[TheThirdRuffian]

I’ve been giving my Apache wife (3/4 blood, born on the reservation) heck ever since the Clovis people turned out to be relatively recent immigrants.

So much for Native American, eh?

She took it reasonably well and then hid my sun screen and my hat when I went to the field.

[conservativeharleyguy]

Actually, her Apache ancestors were probably among the last arrivals to enter the American Southwest before the Spaniards showed up. Their own creation legends notwithstanding.

The linguistically Athab(p)askan-based tribes in the SW, including the Apaches, Navajo are relative newcomers, started arriving from way up north (their closest linguistic relatives are in northern canada and Alaska) about 1000-800 years ago and either pushed others out of what are now their lands (by force), and/or were tough and adaptable enough to occupy fringe areas that other tribes found inhospitable. Most assuredly a bloody business...