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Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
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ISBN10: 0399589724
ISBN13: 9780399589720
Publisher: Random House
Published: Nov 17 2020
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.88
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780399589720
Publisher: Random House
Published: Nov 17 2020
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.88
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation, by MacArthur Genius and National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, the acclaimed author of Thunder & Lightning Brilliant . . . virtuosic . . . a master storyteller of a new order.--Eliza Griswold, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS Oak Flat is a serene high-elevation mesa that sits above the southeastern Arizona desert, fifteen miles to the west of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. For the San Carlos tribe, Oak Flat is a holy place, an ancient burial ground and religious site where Apache girls celebrate the coming-of-age ritual known as the Sunrise Ceremony. In 1995, a massive untapped copper reserve was discovered nearby. A decade later, a law was passed transferring the area to a private company, whose planned copper mine will wipe Oak Flat off the map--sending its natural springs, petroglyph-covered rocks, and old-growth trees tumbling into a void. Redniss's deep reporting and haunting artwork anchor this mesmerizing human narrative. Oak Flat tells the story of a race-against-time struggle for a swath of American land, which pits one of the poorest communities in the United States against the federal government and two of the world's largest mining conglomerates. The book follows the fortunes of two families with profound connections to the contested site: the Nosies, an Apache family whose teenage daughter is an activist and leader in the Oak Flat fight, and the Gorhams, a mining family whose patriarch was a sheriff in the lawless early days of Arizona statehood. The still-unresolved Oak Flat conflict is ripped from today's headlines, but its story resonates with foundational American themes: the saga of westward expansion, the resistance and resilience of Native peoples, and the efforts of profiteers to control the land and unearth treasure beneath it while the lives of individuals hang in the balance.
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