Native Organizers Alliance ● RE: Sign to save Oak Flat from greedy mining corporation

 

Patricia, We must protect Oak Flat (Chí’chil Biłdagoteel), a deeply sacred place on federal land.   After years of community organizing and fighting alongside Tribes to block a federal transfer of this land to a mining corporation, unfortunately the U.S. government transferred the land last month. The planned mine would obliterate this sacred place into a two-mile-long crater. Dr. Wendsler Nosie of Apache Stronghold said last year that, “To destroy Oak Flat would erase our Native identity, our culture, and our connection to the Creator… [and] irreversibly harm the environment.” But the fight isn’t over. Before constructing the mine, the corporation Resolution Copper needs access to over 8,000 acres of nearby Arizona state trust land to build a facility that would store about 1.4 billion tons of toxic mining waste. Now it’s up to Arizona state leaders, including the Arizona State Land Department, to decide whether Resolution Copper can access state trust land. Please sign on to demand Arizona state leaders deny Resolution Copper’s applications to use state trust land for the mine that will destroy Oak Flat. SIGN THE PETITION NOW Hawwih (“thank you” in Caddo) for taking action. All public lands exist on Indigenous homelands, and with your support, Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund will continue fighting for sacred places and for Tribes’ constitutional and inherent right to co-manage their homelands. Judith LeBlanc (Caddo) Executive Director POWER OUR MOVEMENT

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