The San Carlos Apache Tribe wants a federal court to delay a land swap that would allow construction of a copper mine at Oak Flat. A federal judge ordered a halt to the deal last week after hearing ...

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.

Arizona's state fish, the Apache trout, was removed from threatened species status by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday during a ceremony at Bass Pro Shops in Mesa. It marks the first ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily)—The clock is now ticking for an Arizona federal judge to rule on a controversial land swap that could happen as early as mid-June. Native tribes argue that transferring land in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP/AZFamily) --The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Apaches who are fighting to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they hold sacred. The ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland containing a Native American sacred site to a copper-mining company. The ...

Apache Stronghold has enlisted a formidable legal partner to press the high court to halt an Arizona mine on land it considers sacred. TONTO NATIONAL FOREST, Arizona — Vanessa Nosie worries the ...

Elaborate crowns, songs filled with blessings and sacred tribal dances were some of the ways ASU students experienced American Indian culture Tuesday afternoon. The American Indian Council -- the ...