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Western Apache Sites
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Chi'chil Bildagoteel (Oak Flat) in Arizona, sacred to the Western Apache as a place of prayer and coming-of-age ceremony, and the subject of a continuing struggle against mining. It remains in active ceremonial use.
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What Defines This GroupingPlaces in east-central Arizona whose significance is carried in their names and in the narratives attached to them: a named place recalls a story, and the story is used to instruct. Almost none of it is marked by anything built. 2 Status
Status TodayLiving. The place-names and the narratives attached to them are in current use among Western Apache people, and the places they name are used now. 2 Learn More
Western Apache sacred sites
This small group gathers a sacred site of the Western Apache people of the American Southwest, a place bound to their traditions, narratives and ceremony. These are sites of a living culture.
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