To reclaim, revitalize and preserve Apache culture through education and active practice.

Our Convictions:

Our tribal status does not subjugate our identity.

To freely learn, practice and promote apache culture, from music and dance, food, ceremonial rituals and celebrations, language, and shared history.

To promote our culture as alive, remembered and practiced through shared memory. We are not a relic of the past or some exotic specimen to be analyzed and picked apart.  We seek respect and dignity for our ancestors and for our future generations yet to be born.

To obliterate fear. Fear that the older generation felt of being perceived as savage enemies, drunkards, low life government dependents, unintelligent and/or primitive.  Fear of our current generation not being native ENOUGH. Not being authentic, not being legitimized, not being pure blood, not looking or acting Native enough based on societies stereotypes of what Natives should be versus what it in reality is.

To accept and promote modernity as a people for health, welfare, social, political, and economic equality. We do not live in a time capsule and living modern lives does not compromise our ability to pay homage to our ancestral traditions.

To focus on family with the purpose of educating our children on their identities as Apache, we are navigating how we introduce Apache culture and traditions into our modern, American, Christian lives. We are happy to share our experience with others as we discover both what is was to be Apache then and what it is to be Apache now.

Thank you/ixehe