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The Topeka Blazers Track Club make it to nationals every year.
This year is no exception. Team members will spend the next few weeks in preparation for the AAU Junior Olympics, which will be July 28 to Aug. 7 in Houston.
For this group of youths, track can be their ticket to college, carving a competitive edge, losing or winning. This small community includes athlete making their way to the top, supportive parental figures and a coach with a passion to raise the quality of life for generations of runners.
The Blazers have 29 youths on team and 28 made it to nationals.
“I’m not going to nationals because I missed both of the qualifying meets, said Aubreona Torres-Hill, 13.
Closing a portal to the Creator : fresh setback for attempt to prevent destruction of US holy land by miner Annette McGivney © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Ross D Franklin/AP
Efforts to prevent a sacred Native American site from being destroyed by a copper mine received a setback yesterday, when a federal judge rejected Apache tribal members’ request to halt the site’s transfer to a a multi-national mining company.
While US district judge Steven Logan acknowledged that the mine would “close off a portal to the Creator forever and will completely devastate the Western Apaches’ lifeblood”, he said the activist group Apache Stronghold lacked legal standing in the case since it represented tribal individuals rather than a tribal government.
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Copper Mine Would Crater Sacred Site, Native Groups Say
Law360 (February 11, 2021, 9:42 PM EST) Native American rights advocates on Thursday backed a San Carlos Apache nonprofit s suit opposing the Resolution Copper mine project, telling an Arizona federal judge that the federal government s planned land swap for the project would lead to the site s destruction and the group s loss of any ability to practice their religion there.
The Morning Star Institute, the Multicultural Initiative for Community Advancement Group and White Mountain Apache tribal official Ramon Riley filed an amicus brief Wednesday supporting nonprofit Apache Stronghold s suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture over the joint Rio Tinto PLC and BHP Billiton mine project, in particular claims.
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