Dził Nchaa Si An, or Big Seated Mountain in Apache, is shown on most maps as Mount Graham. At 10,720 feet above sea level, it dominates the otherwise flat landscape in southeastern Arizona’s Gila ...

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 ...

An Apache girl comes of age in a traditional ceremony, possibly the last at Oak Flat before copper mining threatens to ...

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 ...

A coalition of religious and Native American organizations is uniting to support the nonprofit group Apache Stronghold in its fight to save the sacred site of Oak Flat, a 7-square-mile stretch of land ...

FILE - In this July 22, 2015, file photo, Tribal councilman Wendsler Nosie, Sr. speaks with Apache activists in a rally to save Oak Flat, land near Superior, Ariz., sacred to Western Apache tribes, in ...

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 ...

SUPERIOR, Ariz. (RNS) — The Apache believe Oak Flat is a 'blessed place' where Ga’an — guardians or messengers between the people and Usen, Creator God — dwell. The site is at risk of being turned ...

WHITERIVER — In 2002, the Fort Apache Timber Co. employed about 400 members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe, sustainably harvesting ponderosa pine while maintaining habitat for the Mexican spotted ...

PHOENIX (AP) - An attorney for members of the San Carlos Apache tribe on Friday asked the the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to back a nonprofit group’s efforts to keep a copper ...

"She's strong," someone said, and the other Apache people in the room all nodded in agreement, very slight nods in comparison to the enthusiastic bobbing that one might see in a group of white ...