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However, Native American groups consider the land sacred and are fighting to protect it from disturbance.

A stunning loophole in Arizona’s water laws has left the state powerless to address a groundwater crisis rapidly unfolding in the Phoenix metropolitan region.

Residents of a town in central Arizona are engaged in a tug of war with Native American groups over a huge copper mine thats been proposed on national forest land. Those who support the mine at Oak …

Residents of a small Arizona town are grappling with history colliding with industry in their backyard. Native American groups and a mining company are engaged in a tug-of-war over a proposed copper mine on national forest land.

Oak Flat or Chi’chil Bildagoteel about 70 miles east of Phoenix, is an Apache sacred site where the region’s Native American peoples gather to pray and perform coming-of-age ceremonies and

Native Americans believe the mine will desecrate Oak Flat, a site for coming-of-age rituals for Apache women, healing sweat lodge ceremonies, and more.

Azee Romero climbed barefoot on the wrinkled trunk of the massive Emory oak tree at the center of the Oak Flat Campground.

Daniel Penny pleads not guilty to revised charges in chokehold death of Jordan Neely on NYC subway

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SUPERIOR, Ariz. (AP) — Growing up in a mining family that goes back generations, Mayor Mila Besich knew the Oak Flat Campground as the place where she attended union picnics as a girl and in earlier years her parents stood in a clearing to hear the World Series on the radio. Now, Besich is overseeing […]