Apache Puberty Ceremony Links

Apache Female Puberty Links

The Sunrise Ceremony

The Children of Changing Woman:
Online Native American Exhibit, Harvard's Peabody Anthropology Museum
Cambridge, Massachusetts, developed by Ernestine Cody, Western Apache
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/maria/Cwoman.html
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/maria/intro2.html

*The Sunrise Dance
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/maria/sunrisedance.html

*Mandy Begay observing a Sunrise Dance
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/maria/Mandy.html

The Legend of Changing Woman
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/maria/Gowa.html

Three Apache Women
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/maria/Apachewomen.html

More Sites on the Sunrise Ceremony:

White Mountain Apache: Sunrise Dance
http://gbms01.uwgb.edu/~galta/mrr/apache/index.htm#Sunrise

Apache Girls' Puberty Ceremony -- Anna Goseyun
http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nl/9207/0062.html

Nja Njeesh: She Is Painted Image (from Fort Apache)

Changing Woman Myth
Changing Woman
Changing Woman

ATTENDING THE SUNRISE CEREMONY

CALENDAR AND VISITS
July 4 Mescalero Apache Maiden's Puberty Rites
The Mescalero's largest ceremonial is four days long and culminates on the Fourth of July in the dramatic pre-dawn Maiden's Puberty Rite on July 4 of every year. Mescalero tribe: 505-671-4495

Calendar of Native American Events and Dances in Central New Mexico

One-World GLOBAL CALENDAR

Yearly Calendar of Indian Dances and Events at the Pueblos

Adolescence and Puberty Ceremonies
General Information and Discussion

The Opportunity of Adolescence
http://www.winternet.com/~webpage/adolescencepaper.html

Ritual Hut

http://www.ritualhut.com/pubr.html
http://www.ritualhut.com/arch.html

Blessed by the Moon: Initiation into Womanhood

Related Apache Links

APACHE WOMEN
Apache War Women by Diana Stanley

APACHE CULTURE
An Apache Medicine Dance
Apache Literature

APACHE GENERAL:
Curtis Collection: On Apaches
About.com Mining Company: Apache Links
The Apaches

APACHE TRIBES
Mescalero and Chiracahua Indians
Mescalero Reservation
Mescalero Inn of the Mountain Gods
White Mountain Apache
Jicarilla Apaches
San Carlos Apache Tribe

BOOKS: Apache

Apache - The Sacred Path to Womanhood
by John Annerino
published by Marlowe and Company, December 1998
photographs copyright 1998 by John Annerino,
scanned and optimized by Tika Yupanqui
available at Amazon.com

Apache Mothers and Daughters: Four Generations of a Family
Changing Woman and Her Sisters: Feminine Aspects of Selves and Deities
Changing Woman of the Apache: Women's Lives in Past and Present
The Gift of Changing Woman by Tryntje Van Ness Seymour (children)
book: Pagan Rites of Passage and B&N
Books: Literature
Gender in the West Bibliography

NAVAJO: Changing Woman

The Kinaalda Ceremony as a Dance into Womanhood
http://www.ccofa.org/wowzine/arc/kinaa19.html

Blessed By the Moon: The Kinaalda
http://www.snail.dircon.co.uk/SCSS/Articles/Blessed.htm
http://www.snail.dircon.co.uk/SCSS/Articles/Blessed.htm#THE KINAALDA

Books Navajo
Kinaalda : A Navajo Girl Grows Up (Roesse)

Kinaalda : A Study of the Navaho Girl's Puberty Ceremony

Molded in the Image of Changing Woman: Navajo Views on the Human Body and Personhood
Walks in Beauty
Kinaalda: A Navajo Puberty Ceremony (Begay)

Videos Navajo
Seasons of a Navajo Video (PBS, Pacific Arts)
Kinaalda: Navajo Rites of Passage Video

Introduction Quotes Images Links

TO Becoming Woman: Apache Female Puberty Ceremony
TO Becoming Woman: Seminar Transcript NEW!
TO Ancient Sites Webpages Index for Torrey Philemon
and Tika Yupanqui
Note Ancient Sites folded in 2001; many pages are being relocated.

This web site is copyright 1999 by Tika Yupanqui
(Ancient Sites name for Tracy Marks)
Last updated January 14, 2001.

Apache Female Puberty Links The Sunrise Ceremony

Apache Female Puberty Links

The Sunrise Ceremony