily hunter-gatherers, with some bands hunting buffalo and some practicing limited farming.



Homes - Their dwellings were shelters of brush called wickiups, which were easily erected by the women and were well adapted to their arid environment and constant shifting of the [|tribes].

Some families lived in buffalo-hide teepees, especially among the [|Kiowa]-Apache and [|Jicarilla].



Religion was a fundamental part of Apache life. Their pantheon of supernatural beings included Ussen (or Yusn), the Giver of Life, and the ga’ns, or mountain spirits, who were represented in religious rites such as healing and puberty ceremonies. Men dressed elaborately to impersonate the ga’ns, wearing kilts, black masks, tall wooden-slat headdresses, and body paint, and carrying wooden swords.



Trade was established between the long established Pueblo peoples and the Southern Athabaskans by the mid 16th century, exchanging maize and woven goods for bison meat, hides and material for stone tools. The Apache made little pottery, and were known instead for their fine basketwork.

The Apache and the Pueblos managed to maintain generally peaceful relations; however this changed with the appearance of the Spaniards. Arrivng in the mid 1500s, the first Spanish intruders drove northward into Apache territory disrupting the Apache trade connections with neighboring [|tribes].