Year: 1950
Type: article
Abstract: T HE early history of the Mescalero Apache Indians of the American Southwest is most obscure. 1 The Vaqueros, mentioned by Castano de Sosa in 1590, are thought by some to be buffalo-hunting Apache of the region which is now eastern New Mexico and western Texas arid may have included the Mescalero.2 Benavides, in his report to the king in 1630, said that as yet the various Apache tribes known as Apaches de Xila, Apaches de Navajo, and Apaches Vaqueros had caused no trouble.3 The group called Apaches.del Perillo, which occupied during the 16th and 17th centuries the region of the Jornada del Muerto near the Rio Grande, may have been partly composed of bands later iden-• tified as Mescalero Apache.
Authors: Morris E. Opler, Catherine H. Opler
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W767355804