Names in Apache culture carried specific significance and were associated with specific relationships, experiences, and spiritual connections.

The question of what she was called, and by whom, and in what contexts, is a question about who she was in the specific cultural terms of her own tradition.

The use of “Lozen” in this account follows the scholarly convention, while acknowledging that this convention is based on the available documentation rather than certainty about how she was known to herself and to the people who knew her best.

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