Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico Junior Ranger Red-tailed Hawks are one of

Red-tailed Hawks are one of the most commonly seen raptors in North America

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Official park mug approved by the National Park Service for White Sands National Monument

" –The New Yorker

a wild canine found not only throughout the Southwest

Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico Junior Ranger Red-tailed Hawks are one ofStorytelling 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