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Apache Stronghold, a San Carlos Apache nonprofit, has sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Arizona federal court to block a land swap that would allow Rio Tinto PLC and BHP Billiton to mine copper and allegedly dump toxic waste near land sacred to the Apache tribe.

Defend Chich’il Bildagoteel! Apache clans and over 300 Indigenous nations are organizing to protect Chich’il Bildagoteel, the Oak Flat site in southeastern Arizona, from devastating copper mining extraction.  Apache clan members and supporters rally to defend Chich’il Bildagoteel (Oak Flat) in December 2019. Credit: Sandra Rambler/Censored News The mining was given a federal go-ahead by passage of the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and “Conservation” Act, included in the 2015 Natio...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Op-Ed: Trump is making a last-minute push to turn a sacred Arizona oasis into a copper pit [Los Angeles Times] In the spring of 2018, a team of observers trained to catalog native historical sites in the Tonto National Forest visited an area of springs near Oak Flat, about 60 miles east of Phoenix. They were searching for a cluster of petroglyphs. The group reached a small cave, where one of the monitors, an Apache elder, began to pray. As a young monitor later wr...