Indigenous people have long used fire to care for the land, and tree rings suggest those fires helped mitigate drought and ...

Families gather near a planned copper mine for what could be the last Apache Sunrise Dance at the sacred location.

A group of Apache women asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to halt a disputed land exchange at the center of a long battle over plans to build a huge copper mine at Oak Flat. It's the fourth ...

A spokesperson for the New Mexico State Land Office says the office, along with the Mescalero Apache Tribe, have postponed ...

Apparently, when Native American people say that a piece of land is sacred to them, the rest of us insert air quotes around the word. “Sacred.” Meaning, not. Because if we believed what the Apache ...

Perched 4,000 feet above the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, or Oak Flat, is a mountain refuge where Apache people have danced in ceremony since time immemorial. When the sun rises at ...

MESCALERO, New Mexico Anne Marie Brillante never imagined she would have to choose between being Apache and being Catholic. To her, and many others in the Mescalero Apache tribe in New Mexico who are ...

"She's strong," someone said, and the other Apache people in the room all nodded in agreement, very slight nods in comparison to the enthusiastic bobbing that one might see in a group of white ...