May 27, 2025
Breaking News. The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday announced it has declined to hear Apache Stronghold v. United States , a case that could have shielded the sacred Western Apache site of Oak Flat from being turned into a massive copper mine.
Currents
This Day in History. On this day in history, May 28, 1887, one of the greatest athletes of all time, Jim Thorpe, was born near Prague, in what was then Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation mixed with Potawatomi blook, Thorpe would go on to become a symbol of excellence in sports and a trailblazer for Native American athletes in the United States.
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The California Native Harm Reduction Summit , "Rooted in Tradition, Rising to Action," brings together Tribal and urban Native community members, people with lived and living experience of drug use, health professionals, government representatives, and local leaders to address the ongoing challenges around substance use and stigma.
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Opinion
Guest Opinion. The Oak Flat sacred site, or Chíʼchil Bił Dagoteel in the Apache language, is the property at issue in a case that has not yet been granted certiorari by the U.S. Supreme Court this term (distributed to the Assoc. Justices of the Supreme Court for conference on May 22, 2025).
Opinion. As we mark another Memorial Day, the flags will wave, the bugles will sound, and America will pause — if only briefly — to honor those who gave their lives in service to this country.
Sovereignty
The San Carlos Apache Tribe welcomed a May 9 federal court decision that temporarily halts the U.S. government’s plan to transfer Oak Flat—sacred Western Apache land within the Tonto National Forest—to Resolution Copper, a company backed by Chinese interests.
A federal court has issued an order halting the U.S. government’s plans to transfer Oak Flat—the most sacred site of the Western Apaches—to a multinational mining corporation for destruction. In the case Apache Stronghold v. United States , the government recently indicated it could hand over the land as soon as June 16, 2025, to Resolution Copper, a mining company with Chinese ownership, which intends to transform the sacred site into a massive copper mine. This would effectively end Apache religious practices tied to the land. Apache Stronghold, a coalition of Western Apaches, other Native communities, and allies, filed an emergency motion to pause the transfer while the case awaits review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Education
The cliff fendlerbush’s blooms offered countless nibbles for one hungry young deer. Its mother watched the feast from several steps away, on the other side of a nature path crossroad below Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Getting impatient, or perhaps not feeling worried, the elder deer headed off to the Animas River and left her child behind in the bush to find its own way. Sooner or later, all parents have to let their offspring go. In the human world, we often call this “graduation.”
David M. Gipp (Hunkpapa Lakota), a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, who served as the president of United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) in Bismarck, North Dakota for 37 years began his journey to the spirit world on Friday. He was 74
Arts & Entertainment
SULPHUR, Okla. – The 12th annual Artesian Arts Festival, a daylong celebration of First American art and culture, is set 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday, June 7, at the Artesian Plaza.
Kathleen DuVal, Ph.D. ’01, won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Random House, 2024). Prize winners were announced on May 5.
Health
Environment
The Osage Minerals Council proudly announces the final dismissal of the Hayes II litigation, ending nearly a decade-long legal battle that posed a serious threat to oil and gas production within the Osage Mineral Estate. Originally filed in 2016, the case challenged the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ (BIA) National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review of two mineral leases. On May 5, 2025, the Federal District Court issued a judgment officially dismissing the case.
Leaders and environmental experts from the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa recently delivered testimony urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deny a key federal permit for Enbridge’s Line 5 reroute.