Oak Flat / Redniss, Lauren

"[This] book follows the fortunes of two families with profound connections to [Oak Flat]: 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"--Publisher.

Examines the true story of the high-elevation mesa known as Oak Flat, a sacred Apache site in southeastern Arizona where the San Carlos tribe conducts its Sunrise Ceremony, a coming-of-age ritual for Apache girls. Through interview transcripts and illustrations the author tells of how this San Carlos community has been fighting against the U.S. government and two massive mining companies to keep Oak Flat from being destroyed over its vast copper reserves.