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 ...
Perched 4,000 feet above the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, Chí’chil BiÅ‚dagoteel, or Oak Flat, is a mountain refuge where Apache people have danced in ceremony since time immemorial. When the sun rises at ...