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title: "Why did the Apache nomads of the Great Plains flee to New Mexico where they raided Spanish settlements?"  
description: "Why did the Apache nomads of the Great Plains flee to New Mexico where they raided Spanish settlements?"  
author: "camila johnson"  
published: 2018-04-04  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40684/why-did-the-apache-nomads-of-the-great-plains-flee-to-new-mexico-where-they-raided-spanish-settlements  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history", "america and world war i"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why did the Apache nomads of the Great Plains flee to New Mexico where they raided Spanish settlements?

Why did the [Apache](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/11351/mobile-application-development-using-apache-cordova) nomads of the Great Plains flee to New Mexico where they raided [Spanish](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41826/what-was-cuba-s-status-after-the-spanish-american-war) settlements?\
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