Apachería

Apachería is the historical name for the lands that the various Apache peoples held and moved through, a territory of the southern Plains and the Southwest rather than a single bounded country. The earliest written records describe it as reaching from north of the Arkansas River down into what are now the northern states of Mexico, and from central Texas across New Mexico to central Arizona. Its eastern part, home to the Apaches of the Great Plains, lay south of the Arkansas River in Kansas and eastern Colorado, in eastern New Mexico, and on the Llano Estacado and the central Great Plains of western Oklahoma and Texas, east of the Pecos River and north of the Edwards Plateau. The name belongs to a family of Native homeland terms, such as Comanchería and Lenapehoking, that map peoples onto the land they occupied.