Lipan Apache are Southern Athabaskan (Apachean) Native Americans whose traditional territory included present-day Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, LeÃ³n, coahuila And tamaulipas prior to the 17th. century
A handmaiden (or handmaid) is a female assistant (or slave) that waits at hand, they can be considered a female servant, or attendant.
In 1984, when Atwood began writing The Handmaid's Tale, women in the United States were experiencing a reduction in many of the social, political, and economic gains that they had made during the 1960s and 1970s.