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 ...

By the end of the fourth day, the young lady is painted white with the white clay gathered by the white mountain surrounding ...

I remember living on and off the Yavapai-Apache Nation's ... clay gathered by the white mountain surrounding our community. She is painted white by her Crown Dancers and her godfather to help ...

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 ...