Editing Jicarilla Apache (section)

===Pressures for Jicarilla Apache land===
The Apaches' traditional culture, economy, and lifestyle became strained by the arrival and growth of other populations, [[Manifest Destiny]], and the [[Indian Wars]].  Many people died due to [[famine]], the [[Indian Wars]], including the [[Battle of Cieneguilla]], and diseases not indigenous to the American [[continent]], to which they had no resistance.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

When the [[Comanche]], who had obtained guns from the French, and their close allies and kin, the [[Ute tribe|Ute]], were expanding onto the plains, they pillaged the various eastern [[Apache]] peoples (Jicarilla, [[Mescalero]], and [[Lipan Apache people|Lipan]]) who occupied the southern plains in a bid for control. As they were pushed off the plains, the Jicarilla moved to the mountains and near the pueblos and Spanish [[Mission (Christianity)|missions]], where they sought alliance with the [[Puebloan peoples]] and the Spanish settlers.<ref name="Pritzker12" /> In 1724, several Apache bands were annihilated by the Comanches, who forced them to "give up half their women and children, and then they burned several villages, killing all but sixty-nine men, two women, and three boys." The Jicarilla people were forced to seek refuge into the eastern [[Sangre de Cristo Mountains]] north of the [[Taos Pueblo]] in New Mexico. Some moved to the [[Pecos National Historical Park|Pecos Pueblo]] in New Mexico or joined the [[Mescalero]] and [[Lipan Apache people|Lipan]] bands in Texas.<ref>Carlisle, pp. 190-1, 260.</ref> In 1779, a combined force of Jicarilla, Ute, Pueblo, and Spanish soldiers defeated the Comanche, who, after another seven years and several more military campaigns, finally sued for peace. After that, the Jicarilla reestablished themselves in their old tribal territory in southern Colorado.<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3458000108.html Jicarilla]</ref>