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Protect Oak Flat

Please join us standing against the proposed destruction of Oak Flat. This Apache “pathway to the Creator” was given away in an 11th-hour land swap to Rio Tinto Mining, as part of the Defense Budget—without the Apache people or larger public’s awareness. The second largest riparian area in the United States, the land was originally saved from mining by Eisenhower. The UK/Australian mining concern has made large campaign contributions the two Arizona senators who effected the swap. If the mining is allowed to go through, “pristine areas and a fragile ecosystem would be forever desecrated by the implosion caused from the mining extraction process and it would leach into the water” and “all access to the sacred springs and Ceremonial Grounds” would be lost.

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Learn more...

• AZ Daily Star: Don’t Let Late-Night Rider Trample Apache Sacred Ground
  
  
• Indian Country Today: Hundreds Gather at Oak Flat to Fight for Sacred Apache Land
  
  
• The New York Times: Selling Off Apache Holy Land
  
  
• Arizona Daily Star: Apache Tribe Distressed By Privatization of Sacred Land
  
  
• Center for Responsive Politics: Jeff Flake and John McCain — Career Contributions From Mining Industry
  
  
• Huffington Post: Defending Oak Flats
  
  
• Walk to Save Oak Flat
  
  

Oak Flat. Credit: Sky Jacobs.