The Apache Stronghold - Saving Oak Flats | Bioneers

Chiricahua Apache daughter and mother activists, Naelyn Pike and Vanessa Nosie, tell their story of resistance to protect sacred site, Oak Flat, from destruction by mining through the Apache Stronghold movement. This presentation took place in the Indigeneity Forum at the 2015 National Bioneers Conference. Indigeneity is a Native-led Program within Bioneers/Collective Heritage Institute that promotes indigenous knowledge and approaches to solve the earth’s most pressing environmental and social issues through respectful dialogue. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. Subscribe to the Bioneers Radio Series, available on iTunes and other podcast providers and on your local radio station. Support Bioneers today: www.bioneers.org/donate. Please join our mailing list (http://www.bioneers.org/subscribe), stay in touch via Facebook (  / bioneers.org  ) and Twitter (  / bioneers  .