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===Cibecue Apache=== (Spanish derivation of the [[Endonym|autonym]] of the Apache living in the Cibecue Creek Valley and [[Salt River Canyon]] known to them as ''Dishchíí Bikoh'', ''Dishchíí Bikoh,'' or ''Dishchííkoh'' – “Horizontally Red Canyon” or “Red Ridge Valley”, therefore the Apache living there were called ''Dishchíí Bikoh N’déé'', ''Dishchíídn'' – “Horizonally Red Canyon People” – sometimes shortened to “People of the Red Canyon” or “Red Canyon People”, possibly of Navajo/Zuni ancestry, ranged north of the [[Salt River (Arizona)|Salt River]] to well above the [[Mogollon Rim]] between Cherry Creek in the west to Cedar Creek in the east – sometimes they were found even further west on [[Tonto Creek]], in the [[Sierra Ancha]] and the [[Mazatzal Mountains]] considered to be Southern Tonto Apache land), today all part of the federally recognized tribe of the White Mountain Apache of the Fort Apache Reservation * Canyon Creek band (''Gołkizhn'' – “Spotted on Top People” or “Marked on The Ground People”, likely refers to a mountain that is spotted with junipers, lived along [[Canyon Creek (Arizona)|Canyon Creek]], a tributary of the [[Salt River (Arizona)|Salt River]] in the [[Mogollon Rim]] area, western band of the Cibecue Apache with five local groups)<ref name=Palmer>{{cite book | author=Palmer, Jessica Dawn |title=The Apache Peoples: A History of All Bands and Tribes Through the 1880s | location=Jefferson, North Carolina| publisher=McFarland & Company | year=2013 | isbn=978-0-7864-4551-6}}</ref> * Carrizo band (''Tł’ohk’aa hagain'', ''Tł’ohk’aa digaidn Bikoh N’déé'' – “White Arrowgrass Goes Up People” or “Canyon of the Row of White Canes People”, lived along Carrizo Creek, a tributary of the [[Salt River (Arizona)|Salt River]], eastern band of the Cibecue Apache with four local groups)<ref name=Palmer /> * Cibecue band (''Dziłt’aadn'', ''Ts’iłt’aadn,'' or ''Dziłtaadn'' – “Base of Mountain People/Foot of the Mountain People”, lived along Cibecue Creek, a tributary of the [[Salt River (Arizona)|Salt River]], middle or central band of the Cibecue Apache with four local groups)<ref name=Palmer />
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