APACHE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS. The Lipan Apaches are one of the Apache tribes of the American Southwest outlined in the general Apache entry. Of all Apaches, the Lipans ranged the farthest east, even as far as the Mississippi River. The Lipans primarily...

Mangas Coloradas (Eastern) and Victorio (Eastern or Mimbres) were also famous (to non-Apaches at least) Chiricahua leaders between 1850 and 1890. Not to mention Juh (Southern). Then there is Nana, who was with both Victorio and Geronimo, whom Crook in...

MANGAS COLORADAS Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches Edwin R. Sweeney University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1998. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. xxiii + 578 pp. $34.95. In 1991, Edwin R. Sweeney published Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief. Based on more than a...

In southeast Arizona, a national monument that's ideal for winter wandering About a mile down the Echo Canyon Trail, the mummies start to surround you. At least that's what it looks like. The path winds through a legion of eerie stone figures,...

Legislation to make English the state's official language has run into opposition from American Indians, who say their native tongues are dying fast enough without any help from lawmakers.As Oklahoma observes its centennial year, the English-only issue points up divisions that persist more than a...

A small sampling of federal money recently sought by lawmakers for projects in states holding presidential nominating contests Tuesday.___Alabama_ $136,000 to the Bryan W. Whitfield Memorial Hospital in Demopolis for equipment and facilities._ $195,000 to the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind in Talladega...