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

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 ...
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 ...
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Ancient Apache dance performed for first time in 160 years at Opelousas Museum

ST. LANDRY PARISH (OPELOUSAS) — The Canneci Tinne Apache Tribe has lived in Louisiana since the 1700s, with ancestral territories in areas such as Prairie Maronne in St. Martin Parish and Bayou Tortue ...
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 ...