An Apache girl comes of age in a traditional ceremony, possibly the last at Oak Flat before copper mining threatens to transform the sacred site in Arizona.

Priscilla Lewis holds two newly-printed Apache children's books on June 30, 2023. With help from The Language Conservancy, a group focused on preserving endangered Indigenous languages, Lewis recorded ...

Series foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- 1: Introduction to the Apache tribes -- 2: Apache religion and worldviews -- 3: Language, art, music ...

Alicia Velasquez, an Iowa transplant, is the first Indigenous woman to open a boutique in Iowa City. The boutique features art and jewelry inspired by Velasquez’s Apache culture. “It’s my life,” ...

The recent removal of Franciscan artist Robert Lentz's painting, "Apache Christ," from St. Joseph Apache Mission, on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico, has been rightly reversed. It is ...

When the Vatican wanted to build an observatory on sacred land, tribal members protested by tapping into an ancient tradition: They started to run. Mount Graham is a hulking mass of rock and forest ...

Parishioners of St. Joseph Mission, a church on tribal land in Mescalero, N.M., allege that their pastor, with the knowledge of the Diocese of Las Cruces, has removed this icon depicting Christ ...

MESCALERO, New Mexico Anne Marie Brillante never imagined she would have to choose between being Apache and being Catholic. To her, and many others in the Mescalero Apache tribe in New Mexico who are ...

MESCALERO, New Mexico (AP) — Anne Marie Brillante never imagined she would have to choose between being Apache and being Catholic. To her, and many others in the Mescalero Apache tribe in New Mexico ...

An Indigenous image of Jesus Christ by an acclaimed iconographer has been removed from a New Mexico church for unspecified reasons, days after the U.S. bishops approved a pastoral framework for ...

Why these Apache Catholics felt faced with a 'false choice' after priest removed church's icons The congregation at St. Joseph Apache Mission in the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico, is struggling ...