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Baptists join call to protect Native American rights


Baptists join call to protect Native American rights
July 23, 2021
This June 15, 2015 file photo, shows the town of Superior, Ariz., with its once-bustling mining operations and derelict smelter tower in the background. The mountainous land near Superior is known as Oak Flat or Chi chil Bildagoteel. It s where Apaches have harvested medicinal plants, held coming-of-age ceremonies, and gathered acorns for generations. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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Fellowship Southwest and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Texas were among the Baptist groups who endorsed an interfaith appeal to President Joe Biden, asking him to intervene in an Arizona land-swap based on religious liberty arguments. ....

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Biden Administration Says Controversial Oak Flat Land Swap Should Proceed


For years, two Australian mining companies, Rio Tinto and BHP, have sought to build a massive copper mine in Oak Flat, a region of the Tonto National Forest east of Phoenix that is considered sacred by the San Carlos Apache Tribe and other regional Native American tribes. The proposal, which was approved by Congress in 2014, involves swapping 2,422 acres of federally protected forest land in that area for over 5,000 acres of private land and constructing a roughly mile-wide crater to extract copper deposits located underneath Oak Flat. Critics of the project argue that it will be an environmental disaster and decimate indigenous sacred sites. ....

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