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The Jicarilla Apaches are one of the Athabaskan linguistic groups that migrated out of Canada by 1525 CE, possibly several hundred or more years earlier. [7] They eventually settled on what they considered their land, bounded by four sacred rivers in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado–the Rio Grande, Pecos River, Arkansas River, and Canadian River–and containing sacred mountain ...
Dulce (/ ˈ d ʌ l s iː / or / ˈ d uː s iː /; Jicarilla Apache: Lóosi) [4] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 2,743 at the 2010 census, [5] almost entirely Native American. It is the largest community and tribal headquarters of the Jicarilla Apache Reservation.
Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe, 455 U.S. 130 (1982) (holding that Indian Nations have the power to tax Non-Native Americans based on their power as a nation and treaty rights to exclude others; this right can be curtailed only by Congress.)
Jicarilla Apache Tribe; S. Stone Lake (New Mexico) This page was last edited on 9 January 2024, at 23:54 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Feb. 20—A federal grand jury has indicted a Farmington woman who owns oil and gas companies on suspicion of defrauding the U.S. government, Navajo Nation and Jicarilla Apache Nation of oil and ...
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), [2] is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior.It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies related to Native Americans and Alaska Natives, and administering and managing over 55,700,000 acres (225,000 km 2) of reservations held in trust by the U.S. federal government for ...
An irony of the lengthy dispute over Tierra Amarilla grant lands is that in the late 20th century the Jicarilla Apache, who had lived on the grant in the 19th century, began buying land with their gas and oil royalties. By 2013, the Jicarilla owned about one fourth of the grant lands, roughly 150,000 acres (61,000 ha). [29]
Tribes seeking recognition must submit detailed petitions to the BIA's Office of Federal Acknowledgment. To be formally recognized as an Indian tribe, the US Congress can legislate recognition or a tribe can meet the seven criteria outlined by the Office of Federal Acknowledgment. These seven criteria are summarized as: