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Contrary to some beliefs, it does Not mean raider or knife or anything else in Spanish. It comes from a Tewa Indian word (navahu or navahu'u - nava-"planted fields" hu- "mouths of canyons") for the Navajo people that the Spanish learned in the 1540s. It means fields in a river valley. They were called Apache de Navajo, "the Apache type people who farm feilds in river bottoms". Apache comes from a Zuni word for "enemies"

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