Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Phillips, an Apache tribe member who works for the Resolution Mining Co., stands on a platform overlooking Oak Flat, where ...

SUPERIOR, Ariz. – The rugged patch of land known as Oak Flat sits in the Tonto National Forest. To the San Carlos Apache Tribe, the 740-acre swath of oak groves and sheer cliffs is sacred ground, a ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - A group of Apaches who have tried for years to reverse a land swap in Arizona that will make way for one of the largest copper mines in the U.S. sued the federal government on Jan.

Apache Stronghold member Raetana Manny, 4, shows a sign to save Oak Flat, a site east of Phoenix that the group considers sacred, as she joined a gathering at Self Help Graphics & Art in the Los ...

In Arizona, a heated struggle over a patch of land has pitted Native Americans against Republicans in Congress as Apaches seek to regain protection for an area considered holy to their people. Members ...

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 ...

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 ...