For those who can read them, tree rings offer a glimpse into the past. Christopher Roos is one of those people, and he’s using them to shed light on a story that reveals how Western Apache tribes have ...

A group of Apache women asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to halt a disputed land exchange at the center of a long battle over plans to build a huge copper mine at Oak Flat. It's the fourth ...

They started atop the mountain in Oak Flat on Sunday, roughly 70 miles east of Phoenix. There were nearly a dozen of them, members of the group Apache Stronghold, and by the end of the day, they’d ...

Perched 4,000 feet above the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, or Oak Flat, is a mountain refuge where Apache people have danced in ceremony since time immemorial. When the sun rises at ...

Apparently, when Native American people say that a piece of land is sacred to them, the rest of us insert air quotes around the word. “Sacred.” Meaning, not. Because if we believed what the Apache ...

U.S. District Judge Dominic Lanza refused to halt a land swap that will allow Resolution Copper to build a huge mine at Oak Flat, a site held as sacred by the Apache people. The judge conceded that ...

I remember living on and off the Yavapai-Apache Nation's Reservation while growing up. I would run around the reservation barefooted to all of my cousins' houses. We would climb all over the light ...

"She's strong," someone said, and the other Apache people in the room all nodded in agreement, very slight nods in comparison to the enthusiastic bobbing that one might see in a group of white ...

A coalition of Western Apaches and allies, backed by Catholic and other religious groups, have again requested court intervention to halt a federal land transfer that would turn over Oak Flat, a ...

OAK FLAT, Ariz. — The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a case brought by an indigenous group, seeking to block a massive copper-mining project on government-owned land in Arizona that has ...