Jicarilla Apache Centennial Highway

The panel's two clans are bands, and its translations lean on two Spanish words. Jicarilla is usually traced to jicara, a little cup, for the pitch-sealed basket water bottles the people wove, though some derive it from a peak the Spanish called Cerro de la Xicarilla. Their own name is given as Haisndayin, people who came from below. The split into Llanero and Ollero bands came in the nineteenth century. Ollero means potter; the panel's mountain belongs to hoyero, the mountain-valley people, a different word. Jicarilla basketmakers still favor sumac.

What the plaque says

Official Scenic Historic Marker Jicarilla Apache Centennial Highway The Jicarilla Apaches, a Southern Athabascan people, migrated to the Southwest from Northwest Canada. The Jicarilla Apache preservation homeland extend from Southeastern Colorado, through northeastern New Mexico, to the Texas/Oklahoma panhandle. The Jicarilla Apache were named by the Spanish for the red baskets they wove. They are composed of two clans the Llanero (plains) and the Ollero (mountain).

Where it stands