Religious rights advocates and First Amendment experts say the ability of Native peoples to exercise religious rights is at ...

A huge mining company has to keep its hands off the holy Apache land of Oak Flat… for now. On Friday afternoon, a federal judge ruled that the decade-long battle over the federally-owned land roughly ...

A sacred site for Native Americans is on the verge of being destroyed for profit, and profit alone—just one more colonial conquest of lands in the American West. Thacker Pass in northern Nevada. This ...

Dr. Wendsler Nosie Sr. of Apache Stronghold talks to a crowd of people outside the Sandra Day O’Connor Courthouse on May 7, 2025, as Apache Stronghold urged the federal court to save Oak Flat. (Photo ...

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. A federal judge ...

Apache Stronghold leader Wendsler Nosie was away from his trailer at the Oak Flat encampment. He fears the worst had he been ...

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 justices left in place lower ...

A federal judge in Phoenix paused a land transfer of 2,400 acres — including the centuries-old Western Apache sacred site, Oak Flat — to a foreign mining company while the U.S. Supreme Court considers ...