Mescalero-Chiricahua (also known as
Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache) is a
Southern Athabaskan language spoken by the
Mescalero and
Chiricahua tribes in
Oklahoma and
New Mexico. It is related to
Navajo and
Western Apache. Mescalero-Chiricahua has been described in great detail by the anthropological linguist
Harry Hoijer (1904–1976), especially in Hoijer & Opler (1938) and Hoijer (1946). Hoijer & Opler's
Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts, including a grammatical sketch and traditional religious and secular stories, has been converted into an online "book" available from the University of Virginia.