New Hampshire Public Radio

Through the 4-day Sunrise Dance, Apache girls transition into womanhood

I remember living on and off the Yavapai-Apache Nation's Reservation while growing up. I would run around the reservation barefooted to all of my cousins' houses. We would climb all over the light ...
Albuquerque Journal

An Apache ceremony for the ages: On the Mescalero Apache Reservation, four days of dancing mark the passage into womanhood, testing a girl’s endurance — and enveloping her ...

At the end of July, in a forest clearing in the heart of the Mescalero Apache Reservation, a 13-year-old girl braved a coming-of-age ceremony marking her initiation into womanhood. Teepees and ...
AZ Central

As an Apache girl enters womanhood at Oak Flat, lawsuits and tariffs cast shadows

Apache girls have entered womanhood at Oak Flat for generations, celebrating at a site where they believe the mountain spirits reside. As Lozen Brown-Lopez prepared for her Sunrise Dance, she worried ...
Tyler Morning Telegraph

It’s March so the Apache Ladies are dancing again

The Tyler Junior College Apache Ladies basketball team will play for the NJCAA Division I Women’s National Basketball Tournament championship on Monday in Lubbock. Team members include (front row, ...