A work of visual nonfiction by Lauren Redniss, published in 2020, following three generations of a San Carlos Apache family and their opposition to a proposed copper mine at Oak Flat (Chi'chil Bildagoteel), a site the San Carlos Apache Tribe and neighboring nations hold sacred, where Apache girls undergo the coming-of-age Sunrise Ceremony. The book combines Redniss's own illustrated art with reporting on the decades-long legal and legislative fight over the land, including the federal land-transfer act that would open Oak Flat to mining. It names the site's religious standing and the litigation over it without describing the Sunrise Ceremony's own ritual content.
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Religious Subject MatterOak Flat (Chi'chil Bildagoteel), a site the San Carlos Apache Tribe and neighboring nations hold sacred and where Apache girls undergo the coming-of-age Sunrise Ceremony, and the decades-long legal fight over its transfer for copper mining. The book names the site's religious standing without describing the Sunrise Ceremony's own ritual content. 2 Scholarly ReceptionNamed a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice; Eliza Griswold's review there called it brilliant and virtuosic, praising Redniss as a master storyteller. Redniss is a MacArthur Fellow and National Book Award finalist. 2 Production
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An outside-authored account of the community's legal fight over a sacred site, not a work of or by Western Apache religious authority.
Source Review of Oak Flat by Lauren Redniss (New York Times Book Review)Eliza Griswold
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Source Oak Flat by Lauren Redniss (Penguin Random House Catalog)
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1. Oak Flat by Lauren Redniss (Penguin Random House Catalog)
Random HouseOriginated In: United States, Stored origin-place property on this entity, cited to this source: United StatesView the Source 2. Review of Oak Flat by Lauren Redniss (New York Times Book Review)
Eliza Griswold, The New York Times Book Review
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