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Show NOTE ON THE APACHE TRIBES. 459 eign monarch has allowed a presidio for the missions which will be founded on the banks of this river: it is ranged over the country occupied by the Tonto basin and Pinal mountains in central Arizona. ( 2) Chiricahua ( from ts'ihl or tsil, mountain; kawa, great). Their own name is Aiha, Aiaha, or Haya- a, but they have been variously termed Apaches Broncos, Cochise Apaches ( from their chiefs name), Chericahui, Chigui- cagui, Chilecago, Chile Cowe, Chilicagua, Chiricagui, Chiriguai, Chirikahwa, Chirocahue, Cochees, etc, etc. The band took its name from its mountainous habitat, the Sierra Chiricahua in southeastern Arizona, although they frequently ranged to the Gila, and throughout the neighboring territory of northern Chihuahua. ( 3) Gilenos; so called from their habitat, the Rio Gila. Some writers have divided them into the Coyoteros, Mogollones, Tontos Mimbrenos, Chiricahuas, and Pinalenos; in other words they were the outlying bands of various Apache divisions, especially the Mogollon and Mimbreno, residing on or near the Gila. They are the Apaches de Xila of Benavides ( 1630), the Jilenos, Coppermine Apaches, Gilans, Mangus Colorado's band, Southern Apache, and Xileiios of other writers, and the Yavipais- Gileiios of Garcls. ( 4) Mimbreno: formerly a numerous band which took its name from the Mimbres ( Sp. willows) mountains over which they generally roamed in southern New Mexico and northern Chihuahua. Their own name, according to Orozco y Berra and Escu-dero, is Iccu- jenne or Yecujen- ne. Others have called them Membrenos, Miembres, Mimbres, Mimbrenas, and Mimvres. ( 5) Taracone. More generally called Faraone, an Apache division whose name alone survives. Orozco y Berra says their Apache name is Yuta- jenne, which would suggest the name Uta or Ute. Under the names Faraone, Taracone, Pharaona, etc., they roamed over, southeastern New Mexico, between the Pecos and the Rio Grande, and as far south as the present Mexican boundary. Early writers regarded them as more closely |