The start of the #Mexican War with the United States in 1846 disrupted peace and by the time the US moved into the SW at the end of the war in 1848, the #Apaches posed an almost unsolvable problem

Western #Apaches lived primarily on western side of the Continental Divide, in the mountains of present day Arizona and Western New Mexico

Mount Graham (10,720ft elevation) is sacred land to the #Apaches

37.5 % of #Apaches had incomes at or below the poverty level as of 1989

Until the arrival of the #Spanish, the #Apaches and the #Pueblos had enjoyed a mercantile relationship. #Pueblos traded their agricultural products and pottery to the #Apaches in exchange for buffalo robes and dried meat

In the days before horses were introduced, and before the historic southward migration of the #Comanche Nation, in the early 1700s the Plains #Apaches were the lords of the southern plains