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Allan Houser: Herding Sheep Herding Sheep, watercolor on paper by Allan Houser, a Chiricahua Apache, 1953; in the Denver Art Museum.

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Chiricahua, one of several divisions within the Indigenous Apache people of North America. At the time of Spanish colonial contact, the Chiricahua lived in what are now the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Originally a nomadic people, they faced severe pressures from settlers and an expansionist U.S. government in the second half of the 19th century. As a result, they were forced onto reservations and other restricted sites—first on the Arizona–New Mexico border, then...

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