The various Apache tribes of Arizona number about 5000. They are about
equally divided between the two adjoining reservations, San Carlos and
White Mountain. Their habitat was the upper drainage systems of the
Salt and Gila Rivers. Culturally, they are related to the Pima and the
Yuman-speaking Yavapai and Walapai to the west. They are related also
linguistically, and in pre-Spanish times culturally, to the Navaho who
live north of them. In a general way they participate in the social and
religious life characteristic of the whole Southwestern area.
BOURKE, JOHN G. The Medicine Men of the Apache (9th Annual Report of
the Bureau of American Ethnology.)
GODDARD, P. E. In the _Anthropological Papers of the American Museum
of Natural History_, vol. XXIV:
Myths and Tales from the San Carlos Apache, part 1.
Myths and Tales from the White Mountain Apache. part 2.