Lipan Apache ask Fifth Circuit for protection of sacred site

(CN) - A bend in the San Antonio River, now laden with concrete within the city's Brackenridge Park, has been sacred for the Lipan Apache since time immemorial.

They call it Yanaguana - Spirit Waters - and gather there on certain dates, including winter solstice, in accord with the location of the river-shaped constellation Eridanus. Beneath the constellation, members of the Lipan-Apache "Hoosh Chetzel" Nati