Mescalero-Chiricahua
[aka Chiricahua, Mescalero, Chiricahua-Mescalero]Classification: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit
·threatened
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Threatened
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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>1,500
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2,800?
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Over 1,500 members — slightly under half — of the Mescalero Tribe of New Mexico are first-language speakers of Mescalero-Chiricahua, most of them Mescaleros, although perhaps a dozen identify as Chiricahuas.
- PLACES
- USA, Oklahoma, New Mexico
- ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Mescalero Tribe of New Mexico. The principal Chiricahua community is at Ft. Sill, in southwestern Oklahoma, where they settled early in the 20th century.