The Apache puberty ceremony — the Sunrise Ceremony, or Na’ii’es — is one of the central ceremonies of Apache spiritual life, marking a girl’s transition to womanhood.

This ceremony was understood not only as a social marker but as a spiritual one: it established the young woman’s relationship with the powers of the universe and was understood as a time of particularly potent spiritual possibility.

Some Apache accounts suggest that Lozen received her specific power to locate enemies during or in connection with her own Sunrise Ceremony.

The continuation of the Sunrise Ceremony in contemporary Apache communities — it is still practiced by the White Mountain Apache, the Mescalero Apache, and other Apache groups — represents one of the threads of cultural continuity that survived the catastrophe of the Apache Wars and the prisoner years.