Course connections
This page pulls the class requirements into one place: the course source, peer-reviewed sources, and the three Student Learning Outcomes.
Course source
Carroll's article helps this project move away from treating Oak Flat as a conservation issue alone. His work shows that Indigenous stewardship can be about governance, territory, and sovereignty. I apply that idea to Apache Stronghold by reading the movement as land defense, not only environmental protection.
Format
The homepage map shows that sacred-site protection is not limited to one place. The rest of the site keeps the analysis focused on Oak Flat.
Research approach
Apache Stronghold and NARF provide movement and legal context. Peer-reviewed sources help analyze hearings, digital activism, survivance, and religious-freedom law.
SLO 2
The site uses Western Apache explanations of Oak Flat to describe why the place matters. It emphasizes Apache agency through organizing, testimony, ceremony, legal action, and public education.
SLO 4
Oak Flat connects sacred-site protection to settler colonialism, federal land management, religious-freedom law, environmental racism, corporate mining, and consultation.
SLO 5
The map gives context, but the main work is education: following Native-led sources, naming the harm of extraction, and showing concrete ways the movement resists.
Design choice
A map can make land look simple or empty if it is not handled carefully. This site uses pins for orientation, then points viewers back to Native-led explanations and specific sources.
Takeaway
In this case, it includes ceremony, law, testimony, coalition work, online storytelling, and refusing to let sacred land be reduced to an extractive resource.