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Federal appeals court rules that mine can be built on sacred Apache land Oak Flat

https://fronterasdesk.org/content/1790463/federal-appeals-court-rules-mine-can-be-built-sacred-apache-land-oak-flat

The headline is biased as there is no factual history to support the "Apache Leap" legend at Oak Flat saving for one informal account of Mormon Battalion troops (circa 1846) chasing a few Apache women and children off a cliff at a place called Apache Pass, about 200 miles south of Oak Flat. 

The nearest reservation to Oak Flat is the San Carlos some 40 miles from Apache Leap.  At the time it came to being, there were no claims regarding the Oak Flats area as being sacred to anyone.  I believe that the name of the cliff there as Apache Leap created the "sacred" status in some mixing of lore between that of Apache Pass and Apache Leap, two different places.

VP

P.S.  The informal report about the Mormon Battalion comes from a trooper in a letter home.  There are no Army records about it, meaning it most likely did not happen.