Jicarilla Apache Centennial Highway

The Jicarilla Apache, a Southern Athabascan people, migrated to the Southwest from northwest Canada. The Jicarilla Apache pre-reservation homeland extended from southeastern Colorado, through northeastern New Mexico, to the Texas/Oklahoma panhandle. The Jicarilla Apache were named by the Spanish for the reed baskets they wove. They are composed of two clans, the Llanero (plains) and the Ollero (mountain).