Arizona Apaches travel 2,000 miles to protest copper mine on sacred site

July 26, 2015

After Congress gave land held sacred by Apaches to a private mining company, tribe finds fresh lawmaker support

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Arizona Apaches travel 2,000 miles to protest copper mine on sacred site

For the San Carlos Apaches in Arizona, Oak Flat is sacred, ancestral land. It sits on top of one of the world’s largest deposits of copper ore. In December a controversial land deal opened Oak Flat for copper mining by a private company. The deal — inserted into the must-pass 2015 National Defense Authorization Act — caught opponents off guard. But as Adam May reports in this excerpt from America Tonight, the Apaches haven’t given up their vow to protect the site just yet.


 

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