Tsésh ke shéndé

Tsésh ke shéndé, or the Painted Wood people, were a Lipan Apache band. Lipan traditions identify them among a number of related bands whose leaders directed the movements of their local groups and negotiated peace or war. The Painted Wood people may once have lived along the upper Brazos River, in the southern plains. The Lipan homeland extended across a broad country of rivers, grasslands and mountain margins.