Getting involved with local groups already working on the “Protect Oak Flat” movement, we helped raise awareness through the arts and support those on the frontlines. Above is an image for a screen print that was distributed during some of the Snood City hosted events. I offered my skills in Graphic Design to aid in the creation of flyers, posters, and Zine

Oak Flat is an area about an hour east of Phoenix that is a sacred site known to Apaches as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel.

Home to a diverse desert ecosystem, it’s also currently federal land within the Tonto National Forest. In December 2014, in the 11th hour, Arizona Senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake attached a land-exchange rider to the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act Bill. The bill included the Oak Flat land exchange which gave multinational mining company Resolution Copper ( Rio Tinto & BHP ) this area, to build one of the world’s largest copper mines.

The mine would permanently decimate Oak Flat and surrounding desert features including the contamination of precious aquifers.

Apache and mining-reform activists had been successfully fighting the proposal for nearly a decade.

For more info visit: Apache Stronghold