Mescalero (or Mescalero Apache) is a Native American tribe of Southern Athabaskan heritage currently living on the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation in southcentral New Mexico. The Mescaleros opened their doors to other Apache bands, the Chiricahua who were imprisoned at Fort Sill, Oklahoma and the Lipan Apaches . The Reorganization Act of 1936 consolidated the tribes onto the reservation.The reservation. The countryside of the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation is little changed fro