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Tribal leaders urged lawmakers Wednesday to pass a package of bills that would protect cultural and sacred sites by creating a new tribal cultural areas designation and require Native input on any decisions on those lands.

It’s time for us to fight for a comprehensive, intersectional, bottom-up approach to confront economic injustice.

A panel of Bureau of Land Management experts has analyzed an environmental impact statement for a proposed copper mine near the Oak Flat area of Tonto National Forest.The analysts said that further study should be done on the mine’s impact to local water sources.The report says that the EIS seemed incomplete in places and could benefit from additional information.It suggested

Members of Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit working to protect the Apache sacred site in Arizona known as Oak Flat, are requesting a rehearing i...

A few months ago, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a group of San Carlos Apaches in their fight against a copper mine in the Oak Flat area of Tonto National Forest.But the court may take up the case again.In June, a panel of three 9th U.S. Circuit judges ruled 2-1 against the Apaches, who say the mine will destroy a sacred site.But the court, in a rare move,

$720 million goes directly to tribal nations, but compromises raise questions.

(RNS) — ‘It affects Indian country as well as all religious organizations,’ said Apache Stronghold founder Wendsler Nosie Sr.

A panel at the National Native Media Conference in Phoenix last week explored conflicts involving public lands, resource extraction and sacred sites around the West. “Tribes are not being obstructionists when their public health and the health of their communities are at stake," said Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva.

Apache Stronghold has until Sept. 22 to appeal the case to the Supreme Court

Center for Biological Diversity: SUPERIOR, Ariz.— Conservation groups filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today in response to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality’s decades-long failure to limit pollution in Queen Creek.