Now the government plans to transfer Oak Flat to a mining company that will destroy it—ending Apache rituals forever. This would seem to be a textbook case of a "substantial burden" on religious ...

‘Keep it alive’: Apache Tribal Princess sets sights on ... there’s a certain ceremony done for them. There’s a certain ceremony done for them when they come home,” Cisco said.

Caitlyn, now 18, says she and her friends were disciplined for participating in a Sunrise Dance, a traditional Native ceremony at the core of White Mountain Apache culture. The Monday after the ...