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Apaches for Cultural Preservation is proud to announce that Cibecue Apaches wil host this year's Mt. Graham Sacred Run.

The Sacred Run will start in Cibecue, AZ on July 19th, travel to San Carlos, AZ, and then onto Mt. Graham the following day. Cibecue, AZ is a place that holds great history itself with Apache people who struggled for existence during time of war as well as meeting today's challenges.

Anthony Hoffman Sr. of Cibecue, who has participated through the years by bringing runners and voicing concerns with Apaches and their need to hold on to ancestral homelands, is the Sacred Run Coordinator from Cibecue.

Dzil Nchaa Si An, or Mt. Graham, is a unique mountain, which cares for special animals and continues to replenish the medicine herbs, used for different ailments. Dzil Nchaa Si is the home of the Gahn, the mountain spirits.

The University of Arizona, the Vatican, the German Max Planck Institute, the Itaian Government, University of Archetchurie, and the German Government have built telescopes on top of Mt. Graham and are now planning to run a power line up the side of the sacred mountain. Millions of dollars have been spent by the Mt. Graham astronomers in attempts to circumvent U.S. Native American cultural and religious protection laws and U.S. environmental law.

The Mt. Graham Sacred Run brings prayers and blessings to the mountain. This year is the eleventh Sacred Run to Dzil Nchaa Si An. It will begin from Cibecue, Atizona on July 19, and reach the top of Mt. Graham on July 20, 2001.

For more information, call or fax Apaches for Cultural Preservation at (520) 475-2494; email: apaches4cultural or call Anthony Hoffmann Sr., phone: 520-332-2457 You can also write to: Apaches for Cultural Preservation, c/o Wendsler Nosie Sr., PO Box 766, san Carlos, Arizona 85550 or Anthony Hoffmann Sr., PO Box 80042, Cibecue, Arizona 85911-0042