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The entirety of a letter to Congress summarizing support of H.R. 1884 Save Oak Flat Act by a large number of conservation, indigenous, and religious groups is reposted below: Please Support H.R. 1884, The Save Oak Flat Act Dear Member of Congress, We write on behalf of the undersigned conservation, Indigenous, and religious groups representing millions of members and supporters to urge you to support H.R. 1884, the Save Oak Flat Act. This bill repeals authorization of a land exchange that would facilitate the proposed Resolution Copper Mine, a project that would result in the destruction of a Native American sacred [...]

Activists protest on Capitol Hill in July 2015 against the land swap that will turn over Oak Flat, an area in Arizona sacred to the San Carlos Apache Tribe, to a foreign copper mining company. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP/Getty Images) An hour’s drive east of Phoenix, the Sonoran Desert landscape collides with a spectacular bedrock escarpment jutting up to an elevation of 4,700 feet called Apache Leap. This place is where my ancestor warriors engaged in a pitched battle during the height of a concerted campaign in the 1870s to exterminate American Indians from our ancestral lands. U.S. Highway 60 then [...]