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Membrenos Apache Indian History
Mimbreños (Spanish:
'people of the willows').
A branch of the Apache who took their popular name from
the Mimbres mountains, southwest New Mexico, but who roamed over the
country from the east side of the Rio Grande in New Mexico to San
Francisco River in Arizona, a favorite haunt being near Lake Guzman, west
of El Paso, in Chihuahua. Between 1854 and 1869 their number was estimated at 400
to 750, under Mangas Coloradas (q. v. ). In habits they were similar to
the other Apache, gaining a livelihood by raiding settlements in New
Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico. They made peace with the Mexicans from time
to time and before 1870 were supplied with rations by the military post at
Janos, Chihuahua. They were sometimes called Coppermine Apache on account
of their occupancy of the territory in which the Santa Rita mines in
southwest New Mexico are situated. In 1875 a part of them joined the Mescaleros and a part
were under the Hot Springs (Chiricahua) agency, New Mexico. They are now
divided between the Mescalero reservation, New Mexico, and Ft Apache
agency, Ariz., but their number is not separate reported.
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Handbook
of American Indians, 1906
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