Apache
Lifestyles
By: Justin G.
Food was important to the Apache. Prairie dogs, snakes, turkeys, and fish in the Apache tribe were believed to be unclean so they didn't eat them. Apache boys were taught to move quickly and quietly through the forest to catch food for their family. Every Apache male hunted. Two or three feathers were plucked from a bald eagle instead of being hunted for food. The Apache hunted a lot.
Houses were called wickups in the Apache
tribe. Girls at age 13 were able to build a wickup for their family. Men loved to tell stories to their family in their wickup. Only women made
wickups. Any wickup of a dead person would be
burned. Wickups were the houses for the Apache.
The Apache hunted a lot. Deer was their favorite meat! The first thing an Apache male did before hunting was greased his body with animal fat to keep out the smell of a person and make the person smell like an animal so the animals wouldn't smell the person and un away. The animals the Apache tribe usually hunted were bear, coyote, javelin, jackrabbit, buffalo, fox and beavers. If you caught a eagle you would probably take the feathers and they would be worth a lot of money. The Apache killed a lot of animals.