The Supreme Court this week declined to hear arguments in a case involving a Native American group’s attempt to stop the destruction of a centuries-old religious ritual site.
The high court refused to reconsider an appeal by Apache Stronghold, a coalition of Native Americans, seeking to prevent the federal government from transferring Oak Flat, a sacred site in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest, to a mining company.
The land, 60 miles east of Phoenix and revered by the Western Apache for centuries, is slated for destruction as part of a massive copper mining project.
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