San Carlos Apache Leader Seeks Senate Defeat of Copper Mine on Sacred Land
Congress is poised to give a foreign mining company 2,400 acres of national forest in Arizona that is cherished ancestral homeland to Apache natives. Controversially, the measure is attached to annual legislation that funds the US Defense Department.
This week, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees quietly attached a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would mandate the handover of a large tract of Tonto National Forest to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of the Australian-English mining company Rio Tinto, which co-owns with Iran a uranium mine in Africa and which is 10-percent-owned by China.
The “Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘Buck’ McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015” - named after the retiring chairmen of the Senate and House Armed Services panels – includes the giveaway of Apache burial, medicinal, and ceremonial grounds currently within the bounds of Tonto. News of the land provision was kept under wraps until late Tuesday, when the bill was finally posted online.
The land proposed to be given to Resolution Copper, in exchange for other lands, includes prime territory Apaches have used for centuries to gather medicinal plants and acorns, and it is near a spot known as Apache Leap, a summit that Apaches jumped from to avoid being killed by settlers in the late 19th century.
Lands included in the plan will stop 1,500 feet short of Apache Leap and will not initially include an area known as Oak Flats, though, when it comes to the oaks, contradictory legal parameters are but a minor hurdle for a company like Resolution Copper to eventually drill there.
The House may vote on the NDAA as soon as this week with rules included that would bar the Senate from amending the legislation. On Wednesday night, a last-minute effort to strip the land provision from the NDAA failed in the House Rules Committee, which voted to give one hour for debate over the NDAA in the House.
Terry Rambler, chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, told The Huffington Post he was saddened by news of the proposal, yet not all that surprised.
“Of all people, Apaches and Indians should understand, because we’ve gone through this so many times in our history,” Rambler said.
“The first thing I thought about was not really today, but 50 years from now, probably after my time, if this land exchange bill goes through, the effects that my children and children’s children will be dealing with,”Rambler added.
“Since time immemorial people have gone there. That’s part of our ancestral homeland,” Rambler said.”We’ve had dancers in that area forever – sunrise dancers – and coming-of-age ceremonies for our young girls that become women. They’ll seal that off. They’ll seal us off from the acorn grounds, and the medicinal plants in the area, and our prayer areas.”
Arizona Sen. John McCain was instrumental in adding to the NDAA the land deal that had been pursued by Rio Tinto for a decade, according to HuffPo. Some in Congress were reportedly concerned with the deal, but it ultimately materialized thanks to economic assurances. Rio Tinto claims mining in Tonto will generate $61 billion in economic activity and 3,700 direct and indirect jobs over 40 years.
Rambler said whether Rio Tinto’s economic assertions are true or not, it may not matter.
“It seems like us Apaches and other Indians care more about what this type of action does to the environment and the effects it leaves behind for us, while others tend to think more about today and the promise of jobs, but not necessarily what our creator God gave to us,” he said.
Rambler said he was particularly concerned with long-term ramifications, including the company’s intent to use “block cave” mining, which means digging under the ore, causing it to collapse.
“What those mountains mean to us is that when the rain and the snow comes, it distributes it to us,”Rambler said. “It replenishes our aquifers to give us life.”
Resolution Copper has said its mining plan for the area has been filed with the National Forest Service and that it will comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that supposedly protects federal lands.
But Rambler said NEPA is no match for Resolution Copper’s intent.
“This is what will happen – the law in one area says there will be consultation, but the law in another area of the bill says the land exchange will happen within one year of enactment of this bill,” Rambler said. “So no matter what we’re doing within that one year, the consultation part won’t mean anything after one year. Because then it’s really theirs after that.”
Basically, NEPA will only protect lands that remain in federal hands. The rest is fair game, according to federal law.
“We would only have to do NEPA on any activity that would take place on remaining federal land,” said Arizona Bureau of Land Management official Carrie Templin.
The 2015 NDAA contains other land deals, including one that would subject 70,000 acres of Tongass National Forest in Alaska to logging and another provision that would give 1,600 acres from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State for purposes of industrial development, a plan that has spurred tribal protest.
