In this belief, the Western Apache have worshipped for centuries using the leaves, the trees, the water and the dirt to ...

OAK FLAT, Ariz. — On a recent morning about an hour outside Phoenix, the pounding of tribal drums reverberated across the desert from a stand of oaks in the Tonto National Forest, where nearly 20 men ...

Stretching to loosen his limbs as the voices of singers ascended over the incessant drumbeat, Myron Burger fitted a 15-pound black bear hide on his head. The animal is his brother, he said, while ...