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Apache Indian
Clans
The Apache are divided into many clans which, however, are not totemic and they usually take their names from the natural features of localities, never from animals. Like clans of different Apache tribes recognize their affiliation. The Juniper clan found by Bourse among the
White Mountain Apache at San Carlos agency and Ft Apache (Jour. Am.
Folklore, iii, 112, 1890), called by them Yogoyekayden, reappears as
Chokonni among the Chiricahna and as Yagoyecayn among the final Coyoteros.
The White Mountain Apache have a clan called Destchin (Red Paint), which
is correlated to the Chic clan of the Chiricahua and appears to have
separated from the Satchin (Red Rock) clan, both being represented among
the Navaho by the Dhestshini (Red Streak). The Carrizo clan, Klokadakaydn,
of San Carlos agency and Ft Apache is the Khugaducayn (Arrow Reed) of the
Pinal Coyoteros. Tutzose, the Water clan of the Pinal Coyoteros, is found
also among the White Mountain Apache, who have a Walnut clan, called
Chiltneyadnaye, as the Pinal Coyotero have one called Chisnedinadinave. Natootzuzn (Point of Mountain), a clan at San Carlos agency, corresponds
to Nagosugn, a Pinal Coyotero clan. Tizsessinaye (Little Cottonwood Jungle
of the former) seems to have divided into the clans Titsessinaye of the
Pinal Coyotero, of the same signification, and Destchetinaye (Tree in a
Spring of Water). Kayhatin is the name of the Willow clan among both, and
the Navaho have one, called Kai. Tzisequittzillan (Twin Peaks) of the
White Mountain Apache, Tziltadin (Mountain Slope) of the Pinal Coyotero,
and Navaho Dsilanothilni (Encircled Mountain), and Tsayiskidhni (Sagebrush
Hill), are supposed by Bourke to have had a common origin. And there are
many others traceable in the various Apache divisions and in the Navaho.
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Handbook
of American Indians, 1906
Index of Tribes or Nations
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