"It’s our Creator who you need to get to know through the Church. We believe in the Creator and we pray, but we know that eventually, after death, we turn back to spiritual beings."
During a time when the national debate about painful history is prominently in the spotlight, the Tekakwitha Conference embraces the history, culture and religion of indigenous peoples.
There is scant record of any attempts to bring Christianity to the Apaches since the days of Fray Benavides until the first “inashood” (Blackrobe missionaries) at the turn of the century.