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Congress is poised to give a foreign mining company 2,400 acres of national forest in Arizona that is cherished ancestral homeland to Apache natives. Controversially, the measure is attached to annual legislation that funds the US Defense Department.
This week, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees quietly attached a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would mandate the handover of a large tract of Tonto National Forest to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of the Australian-English mining company Rio Tinto, which co-owns with Iran a uranium mine in Africa and which is 10-percent-owned by China.
The “Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘Buck’ McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015” - named after the retiring chairmen of the Senate and House Armed Services panels – includes the giveaway of Apache burial, medicinal, and ceremonial grounds currently within the bounds of Tonto. News of the land provision was kept under wraps until late Tuesday, when the bill was finally posted online.
The land proposed to be given to Resolution Copper, in exchange for other lands, includes prime territory Apaches have used for centuries to gather medicinal plants and acorns, and it is near a spot known as Apache Leap, a summit that Apaches jumped from to avoid being killed by settlers in the late 19th century.
Lands included in the plan will stop 1,500 feet short of Apache Leap and will not initially include an area known as Oak Flats, though, when it comes to the oaks, contradictory legal parameters are but a minor hurdle for a company like Resolution Copper to eventually drill there.
The House may vote on the NDAA as soon as this week with rules included that would bar the Senate from amending the legislation. On Wednesday night, a last-minute effort to strip the land provision from the NDAA failed in the House Rules Committee, which voted to give one hour for debate over the NDAA in the House.
Terry Rambler, chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, told The Huffington Post he was saddened by news of the proposal, yet not all that surprised.
“Of all people, Apaches and Indians should understand, because we’ve gone through this so many times in our history,” Rambler said.
“The first thing I thought about was not really today, but 50 years from now, probably after my time, if this land exchange bill goes through, the effects that my children and children’s children will be dealing with,”Rambler added.
“Since time immemorial people have gone there. That’s part of our ancestral homeland,” Rambler said.”We’ve had dancers in that area forever – sunrise dancers – and coming-of-age ceremonies for our young girls that become women. They’ll seal that off. They’ll seal us off from the acorn grounds, and the medicinal plants in the area, and our prayer areas.”
Arizona Sen. John McCain was instrumental in adding to the NDAA the land deal that had been pursued by Rio Tinto for a decade, according to HuffPo. Some in Congress were reportedly concerned with the deal, but it ultimately materialized thanks to economic assurances. Rio Tinto claims mining in Tonto will generate $61 billion in economic activity and 3,700 direct and indirect jobs over 40 years.
Rambler said whether Rio Tinto’s economic assertions are true or not, it may not matter.
“It seems like us Apaches and other Indians care more about what this type of action does to the environment and the effects it leaves behind for us, while others tend to think more about today and the promise of jobs, but not necessarily what our creator God gave to us,” he said.
Rambler said he was particularly concerned with long-term ramifications, including the company’s intent to use “block cave” mining, which means digging under the ore, causing it to collapse.
“What those mountains mean to us is that when the rain and the snow comes, it distributes it to us,”Rambler said. “It replenishes our aquifers to give us life.”
Resolution Copper has said its mining plan for the area has been filed with the National Forest Service and that it will comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that supposedly protects federal lands.
But Rambler said NEPA is no match for Resolution Copper’s intent.
“This is what will happen – the law in one area says there will be consultation, but the law in another area of the bill says the land exchange will happen within one year of enactment of this bill,” Rambler said. “So no matter what we’re doing within that one year, the consultation part won’t mean anything after one year. Because then it’s really theirs after that.”
Basically, NEPA will only protect lands that remain in federal hands. The rest is fair game, according to federal law.
“We would only have to do NEPA on any activity that would take place on remaining federal land,” said Arizona Bureau of Land Management official Carrie Templin.
The 2015 NDAA contains other land deals, including one that would subject 70,000 acres of Tongass National Forest in Alaska to logging and another provision that would give 1,600 acres from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State for purposes of industrial development, a plan that has spurred tribal protest.
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"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
There is no doubt that John McCain would sell the traditions of real Americans for his own gain ,and to a foreign country it certainly wouldn't be the first time.
