#apacheleap — Public Fediverse posts
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“If they take #OakFlat, they destroy our #religion & who we are,” said Vanessa Nosie, an archaeology aide for the #SanCarlosApacheTribe who also helps her father lead a nonprofit fighting the mine. Lozen, she added, is “dancing to carry the fight for all we’re trying to save.”
#conservation #law #ChíchilBiłDagoteel #Apache #SacredLands #TontoNationalForest #mining #ApacheStronghold #NativeAmericanLands #HistoricPlace #Arizona #ApacheLeap
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Surrounded by a hundred family & fellow tribal members, dancers, singers & medicine men, she would perform the Sunrise Dance, reenacting part of the #Apache creation story. At the end, after she had been daubed in clay to represent the mythological mother of all Apaches & ritually cleansed, Lozen would emerge as a young woman.
#law #conservation #ChíchilBiłDagoteel #SacredLands #ApacheStronghold #TontoNationalForest #NativeAmericanLands #Arizona #SanCarlosApacheTribe #ApacheLeap #mining