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JICARILLA

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 414 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JICARILLA  , a tribe of

North
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American Indians of
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Athapascan stock . Their former range was in New Mexico, about the head-waters of the Rio Grande and the Pecos, and they are now settled in a reservation on the
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northern border of New Mexico . Origin-ally a scourge of the
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district, they are now subdued, but remain uncivilized . They number some Boo and are steadily decreasing . The name is said to be from the
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Spanish jicara, a
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basket
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tray, in reference to their excellent basket-
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work .

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