Nation

Apache

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Region: Southwest

In the record

The United States made 5 treaties and agreements that name Apache as a party, from Treaty with the Apache (Santa Fe), 1852 to Jerome Agreement (Kiowa, Comanche, Apache), 1892 / Act of 1900.

C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 22 cessions of land from Apache: about 144 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 19 of them came through executive orders. The largest was Land of the Apache (eastern bands) in New Mexico and Texas, recorded 1886 (area 688), about 86 million acres.

The atlas records 2 broken treaty promises involving Apache: Chiricahua Apache: the 1872 reservation abolished (1876) and 27 years as prisoners of war (1886-1912/14) and Oak Flat (Chi'chil Bildagoteel): 2014 land exchange, Apache Stronghold litigation and the March 2026 transfer. 8 court cases turned on their rights: Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker, Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe and 5 more.

Today, Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, Fort Sill Apache Tribe, Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico, Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas, Mescalero Apache Tribe, San Carlos Apache Tribe and 3 more carry this history, as their own pages or research records say.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.

Act of CongressExecutive orderShapes from the 1899 federal record: approximate, not legal boundaries.

Names

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Self-names

NdeeWestern Apache (White Mountain)
NdehWestern Apache (San Carlos)
nneeWestern Apache

Land recorded as ceded

Apache About 144 million acres recorded as ceded by the end of 1894

Act of Congress132 million
Executive order11 million

Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.

22 cessions. Follow Apache through the years on the map

Who is doing the work

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Native legal and land defense, nationally

Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website

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Connections

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Land recorded in this nation’s name 22, as named in the 1899 record

Show all 22

Named in 10

Present-day governments that carry this history 9

Party to 5

Includes 2

Organizations that work with this nation 1

Apache Stronghold

Sources

libguides.library.arizona.edu/indigenous-history-borderlands/apachereference work
Today, San Carlos renders the autonym as Ndeh and White Mountain as Ndee.

Research notes

Umbrella label in NARA; bands differ per treaty.

Kind: Nation
Confidence: Medium
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