Dear ones, I am from far away and would love to help.. So my first practical thought being, someone of you connected to Apache people, or whomever of American citizenship, please, please make an AVAAZ(or similar) petition campaign, and both me, and, I know it in my heart, many from across the globe will sign and stand by you in support.. Do not give up, even with few days left, with the possible support like that you(we} can still make them change their mind.,,
With deep love and respect
Maria Aina Motlochová
PS. If you do, let me know, I will happilly "share it forward.
Un-flipping-believable! Well, no, I guess it is entirely 100% believeable in today's world. What can we do?!?! Is there a petition?
How much will the congressmen make from this deal? Did they buy up stocks or options on the company before the news came out? I thought we couldn't make deals with Iranian companies.
It is supposedly against the Constitution to sell any American owned land to a foreign entity. However Congress has been trampling on the Constitution for decades, and we the American ignorant are letting them by not posing term limits on them, and voting them back into office. It is time Americans stood up and take our country back. By force if need be. If there is a petition against this out there anywhere, I will sign it. The American Indian has suffered enough.
When you thought you heard it all, some crazed D.C. idiots pulls something like this. So now we're doing business with Iran. How can they sell or give land that isn't theirs? Doesn't it belong to the Indians? If they can't find one way to destroy the land and our country, they will come up with something else. I'm just dumbfounded!!
The United States has 2, 379, 964, 800 acres of land within it's borders. That's two billion three hundred seventy nine million nine hundred sixty four thousand acres.At one time none of it belonged to the United States.Our elected representatives can't respect the wishes of a native tribe and a lot of very concerned people to protect 2,400 acres in the middle of nowhere but central to the lives of our first nations people? Disgraceful. Those who slipped this into the spending bill should be ashamed.
The ONLY way we are going to stop atrocities like this is to VOTE these people OUT! Take names, vote when you can and get rid of the antiquated idiots!!
How sad is this...if it were reversed would the act still occur ..how can it happen that there is a land sale from someone's property by those who really have no right to do so and nothing one can do about it???? Sacred Ground...........how dare they do this .............what has happened to man's caring ways for others and respect especially for Sacred ground????.................money money money..............is money really worth it ?????? Prayers are being sent out for all .......???
My heart is just breaking. Breaking.
John McCain has no shame nor does he have a consciousness about anyone except another capitalist pig like himself who wants to cut a deal
to further increase his bank accounts.
I hope history is being recorded here cause when the am err I can people begin to wake from their drugged stupor, this transaction that McCain is responsible for will have cause major grief & havoc.
Don't forget, Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick co-sponsored the legislation. I wish they hadn't done this. also, the land wasn't owned by the Reservation...it belonged to the National Forrest Service.
Why cant they well enough alone greed and and more greed This land is sacred to the Apaches they should be left alone they suffered enough already.
American dream = a lot of shit
Moral superiority = a lot of shit
Protestant ethics = a lot of shit
Appreciation of individual effort = a lot of shit
Justice for all = a lot of shit
Donald Trump = a lot of shit
No one can say that Trump does not represent America.
Greed will destroy us all, eventually, even the greedy. By then the major part of us will be long gone. I am sorry for the first people who are doing their best to save our earth. I am with them but, as they, I don't know how to stop this evil.
I thought Indian lands were protected by the Federal Government. It is shameful for the gov't. once again allowed to steal tribal lands. I'm even shocked that Senator McCain is in agreement of this. I guess some of President Trumps has rubbed off on McCain.
When and if they start drilling I hope the mountains fight back and collapse on them killing every single one of them.
When they say this is happening no matter what and will create so many jobs, does that include Apache/native American jobs? Or is it just taking land with no compensation in the past? Eventually all lands will be taken by greed and industry and we will soon be eradicating humans period.
Not at all appropriate or morally right ... these lands belong to the Apache ...
All that matters to some is $$$ and it is so wrong.
Petition again this if anyone wants to sign and share: https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Apache_land
I am so sorry for whole Indian tribes that has suffered more than any other nationalities in the United States. It is so sad that greed is taking over the planet! If you do start a petition I will certainly sign it as many others would also.
