Federal Court Delivers a Reprieve to Apache Members Seeking to Save a Sacred Site
'A step forward for truth, protection of our religion, and sustainability for all life.' That's how Apache activist Wendsler Noise characterized a ...
'A step forward for truth, protection of our religion, and sustainability for all life.' That's how Apache activist Wendsler Noise characterized a late-November decision by a federal appeals court to rehear arguments to protect sacred Native land in Arizona from destruction by an international mining conglomerate.The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated an earlier decision by a three-judge panel to allow the federal government to go ahead with the planned handover of nearly 2,500 acres of Tonto National Forest Service land to Resolution Copper, owned by two of the largest mining companies in the world — Australian BHP and British Rio Tinto.