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(via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rss-parrot.net/u/bsnorrell.blogspot.com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bsnorrell.blogspot.com</span></a></span> ) </p><p>Feds Charge Ahead with Plan to Destroy <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> poised to consider <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ApacheStronghold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ApacheStronghold</span></a>’s appeal </p><p>By Becket Law, Censored News, April 17, 2025</p><p>WASHINGTON – "The U.S. government today announced that it is forging ahead with plans to transfer a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SacredSite</span></a> to a multinational mining giant in as few as 60 days, despite a<br>federal lawsuit challenging the action as illegal.</p><p>"In Apache Stronghold v. United States, Apache Stronghold—a coalition of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Apaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apaches</span></a>, other Native peoples, and non-Native allies—sued to stop the federal government from transferring Oak Flat to<br>Resolution Copper, a Chinese-owned mining company that plans to turn the site into a massive mining crater, ending Apache religious practices forever. </p><p>"The government has announced it will now forge ahead with the transfer even though the case is currently under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.</p><p>"Since time immemorial, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternApaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WesternApaches</span></a> and other Native peoples have gathered at Oak Flat, outside of present-day <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SuperiorAZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SuperiorAZ</span></a>, for sacred religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Known in Apache as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, Oak Flat is listed in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NationalRegisterOfHistoricPlaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalRegisterOfHistoricPlaces</span></a> and has been protected from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> and other harmful practices for decades.<br>These protections were targeted in December 2014 when a last-minute provision was slipped into a must-pass defense bill [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NDAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NDAA</span></a>] authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to the Resolution Copper company. </p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a> now plans to turn the sacred site into a two-mile-wide and 1,100-foot-deep crater.</p><p>"The majority owner of Resolution Copper, Rio Tinto, sparked international outrage when it deliberately destroyed 46,000-year-old Indigenous rock shelters at one of Australia’s most significant cultural sites.</p><p>" 'The feds are barreling ahead to give Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, even as the Supreme Court considers whether to hear the case,' said Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counsel at Becket. 'This makes the stakes crystal clear: if the Court doesn’t act now, Oak Flat could be transferred and destroyed before justice can be served.' "</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/feds-charge-ahead-with-plan-to-destroy.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04</span><span class="invisible">/feds-charge-ahead-with-plan-to-destroy.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChichilBi%C5%82dagoteel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChichilBiłdagoteel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMine</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TontoNationalForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TontoNationalForest</span></a></p>