On a recent morning about an hour outside Phoenix, the pounding of tribal drums reverberated across the desert from a stand of oaks in the Tonto National Forest, where nearly 20 men had packed into a ...

Carrying eagle feathers and chanting prayers, Western Apache runners hit the road on a roughly 80-mile journey this month to try to save their sacred land from being fast-tracked by President Donald ...

Apache Stronghold, a grassroots group, will ask a federal judge May 7 to halt a land swap that would allow work to start on a copper mine at Oak Flat east of Phoenix. The U.S. Supreme Court has not ...

SUPERIOR, AZ (AZFamily) — A decades-long battle has been brewing in a small mining town about an hour east of the Valley. Now, it’s about to come to a head. The group Apache Stronghold is against a ...

Naelyn Pike talks about Lozen Brown-Lopez's Sunrise Dance at Oak Flat. The tradition is under threat due to uncertainty over mining.

Wendsler Nosie Sr., a longtime opponent of the proposed Resolution Copper mine and former chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, gathers with others at Oak Flat, a piece of land held sacred by the ...