In the interest of getting to know my fellow New Mexicans, I went to a lecture at the Univ. a couple months ago and purchased a new book the lecturer had written:  "On the Bloody Road to Jesus, Christianity and the Chiricahua Apache."  

Exerpts: 

In the late 1700's Apache captives .... "had historically eaten only when food was available, such as after a successful hunt, when high-protein meat, heavily loaded with animal fat, was abundant.  If hunters came back empty-handed, the people went hungry or relied on small rodents for nourishment.  While this erratic food supply created periods of gluttony that alternated with times of starvation, the Chiricahuas' physiology had adjusted.  At (the Spanish camp) this familiar routine was replaced with two regular daily meals, and the Apaches' bodies rebelled.  Constipation or diarrhea afflicted most of the people, and they soon learned that the priests had no effective remedies and their traditional remedies were inaccessible."

A Jesuit writer Och noted:

"The still untamed Apaches outdo all others in feasting.  Their greatest delicacy is horse and mule meat which they roast and prefer to beef.  The most particular delicacy for them is the following:  when they have speared a horse or donkey and cut open its belly, they remove the intestines, roll them up in the animal's fat, including even a fetus in the caul, throw it on the fire where this sausage is roasted amid an unbearable stench, and then eat it with the same relish as they would the best kraut sausage.  Because of their constant eating of horseflesh, these Apaches smell quite uniquely and their weapons give off a most repulsive odor.  Horses can smell Apaches, their enemies, for a distance of as much as a quarter of an hour, and reveal through snorting and mane tossing the presence of Apaches concealed in the bush."