The Lipan Apache welcoming ceremony begins with blessings and ends with buffalo stew. Attendees form a semicircle around a white tipi — built moments earlier — and hold burning bundles of sage.

Caprock Chronicles is edited each week by Jack Becker a librarian at Texas Tech University. He can ber eached at [email protected]. This week’s article is by Sherry Robinson. Robinson is the author ...

An 18th-century cemetery in Texas was just transferred back to the original tribe. The Presidio City Council voted Monday to give lands of the Lipan Apache cemetery back to the tribe after years of ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — AT&T and Human IT provided 50 refurbished laptops to the Lipan Apache tribe of Texas to be distributed to veterans and tribal families. AT&T has committed over $5 billion to ...

Through much of history, Lipan Apaches were enemies of Coahuiltecans, the Native Americans invited into Mission San Antonio de Valero for the purposes of evangelization. Lipan Apaches killed some of ...

is your neighborhood reporter San Patricio and Aransas County. CORPUS CHRISTI — After many notable sports teams have changed their culturally insensitive team names, the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas ...

A Native American tribe known for its warrior spirit is taking its religious freedom battle to a federal court. The Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas hopes to overturn a federal law that it claims violates ...

Master Sergeant and Lipan Apache War Chief Chuck Boers (U.S. Army retired), a member of the National Native American Veterans Memorial Advisory Committee, talks about his experiences as a Native ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The last time the community has been able to come out and see a wide variety of indigenous culture all in one place was 20 years ago! The Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas' Veterans ...

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It’s not unusual for a first-time novelist to receive accolades for their debut, but the superlatives Darcie Little Badger earned for her young-adult fantasy novel, Elatsoe—published last year during ...

It’s been more than a century since buffalo were bred and herded by Texas’ Lipan Apache. The animal was once an essential resource for that tribe, but they were slaughtered in the 19th and 20th ...