Tribal Nations and Native organizations ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to recognize that Religious Freedom Restoration Act protections do prevent a foreign mining company from destroying a sacred place the Apache call Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, which translates into English as “Oak Flat.”
Bay Mills Indian Community fights a proposed oil pipeline tunnel, which would run through their sacred homelands and impact communities, local businesses, and the environment.
Tribal Nations across the Great Lakes region asked the United States, as their treaty partner and ally, to break its silence and file a brief against the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline’s trespass on the Bad River Band’s land.