Who were the apache Indians enemies?

Answer 1

We don't know who their enemies were before the Spanish arrived in about 1540. The word in Navajo for corn means enemies food or strangers food. The word for non Navajos is the same so we don't know if the ancestral Pueblo people were enemies or not. The word Anasazi can mean enemy ancestors or strangers ancestors as well. We do know they gained many skills and cultural ideas from the Pueblo so not all could have been fighting.

By the 1600s the Spanish were the largest enemy. They created a market for slaves and tried to control Navajo land. Because they wanted slaves and would pay well for them other tribes raided the Navajo for slaves. The Navajo also raided the Pueblo and Spanish colonies. But they also traded with and inter married with the Pueblo people and some Spanish.

By the late 1700s there was constant raiding and slaving attacks. The Ute and Comanche allied with the Spanish. It is estimated that during the early 1800s more than 66 percent of all Navajo families had experienced the loss of members to slavery.

When the area became part of Mexico they became an enemy as well. Lastly, the area came under US control and the US Army was their enemy

Answer 2

The Ute, Comanche, Kiowa and Mescalero Apache. Later the Spanish, Later the Mexicans and Americans. The Pueblo people were sometimes trading partners and in-laws and sometimes they carried out raids back and forth between the two groups.

Answer 3

The Apache Indians actually were called the Dine, which means, "the people" but all the other tribes referred to them as the Apache, which means, "the enemy." The Apache frequently made enemies with their neighbors. They also made enemies with the Spanish, Texans, and other Settlers and the Comanche's.

Answer 4

The Utes of Southern Colorado and Utah, Comanche and their allies the Kiowa Apache, the Kiowa and the Mescalero Apache. All these tribes raided the Navajo to get slaves to sell to the Spanish. It is estimated that in the mid 1800s there were about 4000-6000 Navajo slaves held by Mexicans and New Mexicans.

The Navajo in turn raided and fought back They were particularly interested in taking horses and getting captives back.

The Navajo were enemies with the Spanish for most of the time from 1540 to the Mexican period and then with the Mexicans until 1848.

The Navajos alternately raided and traded and married and borrowed ideas from the various Pueblo peoples in what is now Arizona and New Mexico.

The Zuni word for "enemy" is where the word Apache is thought to come from. They used it for all of the related groups including the Navajo so they must er viewed them as enemies. There was a lot of trading and intermarrying as well though.

The word for Lakota in Navajo is the same as the one for Comanche and means enemies so perhaps they were too. But they were very far away.

Answer 5

The Hopi's enemies are the Apaches, Navajos, and the Utes Indians

Answer 6

The Comanche, the Ute and the Mescalero Apache.

Answer 7

The Hopi Indian tribe were attacked by the Ute (yoot), Apache (uhpachee), and Navajo (navuho) Native American Indian tribes.