KVIA

Mescalero Apache’s hardships from wildfires & woman’s emotions run high at shelter

MESCALERO APACHE RESERVATION, New Mexico (KVIA) -- The wildfires near Ruidoso have devastated the lands that are native to the Mescalero Apache Tribe. Some tribal members have had to flee to shelters ...
El Paso Times

FBI links pair to deadly Salt Fire near Ruidoso, New Mexico, documents reveal

FBI agents have linked a man and a woman to the deadly Salt Fire near Ruidoso, New Mexico, from a vehicle seen fleeing at least five other fires and shoe prints left at the scene, court documents ...
KVIA

Man sentenced for stabbing assault on Mescalero Apache reservation

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) -- 21-year-old Lestat Cree Valdez will spend the next 46 months in federal prison for repeatedly stabbing a woman on the Mescalero Apache reservation. Court documents ...
Daily Reporter

Why these Apache Catholics felt faced with a ‘false choice’ after priest removed church’s icons

MESCALERO, New Mexico (AP) — Anne Marie Brillante never imagined she would have to choose between being Apache and being Catholic. To her, and many others in the Mescalero Apache tribe in New Mexico ...
Albuquerque Journal

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 ...

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. Teepees and ...
Odessa American

Apache Christ icon controversy sparks debate over Indigenous Catholic faith practices

MESCALERO, New Mexico Anne Marie Brillante never imagined she would have to choose between being Apache and being Catholic. To her, and many others in the Mescalero Apache tribe in New Mexico who are ...