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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Her birth name is not spoken by the Apache people. She is known as Gouyen, meaning “Wise Woman” or “the one who is wise.” The respect she is given was hard-earned. Gouyen was born around 1857 into the ...

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 ...