#Apache Stronghold Defends #OakFlat in Federal Court

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, March 22, 2023

Pasadena, California - “Apache Wendsler Noise said the arguments heard in the Ninh Circuit Court show the U.S. government’s attempts of erasure, erasure of the people and their connection to the land, erasure of their right to pray in their sacred place at Oak Flat.

“‘This country is a corporate country. It is not even thinking about our children, the earth, the things that give us life,’ Nosie said after Tuesday’s rehearing the federal court case.

“Nosie urged Native people to be part of the spiritual struggle. He said if their leaders only care about money, then they are on the wrong road, the that the spiritual road is the one to be on. He urged tribal leaders to tell the truth.

"'Now we know why Biden hasn’t helped, anybody hasn’t helped, because that is not their priority, of the people.'"

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"The #ApacheStronghold with #Indigenous allies and US and international supporters have tirelessly been working to stop a nearly 8-year-long process to exchange Oak Flat, a 2,200-acre site in #TontoNationalForest, to #ResolutionCopper, a subsidiary of #RioTinto and #BHP, which plans to construct one of the largest copper and ore #mining pits in the world."

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Protect #ChichilBildagoteel (#OakFlat)

"The #ApacheStronghold with #Indigenous allies and US and international supporters have tirelessly been working to stop a nearly 8-year-long process to exchange Oak Flat, a 2,200-acre site in #TontoNationalForest, to #ResolutionCopper, a subsidiary of #RioTinto and #BHP, which plans to construct one of the largest copper and ore mining pits in the world."

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