Our goals are to create a cultural center to preserve and maintain our Nde (Apache) culture, language, traditions, including protecting our historic and sacred sites. The OCRS helps organize the Tribal Annual Gathering and coordinates with other Apache spiritual advisors/medicine-men (diiyiin) from other federally recognized tribes in Arizona and New Mexico. We are currently working on a language program and restoring our traditional ceremonies and music.
The OCRS is working in a cooperative endeavor on a project that help veterans and first responders that suffer from post traumatic stress disorders. This is through traditional ceremonial therapies that have been used by the Apache for centuries in coping with war and death. These therapies are through sweat lodges, warm springs soaking, white clay mud bathing, drumming and ceremony as we refer to as the war way.
Ojo Caliente Restoration Society (OCRS) The OCRS serves as as historical preservation, cultural attache and ambassadors for the Chihene Nde Nation of New Mexico. The membership comprises of members of the Band and are Tribal Elders appointed by the Tribal Council to serve on the Board of Directors of the OCRS. Our goals are to create a cultural center to preserve and maintain our Nde (Apache) culture, language, traditions, including protecting our historic and sacred sites. The OCRS helps organize the Tribal Annual Gathering and coordinates with other Apache spiritual advisors/medicine-men (diiyiin) from other federally recognized tribes in Arizona and New Mexico. We are currently working on a language program and restoring our traditional ceremonies and music.
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