As long as anyone can remember, the Western Apache have used a site 60 miles east of Phoenix for a coming-of-age ritual.

Even after being turned away by the Supreme Court, Western Apache in Arizona haven't given up hope on blocking a major mining ...

The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to halt a land transfer in Arizona that Western Apache people say will destroy a sacred site in order to mine for copper. The decision leaves in place a lower ...

The land, which has great spiritual value to the Western Apache Indians, sits on the world’s third-largest deposit of copper ore. Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, whose rulings have long supported ...

Land in central Arizona holds great spiritual value to the Western Apache Indians and is on the world's third-largest deposit of copper ore.

This is Oak Flat (Chi’ chil Bildagoteel), a sacred site for Native Americans, including the Western and San Carlos Apache. And like many other lands across the West, it’s under grave threat ...