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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 739 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LIPAN , a tribe of

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AMERICAN

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INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Athabascan stock . Their former range was central

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TEXAS

Texas . Later they were driven into

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Mexico . They were pure nomads, lived entirely by

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HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

hunting, and were perhaps the most daring of the Texas Indians . A few survivors were brought back from Mexico in 1905 and placed on a

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RESERVATION (Lat. reservare, to keep back)

reservation in New Mexico .

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