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Apachen stammen aus Nordamerika und sind athapaskisch

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“Die Vorfahren der Apachen kamen ursprünglich aus dem Norden Nordamerikas und gehören zur athapaskischen Sprachfamilie, deren Ursprung im nördlichen Nordamerika, insbesondere im heutigen Kanada und Alaska, liegt.”
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Summary

The Apache peoples are descended from Athabaskan‑speaking groups that originally inhabited northern North America, including regions of present‑day Canada and Alaska. Linguistic and archaeological evidence shows that these ancestors migrated southward to the Southwest around the early second millennium AD. Thus, the claim about their northern origin and Athabaskan affiliation is accurate.

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  • Athabaskan Peoples - myText CNM

    Relations with Athabaskan migrants also shaped the course of New Mexico’s histories in the years before the arrival of the Spanish. The Athabaskans were the ancestors of the modern Navajo and Apache peoples, and they fanned out across the ...

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  • From 2-.H.E. Land .P.F Ever Winter 2-9THE American Southwest

    nected more with Northern Athapaskan than it is with Apachean, whose date · Kari does not dispute. The Pacific Coast Athapaskan groups branched first, per- haps 1,500 years ago (see Golla 2007:71; Krauss 1980:12; Krauss and Golla 1981: 68); see below for discussion of the timing of Apachean branching. As noted earlier, the close linguistic relationship between the languages of · the Athapaskan family has long been evident.

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  • MATERIAL CULTURAL CORRELATES OF THE ATHAPASKAN EXPANSION:

    This tale maintains that the Apaches were · originally the slaves of Central Asian horticulturalists who rode horses and used bows · and arrows. “Legend told of a revolt and flight to the east through dark forests and · across water larger than any river. Having left the Old World and entered a New World, the people moved east and south” (Cole 1988:2). Some educated Chiricahua even go · so far as to claim that their former Asian residence was Xinjiang, in the heart of East

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  • Apache - Wikipedia

    Other Athabaskan-speaking people in North America continue to reside in Alaska, western Canada, and the Northwest Pacific Coast. Anthropological evidence suggests that the Apache and Navajo peoples lived in these same northern locales before migrating to the Southwest sometime between AD 1200 ...

  • Athabaskan languages - Wikipedia

    Apachean (Navajo, White Mountain ... Carlos Apache, Mescalero–Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Plains) Branches 1–7 are the Northern Athabaskan (areal) grouping. Kwalhioqua–Clatskanai (#7) was normally placed inside the Pacific Coast grouping, but a recent consideration by Krauss (2005) does not find it very similar to these languages. A different classification by Jeff Leer is the following, usually called the "Leer classification" (Tuttle & Hargus 2004:72–74): ... Alaskan (Ahtna, Denaʼina, ...

  • Southern Athabaskan languages - Wikipedia

    In S. Tuttle & G. Holton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2001 Athabaskan Languages Conference (No. 1, pp. 75–94). Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center. Sapir, Edward. (1936). Linguistic evidence suggestive of the northern origin of the Navaho. American Anthropologist, 38 (2), 224-235. Young, Robert W. (1983). Apachean languages. In A. Ortiz, W. C. Sturtevant (Eds.), Handbook of North ...

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