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  • Supreme Court declines to stop transfer of Native American site for mining

    05/27/2025 12:52:33 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 86 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | May 27, 2025 1:12 PM EDT | Ann E. Marimow
    The justices left in place a lower-court decision that allows the transfer of land in central Arizona known as Oak Flat that is sacred to Western Apache Indians.The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland containing a Native American sacred site to a copper-mining company. The justices left in place a lower-court decision that allows the transfer of land in central Arizona known as Oak Flat. The land, which has great spiritual value to the Western Apache Indians, sits on the world’s third-largest deposit of copper ore. Justice...