Those Who Stayed Behind: Lipan Apache Enclaved Communities

Type Title Author Additional Authors Year Publisher Copyright ISBN URL
Article Those Who Stayed Behind: Lipan Apache Enclaved Communities Oscar Rodriguez Deni J. Seymour 2019 University Press of Colorado 978-1-60732-885-8 URL

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Historians who have studied the Indian tribes of Texas and northern Mexico have long been bedviled by a simple question – what happened to the Lipan Apaches? Where did they go? How could one of the largest Indian tribes in Texas – with a population estimataed in 1762 at 3,000-5,000 people and possibly as many as 8,000 – be reduced by 1904 to 225 persons officially identified as Lipan Apaches living on a reservations in New Mexico and Oklahoma?