Oak Flat : a fight for sacred land in the American West /
Oak Flat : a fight for sacred land in the American West /
Lauren Redniss.
- First edition.
- 281 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-281)
Oak Flat tells the story of a race-against-time struggle for a swath of American land, which pits one of the poorest communities in the United States against the federal government and two of the world's largest mining conglomerates. The book follows the fortunes of two families with profound connections to the contested site: the Nosies, an Apache family whose teenage daughter is an activist and leader in the Oak Flat fight, and the Gorhams, a mining family whose patriarch was a sheriff in the lawless early days of Arizona statehood.
0399589724 9780399589720
Apache Indians--Land tenure--Arizona.
Apache Indians--Rites and ceremonies.
Apache Indians--Government relations--Arizona--21st century.
Apache Indians--Social conditions--Arizona--21st century.
Copper miners--Arizona.
Land use--Environmental aspects.
Land use--Law and legislation--Arizona.
Land use--Religious aspects.
Mining corporations--Arizona.
Protest movements--Arizona.
E99 .A6 / R433 2020
979.0049725
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-281)
Oak Flat tells the story of a race-against-time struggle for a swath of American land, which pits one of the poorest communities in the United States against the federal government and two of the world's largest mining conglomerates. The book follows the fortunes of two families with profound connections to the contested site: the Nosies, an Apache family whose teenage daughter is an activist and leader in the Oak Flat fight, and the Gorhams, a mining family whose patriarch was a sheriff in the lawless early days of Arizona statehood.
0399589724 9780399589720
Apache Indians--Land tenure--Arizona.
Apache Indians--Rites and ceremonies.
Apache Indians--Government relations--Arizona--21st century.
Apache Indians--Social conditions--Arizona--21st century.
Copper miners--Arizona.
Land use--Environmental aspects.
Land use--Law and legislation--Arizona.
Land use--Religious aspects.
Mining corporations--Arizona.
Protest movements--Arizona.
E99 .A6 / R433 2020
979.0049725