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Show 460 NOTE ON THE APACHE TRIBES. my opinion, with due deference to a better one ( salvo otro mejor), that this presidio should be located in the allied to the Jicarilla than to any other Apache division, and it is not unlikely that they were absorbed by the Jicarilla and Mescalero. ( 6) Mescalero ( from mescal, a cactaceous product made into bread and used by these and other tribes). They occupied the valley of the Pecos in New Mexico and Mexico, ranging as far south as the Bolson de Mapimi. They have also been termed Mescatera, Mescolero, Mezcalero, Miscalero, Mos-calara, Mu- ca- la- moes, Musalero, Muscalaroe, Muskalero, etc. Other Apache tribes apply to them the names Na- isha, Na- ishi, Na- ishtishe; the Navaho name is Nashkili- dinne. The remnants of the tribe, numbering 450, are now on the Mescalero reservation in southeastern New Mexico. 7. Llaneros, *. e., People of the Plains, Plains Indians. Formerly said to be a numerous division, but determined by Mooney to be in reality only a division of the Mescalero, with whom they have evidently been consolidated. The Llanero band ranged the plains eastward of the Mescalero habitat proper, between the lower Pecos and lower Rio Grande. Like the names Gileno, Mim-brefio, Taracone or Faraone, the term Llanero, as applied to a geographical division of the Apache, is known only in history. 8. Lipan. From Ipa- nde ( nde = men, people), their own name; also called by various writers Gipanes, Lapan, Lapana, Lapane, Lee Pani, Lee Pawnee, Lipaines, Lipau, Lipaw, Lip-pan, Seepan, Sinapan, etc.; the Yavipai- Lipanes of Garces. They were apparently mentioned for the first time in 1699 ( Afargry) as allies of the Comanche. About this time and for at least a century later they occupied the region of Texas drained by the San Saba and Colorado rivers, being east of the Llaneros. In 1805 they were said to have 750 warriors, but the population had dwindled to 150 souls in 1840, when their principal habitat was on the Rio Nueces. Later ( 1856) they were ranging the country from Tucumcari creek, along the Canadian |