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These "Indian peaches" are direct descendants of peach seeds brought across the continent on the Trail of Tears. (Photo courtesy of John John Brown)

Meet the peach that traveled the Trail of Tears and the elders working to save it

On the Muscogee reservation in Oklahoma and other parts of the U.S., Native Americans are working to preserve an heirloom peach variety that's a part of their heritage and now threatened by climate change.

(Getty Images/Los Angeles Times/Wally Skalij via Grist)

The massive copper mine that could test the limits of religious freedom

"Oak Flat is like Mount Sinai to us — our most sacred site where we connect with our Creator, our faith, our families and our land," said Wendsler Noise of Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit fighting to protect the area. "We vow to appeal to the Supreme Court." 

 

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