Plains Apache
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![Essa-queta, Plains Apache chief](/Images/godic/202502/03/Kiowa_Apache_Essa-queta5522.jpg")
![Kiowa-Apache](/Images/godic/202502/03/Wohngebiet_Kiowa-Apachen5522.png")
![Richard Aitson, poet and award-winning beadworker, is both Kiowa and Kiowa Apache](/Images/godic/202502/03/Richard_aitson_kiowa5522.jpg")
The Plains Apache are a small Southern Athabaskan group that traditionally live on the Southern Plains of North America in close association with the linguistically unrelated Kiowa nation, and today are centered in Southwestern Oklahoma. The tribe is federally recognized as the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma.