To work around this, he and his colleagues took a different approach: instead of artifacts ... extracting copper was labor-intensive. Native Americans hammered it out of the rock—hard, dusty ...

Even though the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has highly specific guidelines for repatriating artifacts, several experts in the Native American community said the process ...

Often overlooked, this Native American site in ... Singleton chose artifacts representing the different nations and ritual importance. Embossed copper plates, wooden sculptures, thousands of ...

Although it was valuable, the Native Americans were a neolithic culture, Klingelhofer said, and they did not have the knowledge of smelting copper — melting it and turning it into a thin wire.

The 44th Annual Native American Indian Artifact Show took place today in ... Over 80 tables were filled with points, stone, bone and copper from dates ranging back to 50,000 years ago.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a plea from a group of Native American activists and supporters to block a copper mining company from destroying an Apache religious site. The high court rejected ...

The justices left in place a lower-court decision that allows the transfer of land in central Arizona known as Oak Flat that ...

Competing interests have ignited a tug of war between the town of about 3,000 people who want a huge copper mine built there for its economic benefits, and Native American groups that consider the ...