PHOENIXPHOENIX — Oak Flat, a piece of national forest land in central Arizona, is at the heart of a yearslong struggle between Native American groups and mining interests that both consider it ...

The Apache tribe in Arizona is taking a fight with the federal government and copper producers to the Supreme Court, which they hope will protect what they say is their religious rights to sacred ...

“If they take Oak Flat, they destroy our religion and who we are,” said Vanessa Nosie, an archaeology aide for the San Carlos Apache Tribe who also helps her father lead a nonprofit fighting the mine.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — On Sunday, May 4, members of the San Carlos Apache Tribe started their 80-mile sacred run to protest a mining operation from being built on sacred grounds. The sacred run started ...

FILE - Freddie Lane, a member of the Lummi Nation who traveled from Washington State, with a totem pole touring across the country to stop the degradation of Native lands, joins members of the Apache ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PHOENIX (AP) — Oak Flat, a piece of national ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Freddie Lane, a member of the Lummi Nation who traveled from Washington State, with a totem pole touring across the country ...