Title: Thunder Rides a Black Horse
Description: Details the four-day Apache "changing woman" ceremony by which pubescent Apache girls are formally recognized as adults.  Includes a look at the author's relationship with an extended Mescalero family and some observations on Mescalero culture and life.
Subjects: Mescalero Indians, Religion, Rites and ceremonies, Apache, Apaches, Mescolero, Changing Woman, mythic present, Fiction, general
Places: Ruidoso, New Mexico