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Fort Sill Apache

"Fort Sill Apache Tribe" is the name of a Native American nation of Oklahoma. The Fort Sill Apache people are predominantly Chiricahua and Warm Springs Apaches from New Mexico and Arizona, and they have a unique history: the Fort Sill reservation was created by the US government as a prisoner-of-war camp for Chiricahua people who surrendered at the end of the Apache Wars. Many of these displaced Chiricahua people ended up returning to New Mexico and merged into the Mescalero Nation, but others remained in Fort Sill where their descendants live to this day.

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Here are links to our webpages about the Fort Sill tribe and language:

Fort Sill language
Apache culture
Apache Indians
Athabascan languages
Southwestern Native Americans

Here are links to other Internet resources about the Fort Sill Apaches:

Fort Sill Apache homepage
Fort Sill Apache Industries
Ft. Sill Apache culture
Wikipedia: Fort Sill Apache Tribe

And here are a few good books about the Fort Sill Apaches:
Once They Moved Like The Wind
The Chiricahua Apache Prisoners of War: Fort Sill 1894-1914
Culture and Customs of the Apache Indians

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