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The first leg of an important awareness campaign begins on Whidbey Island.

A dispute in Arizona between Indigenous people and mining interests has drawn strong interest from the Religious Liberty Clinic at the University of St. Thomas School of Law.

Arizona’s U.S. senators are urging federal officials to classify copper as a critical mineral amid growing demand. They say it’s necessary for national security and water and clean energy infrastructure.

The National Congress of American Indians president and Quinault citizen spoke about environmental stewardship at the World Economic Forum.

Tribal groups are fighting an Arizona project whose backers say increasing the supply of copper, crucial to batteries, would reduce fossil-fuel use.

Imagine having to choose between having water or a mining project in your backyard. Or between having a job or polluting your community. What would you choose? This dichotomy is the choice that the people of La Higuera in northern Chile were proposed by Dominga’s project developers. However, this false framing – which is faced […]

Indigenous issues took center stage Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Congress approved the transfer of the land at Oak Flat to Resolution Copper in 2014 in exchange for 6,000 acres elsewhere, but the Western Apache claim that the site has unique spiritual meaning.

Rep. Paul Gosar, booted off his committees in 2021, will rejoin the investigatory House Oversight and Accountability Committee.

(RNS) — Congress approved the transfer of the land to Resolution Copper in 2014 in exchange for 6,000 acres elsewhere, but the Western Apache claim that the site has unique spiritual meaning.