The Apache language by John C. Cremony  The Apache Language |
Its Remarkable Regularity and Copiousness | How Apaches are
Named | Apache Beauties | Disinclination to tell their Apache
Names  From Life among the Apaches as observed by John C.
Cremony, ca. 1862  Elsewhere it has been stated that my
vocabulary of the Apache language had been forwarded to the
Smithsonian Institute through General Carleton, and that it had
been handed to Professor George Gibbs for the purpsoe of being
incorporated in his forthcoming work on Ethnology. As it was the
only copy in my possession, I am compelled to rely solely on
memory for the very unsatisfactory skeleton I am able to offer
in this chapter. It will, however, serve to convince the reader
of the superior intelligence of the Apache Indians as compared
with nearly all other tribes of American Indians, while it
places them at the head of races purely nomadic.  Many of the
African, Australian, North and South American tribes, and those
who inhabit the Pacific Oceanica, toge