Today Chiricahua are enrolled in three federally recognized tribes in the United States: the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, located near Apache, Oklahoma, with a small reservation outside Deming, New Mexico; the Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation near Ruidoso, New Mexico; and the San Carlos Apache Tribe in southeastern Arizona.
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Chiricahua Apache, written as Chiricagui, Apaches de Chiricahui, Chiricahues, Chilicague, Chilecagez, and Chiricagua, were given that name by the Spanish.
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Several loosely affiliated bands of Apache came improperly to be usually known as the Chiricahuas.
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Today, all are commonly referred to as Chiricahua, but they were not historically a single band nor the same Apache division, being more correctly identified, all together, as "Central Apaches".
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Chiricahua Apache viewed the United States colonists with ambivalence, and in some cases enlisted them as allies in the early years against the Mexicans.
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Today, the Chiricahua Apache are preserving their culture as much as possible, while forging new relationships with the peoples around them.
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The Chiricahua Apache are a living and vibrant culture, a part of the greater American whole and yet distinct based on their history and culture.
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The historian Rex W Strickland argued that the Apache had come to the meeting with their own intentions of attacking Johnson's party, but were taken by surprise.
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Chiricahua Apache's body was mutilated by the soldiers, and his people were enraged by his murder.
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In late frontier times, the Chiricahua Apache ranged from San Carlos and the White Mountains of Arizona, to the adjacent mountains of southwestern New Mexico around what is Silver City, and down into the mountain sanctuaries of the Sierra Madre.
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However, another group of Chiricahua were not captured by US forces and refused to surrender.
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The Chiricahua Apache range extended to the east as far as the Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico and to the west as far as the San Pedro River Valley in Arizona, north of Magdalena just below present day Hwy I-40 corridor in New Mexico and with the town Ciudad Madera, as their southernmost range.
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