Jicarilla meaning

hē'kə-rē'yə, -rēl'yə
A member of an Apache tribe formerly inhabiting southeast Colorado and northern New Mexico and ranging eastward to the Great Plains, with a present-day population in northern New Mexico.
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Origin of jicarilla

American Spanish (Apaches de la) Jicarilla (Apaches of the) Jicarilla probably diminutive of jícara chocolate-cup (from the shape of a local hill) perhaps from Nahuatl xicalli gourd, drinking vessel

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  • The other Indians live on reservations, of which there are three: the Mescalero Apache reservation, in Otero county, containing 554 Indians in 190o; the Jicarilla Apache reservation, in Rio Arriba county, with a population of 829; and the Navaho reservation, in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, which contains in that part of it situated in New Mexico a population of 2480.

  • Indian day schools are maintained by the Federal government at Albuquerque, Jicarilla, Santa Fe and Zuni.

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