SACATON -- Back in the 1950s, St. Michael's Mission served members of the Gila River Indian Reservation as a place of worship and a gathering site. But the roof leaked during the infrequent rains, and because the building was made of adobe, it began deteriorating so badly that those in charge decided to knock it ...

More than 80 years ago, the federal government erected a series of stone teepees on the Gila River Reservation near Sacaton. There was probably a reason for it at the time, but today nobody knows for certain why they were built.

In a small park in Sacaton on the Gila River Indian Reservation, a bronze statue of a young man wearing a military uniform stands next to a bas-relief plaque affixed to a tiled wall. It is a replication of Ira Hayes. He was a U.S. Marine. And a reluctant hero. The plaque depicts six men ...