A federal court is poised to decide whether a Native American sacred site will be destroyed by a massive copper mine. Mining proponents claim that destroying the sacred site is necessary for the ...

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 court ...

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Land in central Arizona known as Oak Flat and holding great spiritual value to the Western Apache Indians is also on the world’s third-largest deposit of copper ore and at the center of court battles.

(RNS) — Congress approved the transfer of the land to Resolution Copper in 2014 in exchange for 6,000 acres elsewhere, but the Western Apache claim that the site has unique spiritual meaning. (RNS) — ...