Apache girls make bread during the four-day celebration. But there was one part about my culture that I didn’t learn (I think because I was already old): the Apache Sunrise Dance.

Included in the film is footage of an Apache Fire Dance, possibly by the White Mountain Apache dancers in Arizona. The film canister indicates that the film was shot in Dec. 1929, however, the month ...

The Sunrise Dance is a four-day coming-of-age ceremony — a significant and highly spiritual event for the young lady and the Apache community.