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White Mountain Apache Tribe

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Alternate Place NameDził Łigai Si'án N'deeFort Apache Indian ReservationAddress201,E Walnut St,Whiteriver ,85941,United StatesWebsitehttp://www.wmat.us/Description

We were placed here in the White Mountains by our Creator at the beginning. In this land our ancestors learned to be Ndee—The People—and we have learned from them. There are many different nations of Apache people. We are Western Apaches, closely related to the people of San Carlos, Payson, and Camp Verde. Though there are differences in language, history, and culture, we are also related to the other Apache nations: the Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarrilla, Lipan, and Kiowa-Apache peoples. When Europeans began to visit our lands, our people lived in family groups and bands, with homes and farms along all of the major watercourses: the East Fork and North Fork of the White River, on Cedar Creek, Carrizo Creek, Cibecue Creek, Oak Creek, and others. They farmed, growing corn, sunflowers, beans, squash, and other foods. They hunted deer and other game and collected abundant wild plant foods. They traveled widely, trading and raiding throughout the region and deep into Mexico. When the United States took control of New Mexico during the Mexican-American War, some of our leaders went to Santa Fe to meet with those authorities. By the time the U.S. Army came to our lands, our people knew much more about them than they did about us.

The White Mountain Apache Tribe now consists of approximately 15,000 members. Many live here on our Tribal lands, but others live and work all over the country and the world. The majority of the population lives in and around Whiteriver, the seat of Tribal government, with others residing in the communities of Cibecue, Carrizo, Cedar Creek, Forestdale, Hon-Dah, McNary, East Fork, and Seven Mile. The Whiteriver Unified School District and the Cibecue Community School offer public education. Other educational institutions include the Theodore Roosevelt School and John F. Kennedy School operated by the Indian Education Division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the East Fork Lutheran Mission School . Higher Ed opportunities are available through the regional Northland Pioneer College, which has a center at Whiteriver. Many Apache young people attend.

Our reservation consists of 1.67 million acres (over 2,600 square miles) in east-central Arizona . It ranges in elevation from 2,600 feet in the Salt River Canyon on the southwest corner of the reservation to over 11,400 feet at the top of Mount Baldy , one of our sacred peaks. It includes some of the richest wildlife habitats in the state, and more than 400 miles of streams. It is home to the Apache trout, a species brought back from the brink of extinction through the efforts of the Tribe and many partners. Through the Tribe’s Wildlife and Outdoor Recreation Division, many recreational opportunities are available on the reservation.

- Text from White Mountain Apache Tribe website. http://www.wmat.us/history.html. Accessed December 11, 2023.

CountyApache CountyGila CountyNavajo CountyStateArizonaCountryUnited StatesGeographic Coordinates^[1]Feature ClassCivil

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A get together of Girl Scout troops at Byrum Ranch (1930's), Whiteriver, Arizona

Aerial view of the town of Whiteriver

Alchesay, an Apache Military Scout and winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, taken at Fort Apache

Apache Camp

Apache Children

Apache Cornfields

Apache Group

Apache Indians herding cattle on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation

Apache Indians riding horses on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation

Apache Reservation

Apache Tribal Council meeting at Fort Apache

Apache Village

Apache Woman on Horseback

Apache children in a grove at Fort Apache

Apache mother and her baby, which is in a cradleboard

Apache woman riding a horse on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation

Apache women and children with oxen at Fort Apache

Apache workers bathing sheep at a facility on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation

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Arizona Attorney General Opinion 37-23

Arizona Attorney General Opinion 54-193-L

Arizona Attorney General Opinion 80-101

Arizona community profiles : Fort Apache Indian Reservation 1991

Arizona community profiles : Fort Apache Indian Reservation 1998

Arizona community profiles : Fort Apache Indian Reservation 1999

Arizona community profiles : Fort Apache Indian Reservation 2001

Arizona community profiles : Fort Apache Indian Reservation 2005

Arizona community profiles : Fort Apache Indian Reservation 2008

Arizona community profiles : Fort Apache Indian Reservation 2009

Fort Apache Cemetery

Joint statement of the White Mountain Apache Tribe, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and the Tohono O'odham Nation, March 26, 1993, re: indian gaming negotiations

Mexican Wolf Blue Range reintroduction project 5-year review

Mexican wolf Blue Range reintroduction project 5-year review : AMOC recommendations component

Mexican wolf Blue Range reintroduction project 5-year review : AMOC responses to public comment component

Mexican wolf Blue Range reintroduction project 5-year review : literature cited component

Mexican wolf Blue Range reintroduction project 5-year review : technical component

Proclamation of State of Emergency by Governor Hull, June 19, 2002

Report on Environmental Sanitation Survey and Public Health Service Sanitation Program, Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Whiteriver, Arizona

Status of mineral resource information for the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona

Survival and return to creel of Apache trout

Three Boarding Schools: Phoenix Indian School, Phoenix, Arizona; Theodore Roosevelt School, Fort Apache, Arizona; Chemawa Indian School, Salem, Oregon; Community Background Reports

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Carrizo

Cedar Canyon

Cedar Canyon Bridge

Cibecue

Fort Apache

McNary

Mount Baldy

Salt River Bridge

White Mountains

White River

Whiteriver

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Clair Smith Oral History

Cooley And Pettis Family Oral History, Part 1/2

Hatch Family Oral History

Shirley Jones Oral History

Turley Family Oral History, Part 1/3

Turley Family Oral History, Part 2/3

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Fire Control Map of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, 1928

Fort Apache Indian Reservation Highway System Map, 1985

Fort Apache Indian Reservation Visitors Map

Mount Baldy Wilderness, Apache National Forest

Mount Baldy Wilderness, Apache National Forest, Southwestern Region

The Fort Apache Indian Reservation

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The Apaches of the White Mountain Reservation, Arizona: Report

The Indians. Account of Gen'l Howard's Mission to the Apaches and Navajos

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The Apache Lutheran

The Apache Scout

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Clair Smith Oral History, Transcript

Shirley Jones Oral History, Transcript

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The Fort Apache Scout

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Rodeo-Chediski Fire

Person

Mickey Free

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Indian Town Halls

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