'Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West'

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Dec 2, 2020

Lauren Redniss is known for her work in visual nonfiction and in 2016, she received the coveted MacArthur "Genius" Grant. Her writing spans biography, cultural history, and natural history, and her new book is no exception. Titled, Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West, the book looks at the fight over Oak Flat, located within Arizona's Tonto National Forest and held sacred by the San Carlos Apache Tribe. The land is being sought out by a multi-national mining company as the site for a new copper mine.

 

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