This year marks 150 years since President Ulysses S. Grant signed the executive order establishing the Mescalero Apache Reservation. Although a fraction of the wide territory the Mescalero originally occupied, the establishment of the New Mexico reservation marked a stable place where the tribe could call home and practice their ceremonies and traditions after decades of conflict with the U.S. Government. It’s now also a center of economic development and natural resource management.

GUESTS

Pascal Enjady (Mescalero Apache), language and culture assistant  

Jacob Daukei (Mescalero Apache), councilman for the Mescalero Apache Tribe

Duane Duffy (Mescalero Apache), councilman for the Mescalero Apache Tribe