• December 16, 2024 - Supreme Court Update

• December 13, 2024 - Supreme Court Update

• December 9, 2024 - Supreme Court Update

• December 6, 2024 - Supreme Court Update

  Thank you to all of our supporters who are continuing to pray about our Supreme Court petition to protect Oak Flat. Our case was not mentioned in today’s Supreme Court orders list. However, we may get a decision by the Court to take our case by Monday 7:30 a.m. Central time. We will update you again on Monday morning. We take this as an encouraging sign that the Court is devoting extra time to our case and giving it careful examination. We ask all of our supporters to continue praying that the Justices will agree to hear our case and protect Oak Flat—just as the sacred places of other faiths have long been protected throughout the country. Thank you again for your support.

• November 22, 2024 - Supreme Court Update

• November 14, 2024 - Watch Notre Dame halftime commercial “Fighting for Religious Liberty” during the Virginia Cavaliers and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish game that will kick off at 3:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, November 16, from Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana. The Virginia vs. Notre Dame game will air exclusively on NBC and stream simultaneously on Peacock on November 16 on NBC. READ MORE HERE

• For Immediate Release:  November 7, 2024 | Becket Media Contact, Ryan Colby, E-mail: media@becketlaw.org, Phone: 202-349-7219
  Apache Stronghold urges Supreme Court to protect Oak Flat
  Federal government, international mining giant claim authority to destroy Native American sacred site

• For Immediate Release:  November 1, 2024, Apache Stronghold and our team of attorney’s will be filing our response to the reply briefs

  Dr. Wendsler Nosie Sr. will be traveling to Washington D.C. for the filing on November 6th. Apache Stronghold will be in prayer during this time. Wendsler will be praying from Sunrise to Sunset in Washington D.C. He is calling on all people to join him in prayer. For more information, those wanting to join with him, please contact Apache Stronghold.

• For Immediate Release:  October 16, 2024 | Becket Media Contact:  Ryan Colby 202-349-7219 media@becketlaw.org

  Tribal nations, Catholic bishops among diverse coalition urging Supreme Court to protect Oak Flat

• For Immediate Release:  September 10, 2024 | Contact: apache.stronghold@gmail.com

  Apache Stronghold Journey of Prayer to the Supreme Court to Stop the Shattering of Human Existence & to Protect Mother Earth

• September 10, 2024, The Apache Stronghold has arrived in Washington, DC 

  The Apache Stronghold has arrived in Washington, DC after two months following in the footsteps of the Spirit from the West on this Journey of Prayer to deliver their appeal to the Supreme Court to protect their religion, their sacred land, but also to protect all of humanity’s spirituality and the earth that is Mother to us all whether we recognize it or not.

• September 1, 2024, Prayer Journey to Supreme Court, Montgomery, AL: 

• August 30, 2024, Prayer Journey to Supreme Court, Apache Stronghold Day of Prayer

  This is an invitation to participate in the Apache Stronghold’s Day of Prayer on September 11, 2024, at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

• For Immediate Release:  August 20, 2024, Contact: apache.stronghold@gmail.com | Apache Stronghold Heads to the East  |  Media Ready Photos

• For Immediate Release:  August 9, 2024, Contact: apache.stronghold@gmail.com
  Apache Stronghold Visits Peehee Mu’huh (Thacker Pass) in the Second Stop of their Prayer Journey to the Supreme Court

• For Immediate Release:  August 4, 2024, Contact: apache.stronghold@gmail.com
  Apache Stronghold Continues Journey of Prayer to the Supreme Court to Stop the Shattering of Human Existence & to Protect Mother Earth  | Prayer Journey Schedule

• June 2, 2024, Southern Region, Workers Uninted, Press Release, SEIU Workers United Southern Region Unanimously Passes Resolution in Support of Apache Religious Freedom and the Protection of Sacred Lands like Oak Flat (Pictures on page 2)

• For Immediate Release:  May 14, 2024, Becket Media Contact: Ryan Colby 202-349-7219 media@becketlaw.org

  Apache Stronghold will ask Supreme Court to save Oak Flat, Full Ninth Circuit declines to rehear case, teeing up Supreme Court appeal Apache Stronghold will ask Supreme Court to save Oak Flat, Full Ninth Circuit declines to rehear case, teeing up Supreme Court appeal
  

  This morning we received the response from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Our request to be heard by the full 29-judge panel was denied, none of the judges requesting a vote for rehearing. The Court amended its decision to discuss a previous Supreme Court decision that hadn’t been considered, and the 9th Circuit’s decision on the case remained closely divided, 6 to 5, with five dissenting judges and over 240 pages of opinions. We have now completed the 9th Circuit appeal, and the next step is petitioning to be heard by the Supreme Court. I want to thank everyone for your endless support and prayers. I know capitalism had began as far back as when trade began. For over 500 hundred years, we indigenous people of America, have suffered equally to the rest of the world. What had started in the beginning between good and evil will again face each other. One, to protect the greatest gift god gave the world or the other.,to destroy every human life and the spirit that Mother Earth gives birth to. The question is, where will you stand in this moment?  We will all be judged. Blessings to all.

• For Immediate Release, April 15, 2024:  Becket Media Contact: Ryan Colby 202-349-7219 media@becketlaw.org

  Apache Stronghold asks 29-judge appeals court to save Oak Flat Rare request gives Ninth Circuit one more chance to protect sacred site before Supreme Court appeal  
  SEE ALSO:  Friend-of-the-court Briefs filed in Support of Apache Stronghold

• March 19, 2024: URGENT, please read!
  The time is here to join the Apache stronghold in protecting all holy and sacred places. The words you share in your Amicus briefs will be read by US Supreme Court justices. Take action to have your voice heard by joining existing briefs or creating new ones. Please call today for more information. Apache Stronghold/Save Oak Flat.
   SEE:  AMICUS BRIEF INFORMATION

*SUPPORTING APACHE STRONGHOLD AT THE U.S. SUPREME COURT*
Apache Stronghold is grateful for the outpouring of support for our efforts to protect Oak Flat. As our case heads to the Supreme Court, one way to support Apache Stronghold is for interested organizations to file an amicus brief (also called a friend-of-the-court brief) at the Supreme Court. Although the timeline is subject to change, those briefs are currently due by July 1, 2024. (This is 30 days after Apache Stronghold files its cert petition asking the Supreme Court to hear its case, which is currently due on May 30, 2024.)

If your organization is interested in participating in an amicus brief in support of Apache Stronghold, please email Leigh Brown, lbrown@becketlaw.org, and provide her with your name, contact information, and the name of your organization. Someone at Becket will respond with further details. | Legal Doc: Ninth Circuit En Banc Per Curiam Opinion in Apache Stronghold v. United States (PDF)