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Color photograph of an Emory Oak grove at Oak Flat. Please credit: Russ McSpadden, Center for Biological Diversity. Image is available for media use.
“New Poll: Arizonans Overwhelmingly Oppose Destruction of #OakFlat for Resolution Copper Mine” —
By @biologicaldiversity.org @peccarynotpig.bsky.social
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Right now, a critical decision is pending to determine whether the Trump admin. can move forward with transfer thousands of acres of the Tonto — including #OakFlat — to foreign mining giant #ResolutionCopper for a massive open-pit copper mine.
Supporters in the U.S. can help ➡️ bit.ly/4qIqTJ9
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Color photos in collage of Western Apache young women at the sacred waters of Oak Flat, including a 'Protect Oak Flat' poster in black & white with blue lettering.
Color photograph of the Apache Stronghold advocates speaking and holding signs stating "Protect Oak Flat' & 'Do Not Enter, Sacred Land' & 'Stop Resolution Copper Mine' on a stage on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol after their 'Caravan to D.C.' in July 2015, the summer after the U.S. Congress passed an 11th hour rider to the defense appropriations bill slipped in by Arizona's U.S. Senators John McCain & Sen. Jeff Flake in December 2014.
Vandals strike at leader of Apache Stronghold at #OakFlat
"The incident is the latest in a series of vandalism and harassment acts against the group protesting a proposed copper mine at Oak Flat."
www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
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‘Future of Arizona's #OakFlat faces pivotal day in Phoenix courtroom’
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Media Advisory: 9th Circuit to Hear 3 Appeals Wednesday Challenging #OakFlat Land Exchange
Purpose of the public land giveaway to Rio Tinto & BHP: a massive copper mine that would destroy a desert oasis & sacred site of #Indigenous peoples. Hrg details here:
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Poster of a color photograph of a young Western Apache woman in traditional black, white, blue & yellow beaded Apache dress, with red face paint & rawhide headband with abalone shell. Banner on poster header reads: “Save Oak Flat.”
Protect #OakFlat !
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‘Grijalva comes out swinging against Resolution copper mine with new bill’
“Measure would block Arizona mine & protect Oak Flat, a site sacred to the Apache”
Protect #OakFlat
www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
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"After finally being sworn in following a historic seven-week delay, Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva is using her first legislative act to fulfill a campaign promise she made to tribes in Arizona and across Indian Country." #OakFlat www.kjzz.org/tribal-natur...
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#Mining #OakFlat, however, would eventually transform the landscape, creating what geologists say would be a vast crater. To prevent this, the tribe & other opponents of the mine have filed multiple lawsuits & tried unsuccessfully to get one of the cases heard before #SCOTUS. A federal appeals […]
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The company #ResolutionCopper believes there are 20 million tons of #copper under #OakFlat that could supply up to ¼ of the US copper demand over 40 years. At today’s prices, experts say that much copper would be worth about $200 billion. The company asserts it will create more than a thousand […]
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What worried many of those who came to this mesa in mountainous southern #Arizona in early October was the very real possibility that this Sunrise Dance might be the last one at #OakFlat.
Oak Flat sits on one of North America’s largest undeveloped deposits of #copper. The mineral is used in […]
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The girl danced for hours in knee-deep water as slanting rain pelted her slight frame weighed down by a sodden buckskin dress. Each step…closer to the end of a ritual that…signified a beginning.
Several days earlier, Lozen Brown-Lopez arrived at the top of #OakFlat. She was 11 […]
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Reporters Dana Hedgpeth & Erin Patrick O’Connor of @washingtonpost.com were invited to observe the Sunrise Dance. They spent 4 days camping in heavy rain & flood waters to document a ceremony that is rarely seen by people who are not members of the Apache tribes:
Protect #OakFlat
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First introduced by her father in 2015, the landmark bill would repeal the 2014 controversial National Defense Authorization Act rider that handed over 2,422 acres of Arizona’s Tonto National Forest, including the sacred site of #OakFlat (Chi’chil Biłdagoteel), to a foreign mining corporation.
