The Sunrise Ceremony is still a threshold event in the changing Apache world. An Apache mother thrills as her 12-year-old daughter undergoes a rite she never had.

As long as anyone can remember, the Western Apache have used a site 60 miles east of Phoenix for a coming-of-age ritual.

Culture: When Angel Griggs finishes a grueling four-day ceremony, she will be recognized as a woman. Custom links tribe's storied past and, perhaps, its future.

The Apache tribe in Arizona is taking a fight with the federal government and copper producers to the Supreme Court, which they hope will protect what they say is their religious rights to sacred ...

How Apache girls transition into womanhood: The 4-day Sunrise Dance : The Picture Show The Sunrise Dance is a four-day coming-of-age ceremony — a significant and highly spiritual event for the ...

The Mescalero Apache conducted a recent blessing ceremony on its ancestral homelands at White Sands Missile Range for the first time in more than a century. The Oscura Blessing Ceremony took place ...

“Many sacred Apache rituals will be ended, not just temporarily but forever,” the group told the Supreme Court. The case arrived at the high court before Trump took power again in January.

Another First Amendment case that the Court will consider this Friday, but on the religion side, is Apache Stronghold v.United States (briefs at the link); here's the question presented:. For ...

Nazareth remembers Apache with moving ceremony, victory By . Marc Raimondi. Published Jan. 12, 2012, 5:36 a.m. ET. Nazareth players were in tears. There was a somber silence in the gym.

The Apache tribe in Arizona is taking a fight with the federal government and copper producers to the Supreme Court, which they hope will protect what they say is their religious rights to sacred ...