{"id":16349,"date":"2013-09-16T15:48:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T20:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=16349"},"modified":"2013-09-16T15:50:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T20:50:02","slug":"longhorn-mountain-limestone-mine-has-stalled-tribe-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/09\/16\/longhorn-mountain-limestone-mine-has-stalled-tribe-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Longhorn Mountain Limestone Mine Has Stalled, Tribe Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15691\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Longhorn Mountain near Coopertown, Okla. has major deposits of limestone and cedar Kiowa Indians use for ceremonies.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/longhorn-pan.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15691\" alt=\"Longhorn Mountain near Coopertown, Okla. has major deposits of limestone and cedar Kiowa Indians use for ceremonies.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/longhorn-pan-300x63.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/longhorn-pan-300x63.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/longhorn-pan-500x106.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/longhorn-pan-150x32.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/longhorn-pan.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Wertz \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longhorn Mountain near Cooperton, Okla. has major deposits of limestone and cedar Kiowa Indians use for ceremonies.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>In August, tribal members and farmers near Cooperton were <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/08\/01\/oklahomas-kiowa-tribe-says-gravel-mining-will-ruin-sacred-mountain\/\">worried that limestone mining was about to start<\/a> on Longhorn Mountain.<\/p><p>The mountain is a sacred site for the Kiowa Tribe, which uses the mountain as a temple for vision quests and a source of ceremonial cedar.<\/p><p>Material Service Corporation has had a permit to mine the site for nearly a decade, and the Cushing-based company has leased land from several property owners. The tribe told StateImpact they were blindsided by the mine, and, conversely, the company&#8217;s attorney says it didn&#8217;t know the mountain was sacred to the Kiowas.<\/p><p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/08\/15\/longhorn-mountain-sacred-kiowa-spiritual-site-and-future-limestone-mine\/\">farmer who lives less than a mile from the mountain told StateImpact his family<\/a> \u2014 which wrote a letter to the Oklahoma Department of Mines, protesting the operation \u2014 would likely be forced to move once mining started.<\/p><p>In May 2013, locals heard Material Services was hiring \u2014 and assumed mining was imminent. But, so far, no mining has started on Longhorn Mountain, <a href=\"http:\/\/kgou.org\/post\/return-longhorn-mountain-update\">KGOU&#8217;s Susan Shannon reports<\/a>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere&#8217;s no equipment being moved there,&#8221; Kiowa historian Phil &#8220;Joe Fish&#8221; DuPoint tells KGOU, a StateImpact partner. &#8220;Actually nothing has really started yet as far as bringing in equipment to start making roads to start the mining.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cThey said would want to start in mid-August and we was kind of shook up about it, had to start moving the ball fast and everything, but we&#8217;ve been going out there, oh I&#8217;m going to say at least every two weeks to see if there&#8217;s any kind of movement going on out there,\u201d Dupoint said.<\/p><p>\u201cSo I don&#8217;t know how much longer it will be, whatever but we&#8217;re still in the process of&#8230;we&#8217;re ready I guess.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August, tribal members and farmers near Cooperton were worried that limestone mining was about to start on Longhorn Mountain.The mountain is a sacred site for the Kiowa Tribe, which uses the mountain as a temple for vision quests and a source of ceremonial cedar.Material Service Corporation has had a permit to mine the site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":15691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[533,556,447,508],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16354,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16349\/revisions\/16354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}