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Definition of Chiricahua in US English: ChiricahuanounˌCHirəˈkäwəˌCHirəˈkäwə 1A member of an Apache people, formerly located in southern New Mexico, southeastern Arizona, and northern Mexico, now living primarily in Oklahoma and New Mexico. Example sentencesExamples - In this way, Chiricahua women have served as safe-keepers of a heritage that is now endangered.
- Captain Thomas Roberts led an advance detachment that clashed with the Chiricahuas on July 15-16, 1862.
- Upon their surrender, Geronimo and over 300 of his fellow Chiricahuas were shipped to Fort Marion, Florida.
- The size of the award to the Chiricahuas nicely highlights the challenges associated with implementing the Act.
- That number has been reduced to around 600 members of full Chiricahua descendance today.
- In the 1980s about five hundred Chiricahua were living in Oklahoma and an indeterminate, but small number were living with Mescalero and Lipan Apache on the Mescalero Reservation.
- Here, the true nature of the geology of the Chiricahuas is laid bare for visitors to observe and ponder.
- Daklugie suffered all the ignominies heaped upon the Chiricahuas after they were exiled to Florida.
- By 1883 the Chiricahuas referred to themselves as ‘Indeh’, or ‘The Dead’.
- Among the Chiricahuas and the Western Apaches local groups comprised loose confederations called bands.
- Mexican troops killed two of Mangas's sons as well as other Chiricahuas, and these deaths had to be avenged.
- This site was called ‘The Land of the Standing-Up Rocks’ by the Chiricahua Apaches.
- 1890 - Crook, working for better treatment for the Chiricahuas, visited them at Mount Vernon, Alabama.
- For further information regarding the dealings of the Chiricahua with the Government, see Apache.
2The Athabaskan language of the Chiricahua. Example sentencesExamples - When I was in sheep camp, I listened closely and it seemed to me that it was talking the Chiricahua language.
- Many of the stories appearing in this volume were recorded and transcribed in the Chiricahua language by Harry Hoijer, a noted linguist who studied southern Athapaskan languages.
- Only 300 people are still fluent in the Chiricahua language.
adjectiveˌCHirəˈkäwəˌCHirəˈkäwə Relating to the Chiricahua or their language. Example sentencesExamples - In his context, modern Chiricahua settlement patterns now indicate a reassertion of traditional Chiricahua spatial patterns.
- Also they are reaching out to the non-Indian community to educate them about Chiricahua philosophy.
Definition of Chiricahua in US English: ChiricahuanounˌCHirəˈkäwə 1A member of an Apache people, formerly located in southern New Mexico, southeastern Arizona, and northern Mexico, now living primarily in Oklahoma and New Mexico. Example sentencesExamples - Upon their surrender, Geronimo and over 300 of his fellow Chiricahuas were shipped to Fort Marion, Florida.
- 1890 - Crook, working for better treatment for the Chiricahuas, visited them at Mount Vernon, Alabama.
- Here, the true nature of the geology of the Chiricahuas is laid bare for visitors to observe and ponder.
- In the 1980s about five hundred Chiricahua were living in Oklahoma and an indeterminate, but small number were living with Mescalero and Lipan Apache on the Mescalero Reservation.
- For further information regarding the dealings of the Chiricahua with the Government, see Apache.
- In this way, Chiricahua women have served as safe-keepers of a heritage that is now endangered.
- Captain Thomas Roberts led an advance detachment that clashed with the Chiricahuas on July 15-16, 1862.
- That number has been reduced to around 600 members of full Chiricahua descendance today.
- Daklugie suffered all the ignominies heaped upon the Chiricahuas after they were exiled to Florida.
- Mexican troops killed two of Mangas's sons as well as other Chiricahuas, and these deaths had to be avenged.
- By 1883 the Chiricahuas referred to themselves as ‘Indeh’, or ‘The Dead’.
- The size of the award to the Chiricahuas nicely highlights the challenges associated with implementing the Act.
- Among the Chiricahuas and the Western Apaches local groups comprised loose confederations called bands.
- This site was called ‘The Land of the Standing-Up Rocks’ by the Chiricahua Apaches.
2The Athabaskan language of the Chiricahua. Example sentencesExamples - Many of the stories appearing in this volume were recorded and transcribed in the Chiricahua language by Harry Hoijer, a noted linguist who studied southern Athapaskan languages.
- Only 300 people are still fluent in the Chiricahua language.
- When I was in sheep camp, I listened closely and it seemed to me that it was talking the Chiricahua language.
adjectiveˌCHirəˈkäwə Relating to the Chiricahua or their language. Example sentencesExamples - In his context, modern Chiricahua settlement patterns now indicate a reassertion of traditional Chiricahua spatial patterns.
- Also they are reaching out to the non-Indian community to educate them about Chiricahua philosophy.
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