My Spirit lead me to read this at 12:50am. From a deep sleep I cannot return after reading this terrible news. When will the pain end? Why must a government decide to break our native people down? So much hatred will travel across this nation. I to am guilty of hate. Hate is what they make of us with thier secret acts of profit.
Why would the trump administration sell land to China? I thought their slogan was "America First". So what exactly does that mean? If they were going to mine on that land why not sell to an American company? Something smells here AGAIN. I agree that probably McCain and the others are making a bundle on this deal. So the Apache people get screwed. But is the land a part of a treaty? If so, how can they just take it? (stupid question I guess but I'd like to know how those jerks justified taking the land. Jobs is a stupid reason since unemployment is so low. So what is the real reason those greedy slobs are selling the Apache land to a foreign country?
Why on earth,in this day and age,do some people in power still want to screw Native Americans over. They all ready tried Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing.Do Native Americans still make the power elite feel so guilty about the past.
I think you need to start a petition. And have everyone contact their representative in Congress. And do it quickly
Government stop being greedy, and abide by treaties signed. Allow the
Native Americans to have peace on their property.
Don't just lament. Contact your misrepresentatives in Congress and let them know that their vote will determine how YOU VOTE when they run for re-election.
Sale Washington D.C.
How bout dat!
I want people to get out if the mindset that National Forests and BLM controlled properties are GOVT properties. IT IS NOT. IT Is PAID FOR by TAX Payers to PRESERVE !THAT LAND BELONGS TO ALL OF US. SO stop saying Govt property. WE Have to tell them THIS is unacceptable and that they are not utilizing this LAND WE PAID for as AGREED> THat they are in breach of contract. BLM has got to go. The Tribes can care for much of the forests set aside. Ranchers have done more to take care of public lands than BLM. THATS A FACT.
WHO do we call? Do we still have time? THIS IS NOT RIGHT and NEEDS TO STOP!!!! WE ALL NEED TO GET INVOLVED NOW!!!!!!!
Change from the controlled opposition parties to Green. Its never too late to go do good for one's land. GPUS.org and google find your local group.
Oh, and join Movetoamend.org while you still can have rights.
I knew this was coming when Trump reduced the size of some National Monument lands, and took others off the Monuments lands completely.
Now as far as legislators possibly buying stock in these companies, I wouldn't be surprised if Trump bought stock in them, too.
Sign the petition right away.
https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Apache_land
We got to listen to it indigenous people they now how to take care of mother vs corp. They understand $$$$$$$$$$$$
Get rid of every single person in Congress today. And get rid of Trump. Bring in people who are interested in preserving our country's heritage instead of filling their own pockets. Every sitting Republican needs to be put out of office if this is the best they can do.
Trumpaholics at it again. The worst president this country has ever known and will ever know. Our country will be completely demolished before Mueller ever arrests him for treason. McConnell and Paul Ryan need to share a jail cell with him. This is just not right to treat our Native Americans like this. All for the mighty dollar.
They can't!!! Take them to the Hague!!!
Two years ago Jeff Flake and John McCain were sponsoring a bill in which the Grand Canyon would be mined at the bottom for uranium. It would have destroyed petroglphs and ruined ancient land. I wrote a heated letter to both saying something about the rape of sacred land and how and why this should not happen. John McCain responded. He said he agreed with me that there is too much rape allowed to happen to American Indian women and this should be stopped immediately. That wasnt what I asked at all. They must have stopped anyway because it didnt happen, the sale of the bottom of the Grand canyon for uranium mining.
Isn't this Rio Tinto company the same one destroying huge properties in the Indonesian area of New Guinea? There they are actually killing native peoples who try to stop them...as they dig into the earth for minerals...destroying the lands for those who live in them...and the wildlife too. This is not a decent company.
shameful
it's not theirs to give! we need to standing rock this crud.
IT'S ELECTION TIME
USE YOUR VOTE TO KICK OUT THE BAD ONES
Respect Native lands. Copper is found in many places on Earth. There is no need to defile Native American sacred spaces.
