Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

Just hours before the deal was set to go through, a federal appeals court temporarily blocked a land transfer in Arizona on Monday that would ultimately lead to the destruction of a site sacred to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...