Post by chicheman on May 27, 2012 8:34:24 GMT -5
The Plains-Apache, also known as Kiowa-Apache, call themselves
"Nadi-isha-Dena" or "Na´isha"in their own Language. They were long time close allies especially to the Kiowa people. Tribal memories going back to a time when the two tribes lived together in northern areas, in the mountains of western Montana and around the Yellowstone River. Together they eventually made a change to become Plains people, beginning that move in the 17th Century, establishing themselves as neighbors of the Crows first and later made their homeland in the southern Plains. Plains-Apache and Kiowa were known as allies of the Comanche quite early. One story tells of the peace agreement between these tribes around 1790.
Linguistically, the Plains-Apache are one of seven Apachean- or Southern Athapaskan - speaking tribes that migrated to the Southwest and Southern Plains probably around A.D. 1300 - 1500. These people are linguistically related to Northern Athapaskans of westernCanada and Alaska and the Pacific Coast of California and Oregon. The ancestors of these tribes lived once in the western subarctic forests of the Mackanzie Basin. The proto-Apacheans probably separated from this place about 2000 years ago and moved onto the northwestern High Plains. There they joined the Sarsi, the southernmost Athapaskan tribe at the time. Aproximately 1000 years later they left this location and the Sarsi in southern Alberta, Canada, and began their southward movement. Ultimately they would scatter across western Oklahoma, Texas, southeastern Colorado, parts of New Mexico, Arizona and some areas of Mexico. There they differentiate into seven recognized Apachean Languages and tribes:
Plains-Apache (Kiowa-Apache), Lipan, Jicarilla, Mescalero, Chiricahua, Western Apache and Navajo.
The Plains-Apache / Na´isha - Language today is in danger, but efforts are there to recover and revive it, working done in documenting and preserving this Apachean-Language.
((Sources and further reading :
Prayer on top of the Earth, Kay Parker Schweinfurth;
The Autobigraphy of a Kiowa-Apache Indian, Charles S. Brant;
The Kiowas, Mildred P. Mayhall;
Kiowa Voices I + II, Maurice Boyd, TCU Press)
Info also here :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiowa-Apache
chicheman
"Nadi-isha-Dena" or "Na´isha"in their own Language. They were long time close allies especially to the Kiowa people. Tribal memories going back to a time when the two tribes lived together in northern areas, in the mountains of western Montana and around the Yellowstone River. Together they eventually made a change to become Plains people, beginning that move in the 17th Century, establishing themselves as neighbors of the Crows first and later made their homeland in the southern Plains. Plains-Apache and Kiowa were known as allies of the Comanche quite early. One story tells of the peace agreement between these tribes around 1790.
Linguistically, the Plains-Apache are one of seven Apachean- or Southern Athapaskan - speaking tribes that migrated to the Southwest and Southern Plains probably around A.D. 1300 - 1500. These people are linguistically related to Northern Athapaskans of westernCanada and Alaska and the Pacific Coast of California and Oregon. The ancestors of these tribes lived once in the western subarctic forests of the Mackanzie Basin. The proto-Apacheans probably separated from this place about 2000 years ago and moved onto the northwestern High Plains. There they joined the Sarsi, the southernmost Athapaskan tribe at the time. Aproximately 1000 years later they left this location and the Sarsi in southern Alberta, Canada, and began their southward movement. Ultimately they would scatter across western Oklahoma, Texas, southeastern Colorado, parts of New Mexico, Arizona and some areas of Mexico. There they differentiate into seven recognized Apachean Languages and tribes:
Plains-Apache (Kiowa-Apache), Lipan, Jicarilla, Mescalero, Chiricahua, Western Apache and Navajo.
The Plains-Apache / Na´isha - Language today is in danger, but efforts are there to recover and revive it, working done in documenting and preserving this Apachean-Language.
((Sources and further reading :
Prayer on top of the Earth, Kay Parker Schweinfurth;
The Autobigraphy of a Kiowa-Apache Indian, Charles S. Brant;
The Kiowas, Mildred P. Mayhall;
Kiowa Voices I + II, Maurice Boyd, TCU Press)
Info also here :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiowa-Apache
chicheman