These are my people's home. My ancestors way of life. I'd gladly give my life protecting something my family holds dear in. Our hearts.
They definitely don't want militia .... After the killing of Lavoy finnicun. .that was the ultimate scare tactic against the people of America and their God given rights to protest those fucking bastsrds decision. Share everyone to protect our lands. Cookie cutter homes are also on the rise in their small cell like yard! Control..control..control!
Why can't we respect what is sacred to others? This is ridiculous - the destruction for the dollar.
This is horrendous. Who attached the measure? Vote them out.
This sounds like a very dangerous and complicated business. Rio Tinto claims to be experts. So did the builders of the titanic.
I signed the petition and posted it on fb. I hope we are successful in stopping this atrocity.
All I can do is beg to God the Creator of all things , to have his way , to protect us and earth from greed.
Just another part of a Treaty that the U.S. will ignore! A Treaty is like a contract and is only as good as the people behind it! This action does not surprise me!
Why are we not stopping this? If there were ever a cause to protest shouldnt the health of mother earth be first on the list?! SHE IS OUR HOME!!!
Noooooooooo
I despair!
This is wrong on all levels
This is bull crap. Enough is enough. Someone said we need to standing rock this and I couldn't agree more.
Haven't we taken enough from the Apache Indians? In any case, we shouldn't allow foreign countries have anything from us. No matter what.
Who geved this monsters the right to destroy the best nation in the world? Is this a plan or casuality? Humans and animals life depend on mother's nature.
They are destroying the oceas,the rivers,the mountains,the valley, the earth,the air,the jungles, the people,tje animals.
TJEY ARE MONSTERS WITH OUT COSCIENCE,actimg togetjers to brake THE STRONG AMERICAN HUMAN SPIRIT
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THEY ARE FEW BOT BAD. IT IS TIME FOR THE TRUTH. TO PROTECT THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE. BE STRONG SAY MO.
US not your land . Not your right to do this.A`HO . Noooooooooooooo. To this.
Corporate America at its best
Inexcusable. The Native Americans have been screwed over since white man arrived and we continue to do it.
Our government has never respected natives from the beginning..... Those in power to do this need taken outta power for even thinking such bull..... To those doing this i hope cancer eats your butthole and your kids get to watch you die the evil death you deserve
This is so wrong in so many ways
where is Hollywood on this. Why are they not doing PSA's on television and radio against this
travesty. they are such hypocrites. everyone must contact their representatives and demand this be stopped.
Remember - 'they' already built antennas on sacred Mount Graham... now it's even worse. Our world is upside down. we MUST rise together, as one, enough is enough.
Damn Congress!! Typical for them to pull this shit!!
Stop this at all cost the Indians have the rt.to say what happens to thier ancestrial lands.!!!
How much must the native American People have to take? The government took away their lands for the white man's needs, now you want to take back their land to have it mined by a different country? What's wrong with you?!! Whites (which I am) and blacks complain every time they have their toes stepped on. The government expects the Native American people to keep accepting the terrible things that's done to them. God forgive us for what we do to the Native American People. I wish we as Americans would respect our Native Americans. They deserve their American rights the same as we do. Just because we use the idea, It's For The Greater Good, doesn't mean it's the moral and fair thing to do. Bottom line, money is what it's all about, wake up United States, stop selling off our land and business for other countries to use, or we will be put on reservations and told how to live. Native AMERICAN people, I personally am so very sorry.
God sees all knows all. Corporate greed on every level and even in our government. Judgement day will come to all those who have done wrong and evil to our native Indians. It will not go without notice in God's hands he has the final say. My prayers are with our native Indians that God would protect them from the evil and greed in this world. That they may have justice for everything they have been through in history in Jesus name! Amen!
DA REPUBLICUNT CORP "KOCH"-SUKKAS POLISHTICIANS ARE HANGIN' THEMSELVES ONE DAY AT A TIME !!
GREED MONGERS ! NO IS Of course our politicians WILL POCKET $$$ on this deal! Can't you politicians leave anything ALONE ????? NOV is coming! YOUR OUT !
What the heck is wrong with our politicians to even be considering taking this sacred land. Really terribly upsetting.
