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WEBThe Blue Mountain Clan is a group of traditional Apache Crown Dancers from Mescalero, New Mexico. With every step of the Crown Dance we share the wisdom of our elders, we honor our ancestors, protect our community, and …
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WEBSep 7, 2023 · At the end of July, in a forest clearing in the heart of the Mescalero Apache Reservation, a 13-year-old girl braved a coming-of-age ceremony marking her initiation into womanhood.
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WEBJun 25, 2019 · The families line up medicine men and women, plus drummers, singers, and Apache Crown Dancers. For a year, they gather traditional herbs and foods, each in their appropriate season. Sumac berries, agave hearts, sotol stalks, piñon nuts, yucca fruit.
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WEBThe Apache Crown Dance is a ceremonial dance that "celebrates ancestors, community, and traditions while honoring gifts from the Creator." The dancers embody the Gaan (Mountain Spirits), wearing masks and ornate wooden crowns replete with deep symbolism.
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WEBSep 6, 2023 · Apache Crown Dancers bless the bonfire at the coming-of-age ceremony for Seaven Martinez. Tribal Affairs. An Apache ceremony for the ages. On the Mescalero Apache Reservation, four days of dancing mark the passage into womanhood, testing a girl’s endurance — and enveloping her in tradition. by Michael Benanav September 6, 2023.
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WEBJun 25, 2024 · Under a moonlit sky, a chorus of singing and drumming rises from the forested hills of the Mescalero Apache Reservation. Masked and body-painted crown dancers circle around a raging bonfire.
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WEBMay 13, 2024 · Crown dancing is used for social dancing, healing, and to commemortate important life events. The four black-masked dancers represent the four directions. The fifth dancer is the clown, who protects the others by driving away evil spirits.
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WEBJul 27, 2024 · Apache Crown Dancers whirl around the bonfire during a coming-of-age blessing ceremony for two young tribe women in Mescalero, New Mexico, Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Under a half-moon, the men wore body paint and tall crowns, dancing to drumbeats and song around a large fire.
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WEBAug 31, 2020 · MESCALERO APACHE CROWN DANCERS BLESS A YOUNG WOMAN DURING HER COMING OF AGE CEREMONY. A large Mescalero Apache encampment, peaking at approximately 1,000 men women, and children, stood in and around what is now "Duranguito" between 1778 and 1825, decades before the City of El Paso was established.