The Apache are a group American Indians who before white contact, roamed over what is now Arizona, Northern Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Southern Great Plains. Today Apache tends to be the collective term for several culturally related groups of Native American Indians in the United States originally from the American Southwest.
These Indigenous Peoples of North America speak a Southern Athabaskan (Apachean) language, which is related linguistically to the languages of Athabaskan speakers of Alaska and Western Canada. The modern term Apache excludes the related Navajo people however they and the other Apache groups are clearly related through culture and language and thus are considered Apachean.
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