Each fall the sun races the moon in northern New Mexico. Jicarilla Apache runners competed in their annual Go-Jii-Ya harvest relay race some 200 years ago, and each September they continue to run this most important ceremony of the Jicarillas (Hee-kuh-REE-yuhs), the northernmost band of Apaches. The annual footrace pits the sun, represented by the …
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