Wendsler Nosie Sr., an Apache elder and longtime opponent of the proposed Resolution Copper mine, said the court ruling "will not stop our struggle to save Oak Flat." (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) ...
On April 25, 2024, the Tohono O’odham Nation, the National Congress of American Indians, the Inter-Tribal Association of Arizona, the Association on American Indian Affairs, and the National ...
As the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals gets ready to hand down a decision in Apache Stronghold v. United States, religious leaders—Sikh, Jewish, Muslim, Catholic, Mennonite—who have filed amicus briefs ...
As the Apache people have sought to protect and preserve the Oak Flat area in Arizona from a potential copper mine, they have drawn support from other Native American tribes, conservation ...
Members and supporters of a Native American coalition from Arizona gathered outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday to hold a prayer circle, hoping to compel the justices to hear their case, which ...
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 ...
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Race Deconstructed newsletter. To get it in your inbox every week, sign up for free here. A federal appeals court recently made a seismic announcement: It ...
Land in central Arizona known as Oak Flat and holding great spiritual value to the Western Apache Indians is also on the world’s third-largest deposit of copper ore and at the center of court battles.
OAK FLAT, Ariz. — 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 ...
(RNS) — A federal appeals court will rehear Apache Stronghold’s case against the United States to save the sacred site of Oak Flat, a 6.7-square-mile stretch of land east of Phoenix that a private ...
A heavily divided panel of federal judges Friday rejected an Apache religious challenge to the construction of a massive copper mine on Oak Flat, a stretch of land in Arizona that tribe members ...
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