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Cover: Allan Houser (U.S., Chiricahua Apache, 1914-1994) “Apache Singer Kneeling by Fire,�

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Courtesy Chiinde, LLC. This spread: sunrise at the White Mountain Apache reservation; photograph by John Jernigan

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> Learn Comanche A Beginner’s Packet is free to enrolled tribal members, $70 for others, includes shipping. http://www.comanchelanguage.org clcpc@comanchelanguage.org > >

NORMAN > Native American Youth Language Fair Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma Monday, April 7 thru April 8 http://nal.snomnh.ou.edu/fair > >

PAWHUSKA > Osage Cultural Center Classes on Ribbon work, Fingerweaving, Beading, Roach-making and more. http://www.osagetribe.com/cultural 918-287-5539

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PHILADELPHIA, PA > Native American Voices: The People—Here and Now The Penn Museum, throughout April An exhibition touching on issues of identity, tribal sovereignty, language retention, and more. http://www.penn.museu

RADIO > Chickasaw Community Radio KCNP 89.5 FM > Indians For Indians Saturdays at 10 am on KACO 98.5 FM > Kiowa Voices Sundays at 12 noon on KACO 98.5 FM Music and more from the Kiowa and area tribes. > Seminole Nation Weekly Radio Show Live on Tuesdays, 11 am on KWSH 1260 AM http://www.kadaradio.net > >

WASHINGTON, DC > Cherokee Days at NMAI National Museum of the American Indian Thursday, April 3 thru April 5 An unprecedented educational event by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the Cherokee Nation. http://nmai.si.edu

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> ALLAN HOUSER DRAWINGS: THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION > Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK > elatively unknown to those who champion Houser’s art, and exhibited here for the first time, are one hundred drawings by the artist that show, as Professor W. Jackson Rushing III and guest curator of the exhibition describes it, “Houser visually thinking out loud.”

The exhibit unveils a side of the artist little known and features, among other subjects, warriors and hunters, women and their work and abstract Apache designs. > http://www.ou.edu/fjjma 405-325-1660 > > For other celebrations of the centennial of Houser’s birth: http://www.okhouser.org

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Allan Houser Chiricahua Apache 1914-1994 The Old Storyteller 1961, Pen and ink, 13 ¾ x 13 3/16 in Courtesy Allan Houser Foundation

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Allan Houser Chiricahua Apache 1914-1994 Buffalo Hunt c. 1992, Charcoal, 58 ¾ x 47 ½ in Courtesy Allan Houser, Inc.

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Allan Houser Chiricahua Apache 1914-1994 Study for Warm Springs Apache Man 1991, Charcoal, 58 ¾ x 47 ½ in Courtesy Allan Houser, Inc.

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Allan Houser Chiricahua Apache 1914-1994 Apache Father and Son c. 1992, Charcoal, 58 ¾ x 47 ½ in Courtesy Allan Houser, Inc.

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Allan Houser Chiricahua Apache 1914-1994 Large Ga’an Dancer in the Glow of a Fire, 1994 Pastel and charcoal, 50 x 28 ¼ in Courtesy Allan Houser, Inc.

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> The Apache Na’ii’ees (Sunrise Ceremony) is a four-day ritual that Apache girls experience after their first menstruation.

Through numerous sacred ceremonies, dances, songs, and enactments, the girls attain the physical and spiritual power of White Painted Woman, and become women of the Apache nation.

> The Sunrise Dance starts on Saturday morning. Cierra is woken up before sunrise by one of the medicine man’s assistants and is led out to the dance grounds.

> All photographs by John Jernigan

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> Cierra, her helper, the medicine man and his assistants greet the first warm rays of the Sun. Cierra must prepare the blankets she will dance and be massaged upon.

A buckskin is also placed there and pollen is placed in an abalone shell. Lots of candy, fruit and sodas to be given away are nearby. That day, Cierra will dance to the four directions, re-creating a spiritual journey through the stages of life. She will be massaged by her godmother to mold her into White Painted Woman.

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> After the Sunrise Dance, two men cut down trees that will be used to build Cierra’s prayer tipi. Eagle feathers adorn the ceremonial structure.

That evening, dinner is served to everyone and there are gift exchanges.

> We thank Cierra’s family and Mr. Bert Hinton for allowing us to document this occasion. We will feature this Na’ii’ees in four parts.

This is Part II.

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