Supreme Court Decides to Take No Action
October 6, 2025
Supreme Court Update
This morning, we received word that the Supreme Court has decided not to reconsider our case. While this decision is deeply disappointing, the fight to protect Oak Flat is far from over.
We will continue pressing our case in the lower courts. In addition to our case, three other cases are also seeking to protect Oak Flat, and the Ninth Circuit Court will hear oral arguments in those cases on January 7, 2026. We’ll also keep urging Congress, the President, and federal agencies to stop the destruction of Oak Flat and protect our ancestral sacred land.
Oak Flat deserves the same respect and protection this country has long given to other places of worship.
Wendsler Nosie Sr., responding to the Supreme Court’s decision, “First, thank you to everyone for all the hard work. You have been a blessing to us all in our country. Most importantly, deep within us we knew, but now we definitely witness the truth of this country, by the Supreme Court taking no action. What is evil created the unfairness, not just to us human beings but to all of God’s creations. When this country was founded, humans with the heart of greed worked to mute the voice of the Creator. By this undertaking, we now live with a third entity, which was created to take and destroy every blessed gift God gave us through our Mother Earth. We know this evil as Corporations, which comes from capitalism, which colonizes people. We must defend what is spiritual, holy, and God’s greatest gift to us all, our Mother. Today is a new day for me as I now take the blessing from Usen (God), to walk the footsteps of the purpose I was blessed with and no longer be a captive.”
America has shown us the government’s true intentions; we are unheard and ignored once again. Our judicial system’s voice is muted by capitalism; the ultimate destruction of Mother Earth has been given permission as if they control her; she supplies our lives, not the reverse. Such a sad reality.
We call on all people to pray, to raise their voices, and to join us in defending Mother Earth. Thank you for standing with us.