Evaluation of Scholarly Sources

I used JSTOR to search "environment" AND "protection" AND "mining", and narrowed the search to just the disciplines American Indian Studies, Anthropology, Environmental Science, Law, and Political Science.

The two most relevant seeming articles that I found were: Sacred Sites, Disputed Rights, and Property Rights and Sacred Sites: Federal Regulatory Responses to American Indian Religious Claims on Public Land. I'm going to go through both sources and evaluate:

1. What is its purpose?
2. How and where is it published?
3. What kinds of sources does it cite?
4. Who is the author?
5. Who is its intended audience?
6. How did I find it?

I'll start with Sacred Sites, Disputed Rights:

1. Its purpose is to describe some of the hardships that Native American groups have faced when places sacred to them are exploited for economic gain (by the government, mining companies, etc.). It examines one specific example of the San Carlos Apache Tribe and the University of Arizona trying to build an observatory on top of Mt. Graham , a sacred site for the tribe. 
2. It is published as an article in a Journal called "Human Rights"
3. There are no citations, which indicates that it's more of a popular than academic source. I am going to include it because it is very relevant to my topic and I want to keep it for myself for future reference.
4. the author is Jenny Hontz, a journalist for the NY times, LA times, Newsweek, and other publications.
5. I think that the intended audience is the general public. The language is easily understood and nothing is too academic.
6. I found it by searching JSTOR for "Native American Sacred Sites.

Now for Property Rights and Sacred Sites:

1. Its purpose is to explore the relationship between public lands, Native American Sacred Sites, Law, and economic interests for development. 
2. It is published as an article in the Yale Law Journal.
3. It cites tons of sources at the bottom of each page. Here are some examples:



Webb, Michaela "Screen Shot Citations" 9/3/2015 via JSTOR

4. The author is Marcia Yablon. An internet search shows that she is an associate professor of law at University of South Carolina with law degrees from Dartmouth and Yale.
5. The intended audience are academics in law and others for whom the content is relevant.