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Lawsuits seek to stop mining, construction on sacred sites
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Arizona s Ga an Canyon in Oak Flat, also known as Chi chil Bildagoteel, is 65 miles east of Phoenix. Apache tribal members and their allies are fighting to stop the construction of a copper mine there. Photo by Russ McSpadden/Center for Biological Diversity
April 6 (UPI) Two disputes over sites that are sacred to Native Americans are on the docket at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
A group of Apache tribal members and their allies are fighting to stop the construction of a copper mine on a place in Arizona where Indigenous people have worshiped for centuries. ....

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