Apacheria is homeland, memory, and continuance.

We advocate with the social services industrial complex to assure that our children are not taken from their parents and instead are raised culturally in our community. We strive to keep our children out of the prison industrial complex and reeducate our children in response to the indoctrination of the educational system. We hold monthly ceremonies, drumming circles, talking circles, tribal council meetings, language classes, and rites of passage. We prepare our children for navigating the genocidal world into which they are born.

Despite the ethnic cleansing and displacement, we as an Apache community have endured two invasions, the theft of our land, the kidnapping and incarceration of our relatives into internment camps. We continue to suffer from imposed poverty, white supremacy, racism and lateral violence from American Indian communities that subscribe to the genocidal policies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ declarations of who can be “officially” regarded as American Indian. We continue to live in the traditional homeland of our original communities from Montana to the Mipimí Desert in Mexico, from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi. Our Apache community refuses to acknowledge the imposed geopolitical borders that serve only to further divide our Indigenous communities. We recognized one another, without the need for impositions from white institutions perpetuating paper genocide.

We have the capacity to stand out as the unique community that we are or we can blend into the scenery disregarded by the invaders.

We remain culturally intact, socially connected, spiritually connected, cognizant of who we are as individuals, families, community and as a people who continue to reside on the homeland of our ancestors. As a community we have always taken care of our own therefore surviving centuries of invasion and occupation.