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The Past is Present... Fort Apache, Arizona!

Come discover this unique icon and learn at the crossroads of cultures.
Fort Apache is located in
a region with excellent wilderness and outdoor adventure

•   Army Post from 1870 to 1922

•   Boarding School since 1923

•   Icon of the Apache Wars and the American West. Now a Center
to remember history and celebrate Apache heritage.

Come Share Our Story!

Fort Apache and Theodore Roosevelt School

Named National Historic Landmark

Reunion/Ndee La Ade-Gathering of the People

and Dance Celebration, arts and crafts, food vendors, trail hikes and

tours of the Fort Apache/Theodore Roosevelt School National Historic

Landmark. Come share a day of commemoration and fun.

Nohwike' Bágowa Museum will continue its heritage garden

in 2013 at the historic horticultural area at the confluence

of the East and North Forks of the White River. Our garden provides

demonstrations of traditional horticulture techniques and crop varieties

where ancestral Pueblo, Ndee, military, and boarding school gardeners

tended fields before us. This program is supported by a grant from the

Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The Fort Apache Heritage Foundation, Inc., is pleased to provide accommodations

for the fourth season of the White Mountain Apache Tribe/University of Arizona

Ethnography and GIS Research Experience for Undergraduates, June 13 through

July 26. This National Science Foundation-supported field school provides social

science and computer training to a select group of Western Apache and other

undergraduate students.