The Native American pepolpe have been enslaved, starved, ripped off, religiously denied, disenfranchised in many ways. The real abusers are the people in government who keep creating these back room, midnight vote type deals rising on the back of other larger bills, sometimes not having any relation to that bill at all. If you think your Congress reads all these bills you are being deceived. These types of abuses of power go on all the time with the citizens the looser. This time it's one if the weakest cultures we have.. Really.. When is enough ! nough! Tell them to stop giving away what does not belong to them! They are trying to allow drilling in National Parks also... What will it take for you to express your outrage AND VOTE??
Needs a link to local state senators and congress for voter protest sounds like a deal made for china negotiations
Another travesty. The $61 billion in "economic activity does not include the estimated costs to the environment,either locally, or the broader environment, air, water. And that big open pit that will be left, what happens when it collapses? it surely will. More than any of this, it is another violation of Native American rights, another act of cultural genocide.
I agree. Another travesty. When will we allow Native Americans to live without constant attacks. Don't allow this to happen!!
I want to help
Rio Tits is a Fake Queen Elizabeth operation the biggest criminal usuper on this planet, she claims to own 1/6 of the earth,, talk about a parasitic vulture. Her reign is coming to an end very soon...repent to The Lord http://jahtruth.net/britmon.htm https://deuteronomy4verse2.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/greatest-criminal/ http://jahtruth.net/ireland.htm http://jahtruth.net/chiefdan.htm http://jahtruth.net/emmau2.htm
I'm a former CRM Archaeologist. I did some work in California some years back and worked on some projects with Tribes to use the cultural preservation laws to throw up some objections to development. Can this be done here. I'm sure that the Apache Nation has some Archaeologists. What do they say? Destruction of cultural patrimony is worse than just losing land, and spiritual meaning is just not something you can put a price on. I hope the Apache nation can put a stop to this senseless destruction.
Congress and Senate are getting out of hand They should be fined for being stupid and fired.!
What can we do to prevent this atrocity?
Doesn't surprise me. They had to have support from both political parties to pass this law. We must vote out both political parties to eradicate this insanity of corruption in our government, with the exception of Bernie Sanders and those who voted against this. I bet they will now go after other Native Americans lands.
I hope every Native American will regoster to vote to help us vote out these crooked, criminals who voted to give the Apache sacred land to mining companies who bribed obviously by the billionaires in the mining businesses.
It's getting to where we are just going to have to stand together and begin the next American Revolution.
Doesn't surprise me. They had to have support from both political parties to pass this law. We must vote out both political parties to eradicate this insanity of corruption in our government, with the exception of Bernie Sanders and those who voted against this. I bet they will now go after other Native Americans lands.
I hope every Native American will regoster to vote to help us vote out these crooked, criminals who voted to give the Apache sacred land to mining companies who bribed obviously by the billionaires in the mining businesses.
It's getting to where we are just going to have to stand together and begin the next American Revolution.
Doesn't surprise me. They had to have support from both political parties to pass this law. We must vote out both political parties to eradicate this insanity of corruption in our government, with the exception of Bernie Sanders and those who voted against this. I bet they will now go after other Native Americans lands.
I hope every Native American will regoster to vote to help us vote out these crooked, criminals who voted to give the Apache sacred land to mining companies who bribed obviously by the billionaires in the mining businesses.
It's getting to where we are just going to have to stand together and begin the next American Revolution.
Hey, to the people talking as if McCain was still alive...he died a year ago.
You should be yelling about those that supported and passed the bill that are still in congress.
But if you think screwing Native Americans is something new, i would say read more history books. It is unfortunately a very common thing for the US government to do.
WE BETTER RISE THE HELL UP I SAID I SEEN THIS TYPE OF SHIT I DO BELIEVE IT WAS MARK LIVEN THAT I SEEN ON HIS PAGE TALKING TO SOMEONE FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY ABOUT BUYING LAND IN ALABAMA THIS SHIT NEEDS TO STOP AND STOP NOW
Follow the money!!!
