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Mescalero Apache Reservation (Indian reservation (Native American reservation)) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 33 10 01 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 33.1660 decimal degrees |
| Long: 105 35 54 W degrees minutes |
Long: -105.5980 decimal degrees |
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Note: This is a federally-recognized reservation stewarded by the Mescalero Apache Tribe, one of three sub-tribes of the Mescalero Apaches. The reservation spans 463,000 acres on the eastern side of the Sacramento Mountains and the borders of the Lincoln National Forest in Otero and Lincoln Counties, New Mexico. Though the Mescalero Apaches, from whom the Mescalero Apache Tribe descend, occupied the Southwest prior to European contact, the Mescalero Apache Tribe was not granted a federal reservation on its aboriginal homelands until may 29, 1873. On this date, President Ulysses S. Grant formally established the reservation via an Executive Order. Members of the Lipan Apaches and Chiricahua Band of Apaches, who had survived forced imprisonment in the aftermath of the Texas Revolution, were also settled on the Reservation in the early 1900s; they later became members of the Mescalero Apache Tribe when it was reorganized under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act. |
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| Mescalero Apache Reservation (preferred,C,V,English-P,U)
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| Mescalero Reservation (C,V,English,U)
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| Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation (C,V,English,U,N)
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Otero (county) (P) |
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| Indian reservation (Native American reservation) (preferred, C) |
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| inhabited place (C) |
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