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Lipan Apache are Southern Athabascan ( Apachean ) people whose traditional territory includes present-day Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas prior to the 17th century.

Present-day Lipans mostly live throughout the U. S. Southwest, in Texas, New Mexico and the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, as well as with the Mescalero tribe on the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico ; some also live in urban and rural areas throughout North America ( Mexico, United States and Canada ).

The Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas was a state-recognized tribe headquartered in Texas.