So many have written and asked are there petitions..where is national media on this..why are we investigating over and over Trump when we need to be about the business of our sacred land...my email pfdemeyer@gmail.com I'm a small town media in Oregon and I'm willing if someone wants to be interviewed to get this out there...
VERY SAD AND DISTURBING THAT THIS SHOULD BE ALLOWED...!
WON'T BE LONG UNTIL IT HAPPENS IN YOUR COUNTRIES TOO
IF IT HASN'T ALREADY
THANKS TO OUR GOVERNMENTS AND THEIR MONEY BANKS
IT'S THE SAME AS BACK IN *1492*
WHEN ONE HUNDRED MILLION NATIVES WERE SLAUGHTERED ON UNITED STATES NATIVE SOILS
AND LAND WAS STOLEN AS WERE WOMEN, CHILDREN AND NATIVE WARRIORS,
THOUSANDS OF NATIVES WERE TAKEN AN PUT INTO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
WHERE THEY WERE FORBIDDEN TO SPEAK OR LEARN OF THEIR OWN CULTURES...THEIR SACRED BELIEFS AN HAIR WAS CUT SHORT AND MANY NATIVES DIED IN THE RESULT OF THE WHITE SETTLERS BACK IN *1492*-*1980s UNTIL THIS VERY DAY MANY MORE ARE DYING FROM STARVATION, RAPE, ABUSE AND ASULT DEW TO RACISM IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES ESPECIALLY THE U.S...!
STAR*1492*
SORRY NO OFFENCE INTENDED MY FRIENDS...!
Don't forget ever THE TRAIL OF TEARS FIGHT!!! FOR WHAT IS YOURS AND DO GIVE IT TO THEM
THE INDIAN NATION WILL NOT BE THE ONLY ONES LOOSING IF YOU DO.
BEVERLY CHANEY
Why is there foreign gvts in our country mining our Native American or first peoples land there sacred land. Why is this allowed. I know Sen McCain did this 2 years ago why did Congress pass it. Do we not give a dam who this land rightfully belongs to . Do we not care that its there Sacred Ground. ok lets see what happns where they come in and tear your churcdhs down for the land its standing on would you let them. I bet Not.
Are you a Communist government? Yes, just like you have taken our families land at Land Between the Lakes in Western Kentucky. I guess all you crooks own stock or have family members that own these foreign companies. Pisses me 😠 off. I say NO to your plan.
This is a disgrace!!! The GOP is so "religious" with their christian religion yet don't care about other religious sites. They can eat shit and die!!! Money isn't everything and what goes around comes around.
I am so tired of Congress and this president especially, selling our country to the highest bidder... I want them all gone.
1st off why aren't they giving it to an American company? 2nd is it another treaty violation? Resist the establishment lifers from both parties.
Where is A.I.M., when we need them????
There is no "2 party" system of voting, there is only 1 party the corporate party or the duopoly if you will. Profit>life on all levels-stealing sacred land and water of life their profit hungry raping continues.
Amerikkka is NOT God's Chosen People
Amerikkka does not have a Land Covenant with the God of Abraham
The dysfunctional co-dependent relationship between Amerikkka and the modern nation state of ISISrael has nothing to do with justice and freedom.
It has everything to do with justifying oppression and injustice.
Amerikkka needs the Legacy of the OldTestament Land covenant with Israel to justify its genocide of the native Americans and its enslavement of Africans.
The modern nation state of ISISrael needs Amerikkka to justify it's genocidal deeds toward the Palestinians and the Beduins.
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Amerikkka is not, has never been, and will never be Christian.
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https://youtu.be/J_qop7tNvh8
Ummmm.. You all know this was passed back in 2014 right.... way before the current administration.... not that it makes it less horrible, but as mentioned find out who voted for this and is still in office....
Sponsor:
Rep. Barletta, Lou [R-PA-11] (Introduced 01/31/2014)
Committees:
House - Ways and Means
Committee Reports:
H. Rept. 113-360
Latest Action:
12/19/2014 Became Public Law No: 113-291. (TXT | PDF) (All Actions)
Roll Call Votes:
There have been 13 roll call votes
Notes:
See the committee print, containing the legislative text and joint explanatory statement, accompanying the enrolled version of H.R.3979.