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As her first bill in Congress, Rep. Adelita Grijalva is presenting the Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act.
Her father, Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva, defended the Apache sacred #OakFlat throughout his career, and she is continuing that tradition.
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I Will Defend the Rights of Native Nations #OakFlat #ApacheStronghold
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Poster of a color photograph of a young Western Apache woman in traditional black, white, blue & yellow beaded Apache dress, with red face paint & rawhide headband with abalone shell. Banner on poster header reads: “Save Oak Flat.”
Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit org:
Protect #OakFlat
Homepage: www.apache-stronghold.com
2025 News: www.apache-stronghold.com/2025-press-r...
Instagram:
www.instagram.com/protectoakfl...
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Indigenous tribes, primarily the San Carlos Apache Tribe and the grassroots group Apache Stronghold, have played a central role in attempting to halt the attack on #OakFlat through extensive legal battles, political advocacy, and public protests. Their efforts are ongoing.
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2/2: “….Their absence is not only deeply painful — it’s strategic malpractice. If the court is already expanding religious freedom in sweeping terms, progressive justices should be using that very doctrine to protect Native peoples whose traditions predate the Constitution itself.”
Protect #OakFlat
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“Sacred Apache land 'on death row' in standoff with foreign mining titans —
Tribal members in Arizona are fighting to protect a piece of land they consider their ‘Mount Sinai.’”
Protect #OakFlat
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncn...
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IMAGE 1: Grove of Emory Oaks at Chi'Chil Biłdagoteel National Historic District & Western Apache Traditional Cultural Property. Photograph by Russ McSpadden / Center for Biological Diversity, from “The Mine at Oak Flat: A Timeline of Government Bad Faith” by Asa Burroughs, Moyers On Democracy (December 29, 2020). Available online at https://billmoyers.com/story/the-mine-at-oak-flat-a-timeline-of-a- government-bad-faith/
Some of the supporters visiting the campground at the Western Apache sacred place of Oak Flat, holding signs saying “Protect Oak Flat.”
Yes, indeed!
And among the other indigenous scared places that needs to be protected again, too, as you know (thank you!), is #OakFlat
Many prayers…. 🙏 ✨
www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/oa...
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@rmitchrandall.bsky.social: The #OakFlat mining project is a proposed copper mine by Resolution Copper. It would become one of the most significant mining projects in the U.S.
The Concerned Citizens & Retired Miners Coalition say this will cause irreversible damage.
Read more: ow.ly/asxo50XrKMy
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I've got a new article up on @buddhistdoor.bsky.social -- the story of #Buddhist engagement to protect #OakFlat, sacred land for the San Carlos Apache in #Arizona
#sociallyengagedbuddhism
#plumvillage
#ThichNhatHanh
www.buddhistdoor.net/features/bud...
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BDG feature: Buddhist Solidarity with Apache Stronghold
🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/3a5yybz2
#Buddhism #Interfaith #Activism #EngagedBuddhism #OakFlat #IndigenousRights #NativeAmerican #IndigenousPeople #Ecology #ReligiousFreedom
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‘From Utah to China, where in the world could Arizona copper sitting under an Apache holy site go?’
“The American public is just getting screwed here” —
Protect #OakFlat
www.kjzz.org/tribal-natur...
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From Utah to China, where in the world could Arizona copper sitting under an #Apache holy site go? www.kjzz.org/tribal-natur...
#OakFlat
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The US Supreme Court today [October 6, 2025] has refused to reconsider Apache legal efforts to stop the copper mine project at sacred #OakFlat -- Apache Stronghold coyotegulch.blog/2025/10/10/t...
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Protect Oak Flat #ApacheStrongHold #oakflat #indigenouslivesmatter #ilm #sacredground #Apache #indigenousamerica please share everywhere. We have to stop the strip mine!
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