For the fictional character from the Lone Ranger who was Comanche (sometimes identified as Comanche Apache), see Tonto.
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Flag of the Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona
The Tonto Apache (Dilzhę́’é, also Dilzhe'e, Dilzhe’eh Apache) is one of the groups of Western Apache people and a federally recognized tribe, the Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona.[1] The term is also used for their dialect, one of the three dialects of the Western Apache language (a Southern Athabaskan language).
The following Tonto Apache tribes are federally recognized:
Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona[1]
Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Arizona[2]
San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona[2]
White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona[2]
Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona[2]
^ ab"Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs". Federal Register. 87: 4636–4641. 28 January 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
^ abcd"Tribal Governments by Area: Western." Archived 2012-02-28 at the Wayback Machine National Congress of American Indians. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
TontoApache (Dilzhę́’é, also Dilzhe'e, Dilzhe’eh Apache) is one of the groups of Western Apache people and a federally recognized tribe, the Tonto Apache...
Coyotero, and Tonto). Today, Apache tribes and reservations are headquartered in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma, while in Mexico the Apache are settled...
Tonto is a fictional character; he is the Native American (either TontoApache, Comanche, or Potawatomi) companion of the Lone Ranger, a popular American...
within reservations. The Fort Apache Indian Reservation, San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, Yavapai-Apache Nation, TontoApache, and the Fort McDowell Yavapai...
Yavapai were mistaken as Apache by American settlers, who referred to them as "Mohave-Apache," "Yuma-Apache," or "Tonto-Apache". Before the 1860s, when...
Mogollon Rim to the north and the San Carlos and Fort Apache Indian Reservation to the east. The Tonto (Spanish for "dumb") is managed by the USDA Forest...
eastern Arizona. Although the word tonto means silly or foolish in Spanish, this place name is derived from the Apache word, Koun’nde, which means wild...
Cibecue Apache territory, various bands of Southern TontoApache, Tsiltaden ("mountain side people", a clan or band of the Chiricahua Apache a part of...
Apache Chiricahua, southeastern Arizona Western Apache San Carlos Apache, southeastern Arizona TontoApache, central Arizona White Mountain Apache, eastern...
Yavapai and TontoApache were killed. Only one man was killed on the Americans' side during both engagements and soon after the Yavapai and the Tonto began...
American settlers on Yavapai and Tonto land. At the time, the Yavapai were considered a tribe of the Western Apache people because of their close relationship...
Mountain Tonto Western Apache is most closely related to other Southern Athabaskan languages like Navajo, Chiricahua Apache, Mescalero Apache, Lipan Apache, Plains...
reservations in the U.S. state of Arizona. Indigenous peoples of Arizona Fort Apache Indian Reservation List of federally recognized tribes in Arizona List of...
Mountain, Cibicue, Northern Tonto, Southern Tonto - and include the Mimbreno, a band of the Chiricahua. "Jicarilla Apache Nation". www.newmexico.org....
leading an Apache work crew that was building the Tonto road to the new Roosevelt Dam site on the confluence of the Salt River and Tonto Creek on the...
6725; -111.1531 (Apache Trail, northeastern end)), through the Superstition Mountains and the Tonto National Forest. From Apache Junction heading northeast...
American settlers on Yavapai and Tonto land. At the time, the Yavapai were considered a band of the Western Apache people due to their close relationship...
White Mountain Apache warrior Eyelash is buried in Fort Sill cememtry, Southern TontoApache Chief/Scout Hosay is buried in Fort Apache cememtery, Hosay...
Territory between the United States Army and a group of Yavapai and TontoApaches as part of Lieutenant Colonel George Crook's campaign to return the...
"Ah-oochy Kah-mah & his friend Irateba Two TontoApache girls, civilized & christians, good girls; Coyotero Apache woman, sold by her lord & master for 40...
Indigenous Canadian actor and athlete. He was well known for his role as Tonto, the Native American companion of the Lone Ranger in the American Western...
in 2015 Mazatzal Casino Payson Gila Arizona Land-based Owned by the TontoApache Paradise Casino Yuma Yuma Arizona Land-based Owned by the Quechan Tribe...
the word tonto is translated as silly or foolish in Spanish, this place name for either Tonto Basin or Tonto Creek is derived from the Apache word, Koun’nde...
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