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PHOENIX (AZFamily)—The clock is now ticking for an Arizona federal judge to rule on a controversial land swap that could happen as early as mid-June. Native tribes argue that transferring land in the ...

On June 6, 2024, the Supreme Court decided Becerra v. San Carlos Apache Tribe, No. 23-250, holding that the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (ISDA), 25 U.S.C. § 5301 et seq., ...

FILE - In this July 22, 2015, file photo, Tribal councilman Wendsler Nosie, Sr. speaks with Apache activists in a rally to save Oak Flat, land near Superior, Ariz., sacred to Western Apache tribes, in ...

WASHINGTON (AP/AZFamily) --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 ...

A coalition of Western Apaches and allies, backed by Catholic and other religious groups, have again requested court intervention to halt a federal land transfer that would turn over Oak Flat, a ...

TEHAMA – Three Apache Women Warriors is the topic of the next free lecture presented at the Tehama County Museum at 275 C Street in Tehama on Saturday, May 9, ...

SUPERIOR — Carlos Nosie sunned himself in a camp chair as he watched a group of young runners converge on Oak Flat to pray for the site to be spared from obliteration by a copper mining operation. "I ...

Two Arizona tribes filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management for approving a high-voltage transmission line, alleging the government failed to ...

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