The various Apache tribes of Arizona number about 5000. They are about equally divided between the two adjoining reservations, San Carlos and White Mountain. Their habitat was the upper drainage systems of the Salt and Gila Rivers. Culturally, they are related to the Pima and the Yuman-speaking Yavapai and Walapai to the west. They are related also linguistically, and in pre-Spanish times culturally, to the Navaho who live north of them. In a general way they participate in the social and religious life characteristic of the whole Southwestern area.
Bourke, John G. The Medicine Men of the Apache (9th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.)
Goddard, P. E. In the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. XXIV:
Myths and Tales from the San Carlos Apache, part 1.
Myths and Tales from the White Mountain Apache. part 2.
Navaho
The Navaho are an Athabascan tribe of nomadic or semi-nomadic habit occupying a reservation in northeast Arizona, northwest New Mexico and southeast Utah. In 1906 they were roughly estimated at 28,500. Sheep raising and weaving are their main industries. In many ways their ceremonial life appears like that of their neighbors, the Pueblo Indians, but the relationship of the two peoples in ceremonialism, as in other respects, has not been studied.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Matthews, Washington. Navaho Legends (Memoirs American Folklore Society, V. 1897. [See bibliography]).
The Night Chant, a Navaho Ceremony. (Memoirs American Museum of Natural History, VI, 1902.)