Residents of a town in central Arizona are engaged in a tug of war with Native American groups over a huge copper mine that s been proposed on national forest land. Those who support the mine at Oak …
Residents of a small Arizona town are grappling with history colliding with industry in their backyard. Native American groups and a mining company are engaged in a tug-of-war over a proposed copper mine on national forest land.
Oak Flat or Chi’chil Bildagoteel about 70 miles east of Phoenix, is an Apache sacred site where the region’s Native American peoples gather to pray and perform coming-of-age ceremonies and
Native Americans believe the mine will desecrate Oak Flat, a site for coming-of-age rituals for Apache women, healing sweat lodge ceremonies, and more.