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Author Redniss, Lauren, author, illustrator. Title Oak Flat : a fight for sacred land in the American West / Lauren Redniss. Publisher New York : Random House, [2020] ©2020 Copies
ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS Bayfield nonfiction 970.01 RED AVAILABLE Lac Courte Oreilles adult nonfiction NA 979.004 RED AVAILABLE Mercer adult nonfiction 970.5 RED Social issues AVAILABLE Edition First edition. Descript 281 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-281). Summary 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. Subject Apache Indians -- Arizona -- Government relations -- 21st century. Land use -- Law and legislation -- Arizona. Land use -- Religious aspects. Apache Indians -- Rites and ceremonies. Copper miners -- Arizona. Mining corporations -- Arizona. Land use -- Environmental aspects. Apache Indians -- Arizona -- Social conditions -- 21st century. Apache Indians -- Land tenure -- Arizona. Protest movements -- Arizona. Genre Illustrated works. ISBN/ISSN 9780399589720 (hardcover) 0399589724 (hardcover) 9780399589737 (paperback)
