The medicine man would bless them by putting cattail pollen on them. The male babies were put in cradle board that is what they put the babies in to carry them from place to place if traveling.The baby boys were lifted in all four directions. For the girls they were placed in the cradle board and lifted towards the east. The babies when they were born would have a chip of their ear taken off. When the babies were able to walk on their own they would get a special ceremony to give them strength and courage. When the girls started puberty they would have a ceremony called the ”sunrise ceremony”. All Indians are different and have their own religion and culture. The Apache Indians had many birth and death rituals. Some of which were the ceremonies and burial rituals. The birth rituals were a big part too. The Apache Indians were very different with different cultural