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Members of the Apache Stronghold group who traveled from Arizona paint protest signs at Self Help Graphics & Art in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights on Monday, March 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) ** FILE **

Apaches ask Supreme Court to block feds from selling sacred site to foreign mining firm

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - This June 15, 2015, file photo shows in the distance, part of the Resolution Copper Mining land-swap project in Superior, Ariz. Members of the San Carlos Apache tribe are scheduled to go before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Friday Oct. 22, 2021, in San Francisco to ask the court to back the tribe's efforts to halt the transfer of land — that they consider to be sacred — to the copper mining company. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Future of San Carlos Apache Tribe does not depend on Oak Flat

By Karen Kitcheyan-Jones

FILE - This June 15, 2015, file photo shows in the distance, part of the Resolution Copper Mining land-swap project in Superior, Ariz. A group of Apaches who have tried for years to reverse a land swap in Arizona that will make way for one of the largest and deepest copper mines in the U.S. sued the federal government Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Apache Stronghold argues in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona that the U.S. Forest Service cannot legally transfer land to international mining company Rio Tinto in exchange for eight parcels the company owns around Arizona. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Court rules against Apaches in bid to halt proposed mine

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press

Former San Carlos Apache Chairman Wendsler Nosie Sr. talks to a group gathered outside the federal courthouse in Phoenix, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. Nosie leads Apache Stronghold, a group that's asking a federal judge to keep the U.S. Forest Service from turning over a parcel of land it considers sacred, to a copper mining company. (AP Photo/Cheyanne Mumphrey)

Apaches’ fight over Arizona copper mine goes before US court

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press

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 front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. A group of Apaches who have tried for years to reverse a land swap in Arizona that will make way for one of the largest and deepest copper mines in the U.S. sued the federal government Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Apache Stronghold argues in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona that the U.S. Forest Service cannot legally transfer land to international mining company Rio Tinto in exchange for eight parcels the company owns around Arizona. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

Judge denies Apache group seeking request to halt land swap

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press

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 front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. A group of Apaches who have tried for years to reverse a land swap in Arizona that will make way for one of the largest and deepest copper mines in the U.S. sued the federal government Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Apache Stronghold argues in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona that the U.S. Forest Service cannot legally transfer land to international mining company Rio Tinto in exchange for eight parcels the company owns around Arizona. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

Apache group sues over land swap for Arizona copper mine

By FELICIA FONSECA and ANITA SNOW - Associated Press