Northern Mexico and the US Southwest
White Mountain Apache
Lands
White Mountains of east-central Arizona, US (Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Whiteriver)
Countries United States
Facts 3
Population
The White Mountain Apache Tribe has over 12,000 members living in nine major reservation communities, with Whiteriver as its capital.
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Today
The White Mountain Apache own and run Sunrise, one of the largest ski resorts in the Southwest, and rare Apache trout swim in reservation streams.
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Land
White Mountain Apache people live on 1.6 million acres of their ancestral homeland, the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, set aside in 1891.
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