CEDAR CREEK --The bonfire is built in the shape of a teepee, with logs taller than the men who set it ablaze at dusk. Tongues of flame lick 15 feet into the late September sky, where storm clouds have ...

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

Families gather near a planned copper mine for what could be the last Apache Sunrise Dance at the sacred location.

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 ...

In camp, Edgar tells the story of an 1881 battle in the village of Cibecue when the U.S. cavalry went to arrest a tribal member. A half-dozen soldiers and an unknown number of Apaches were killed as ...

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 ...