If you send out a petition I'll gladly sign it.
This madness has to stop. Although this bill is almost off the table, similar bill will not be voted for by me if I am elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for District 7 in Wisconsin.
That is like the 200-th time your US Government is NOT HONORING what they sighed in the past - concerning Native Americans, in this case Apache land. They are cheaters and liars. Figth them in the Senate and take them to an International Court and your Federal Court.
WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!? I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY ARE STILL DOING THESE THINGS AND THEN HAVE THE GUTS TO TELL PEOPLE THAT MUSLIMS/LATINOS/WHATEVER ARE "INVADING THEM AND THREATENING THEIR WAY OF LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND NO, I AM NOT AMERICAN NOR DO I HAVE THE HONOR OF BEING FROM ANY TRIBE OF NATIVES PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. I DO, HOWEVER, GET SUPER ANGRY WHEN I SEE THE CONSTANT ABUSE AND DISREGARD FOR THE RIGHTS OF NATIVE PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE OR WHERE THEY LIVE!!!!!!
AND NO, I DON'T MEAN TO "YELL", BUT I AM VERY, VERY ANGRY AND CAPS HELP.
Where's the UNLIKE/ANGRY button?
What the HELL? It wasn't bad enough you took our land in the past, now you have to do it again. Who ever made this decision, I would like your home address. I need a new place to live, and your house is the prospective spot. You take my home, maybe I need to take yours. It only seems fair, my home for yours.
NO. NOT OK IN MY BOOK.
Sounds like a good deal. Mining is good. Locking up valuable resources is unethical. The Apache do not own this land and have no treaty rights associated with it. The federal government will acquire other land in exchange for the land that can and should be exploited for its minerals.
There is lots of other public land where the dirt-worshipers can dance.
Hmmm must be some uranium in the ground with them being involved with iran
There has to be a fight with these basterd s
NO! This is a disgrace!
Where is the outrage that a democratic house screwed the American Indian again? Where are the environmentalists tied to trees or cactus? Oh they are busy trying to enact a coup to unseat Trump.
You kill 200 Billion Native Americans and run them off,to srub land in Oklahoma and then the oil bust erupted and you took our mineral rights away from us and give the land away ! A ' HO
Keep electing liberals Democrats and they will end up giving away all of America to foreign Governments. So that they can get richer and more powerful. Vote to give America back to Americans.
Our Government from the Top down, still think with $ signs in their eyes. They don't mind breaking Treaties, just look at the Keystone Pipeline. They don't care about the people that elected them, otherwise they would Pay back the SSI they stole & quit giving themselves raises. They screw the people of this land and don't care until it is election time. Vote for MARK Charles
Mother Earth is being destroyed! This legislation should be STOPPED! Once again, greed takes precedence over people, their culture and the environment. How many times will the Indigenous People of this land be raped and subjected to the tyranny of Greedy, Powerful Men? IF they are not stopped, the world will be destroyed. This is happening to indigenous people all over this world...the results are devastating.
Pissed this is just plain money grubbing, so if the House is putting in rules to keep the senate fromc hanging it, which may actually be illegal at some level, then the Demorats are to blame for this one
Greed by the USA again
Taking tribal lands
Chiricahua apache membrneos NDE nation of Az
USA has not stop at taking native lands
Why are you blaming Trump for a spending bill signed by Obama in 2015? Did you even read the article? And this land wasn't considered "sacred" until the potential of the largest copper deposit in the United States became a possibility. Medicine men from the San Carlos Apache tribe have said the land isn't sacred to them. This is one man's attempt at fame fighting for land that is 40 miles west of the reservation. This same guy fought against a telescope on a mountain east of the reservation. All the gloom and doom from that never happened so he needed a new battle to get money and attention. Do some research!
To the anonymous that says this isn't sacred ground....IT IS. They have certain proceedures to follow to harvest the plants & herbs used for their medicine.Whether its sacred ground or not this is Native land thst they have used for time untold. Haven't we destroyed the Earth enough without more drilling & fracking?????? This land should be left as it is & not mined at all!