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 ...

But there was one part about my culture that I didn't learn (I think because I was already old): the Apache Sunrise Dance. The Sunrise Dance is a four-day coming-of-age ceremony — a significant and ...

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 ...