Ava Victoria Bryce Olquin with her first attendant, Deanna Grey. Apache Crown Dancers, also known as Mountain Spirit Dancers, participate in a Sunrise Dance. Apache girls make bread during the ...

FORT SILL, Okla. (March 6, 2025) – Fort Sill Soldiers and families kicked off the Army Emergency Relief campaign March 5 at Twin Oaks Bowling Center with a $250,000 fundraising goal, symbolizing ...

The Sunrise Dance is a four-day coming-of-age ceremony — a significant and highly spiritual event for the young lady and the ...

She is painted white by her Crown Dancers and her godfather to help her not become old and grow white hair. Apache Crown Dancers paint Lillian Begay during her Apache Sunrise Dance. Alejandra ...

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 ...