Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico BTS Pinon sap (wild crafted)

Pinon sap (wild crafted)

Honey ingredients: 100% Natural Honey

led by a visionary shaman named Pope

and other first-person testimonies

Photography by Larry Ulrich

Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico BTS Pinon sap (wild crafted)Storytelling has been a vital and vivid tradition in Apache life. Coyote tales, the creation legend and stories of historic battles with Comanche and Anglo intruders create a colorful mosaic of tribal heritage. Percy Bigmouth, a prominent oral historian of the Mescalero and Lipan Apache tribes, realized in the early twentieth century that the old ways were waning. He wrote in longhand what he had learned from his father, Scout Bigmouth, a prison camp