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 ...
Reporters Dana Hedgpeth and Erin Patrick O’Connor were invited to observe the Sunrise Dance. They spent four days camping in heavy rain and flood waters to document a ceremony that is rarely seen by ...
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 ...
The Sunrise Dance is a four-day coming-of-age ceremony — a significant and highly spiritual event for the young lady and the Apache community. I remember living on and off the Yavapai-Apache Nation's ...