House Votes to Sell Sacred Apache Lands to International Mining Corporation

[hue]

http://bluenationreview.com/house-votes-sell-sacred-apache-lands-international-mining-corporation/?ref=00328

The San Carlos Apache Tribe is fighting to preserve sites sacred to them after lawmakers slipped a clause in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would swap 2,400 acres of copper-containing land for 5,300 acres of substandard land, allowing the international corporation Resolution Mining Inc. to mine there.

The land in question is sacred to the Apache, including Oak Flat, Devil’s Canyon, and Apache Leap, where 75 Apache men, women, and children were massacred.

On top of that, the tribe says that the methods used to mine the area, a technique called block cave mining, poses a huge risk for cave-ins and landslides, potentially damaging the site and wildlife.

This is also land set aside by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who specifically said it should be protected from mining.

Can I just say this? We can all agree that if this were land sacred to Christians, destroying it wouldn’t even be a question, right? It just wouldn’t happen.

[Autumn]

1. I would hope there would be as much outrage over this as there is at this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/112778857

recommended. sacred lands are sacred

[99Forever]

2. The White House lobbied for this bill.

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Just in case some should forget.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/wall-street-spending-bill-congress-113525.html#ixzz3LiAKKVOU

[Autumn]

3. I will not forget and I don't fucking forgive.

[Horse with no Name]

4. What a surprise. I really didn't know that. n/t

[riderinthestorm]

15. Ugh. K&R nt

[ladjf]

5. The "House" is a criminal enterprise. nt

[oldandhappy]

6. not OK

I thot the House left town after their money vote??

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. The entire country is up for sale

and TPP will make it worse.
seriously.

[INdemo]

12. This President is a Republican and many of us knew we

just refused to admit it. I questioned his political loyalty when he began appointing so many Republicans to his cabinet and then with the Goldman Sachs Treasury Secretary during his first term, and then trying to slide Summers in there and now another Wall St. patriot for his newest appointee for Treasury Sec, obviously he is a Republican.
Not to mention the TPP,the latest spending bill..Republican

[Johonny]

8. You wonder how many people that voted for the bill cared to inform themselves of this

and many other issues. We're a country run by lobbyists these days.

[Downwinder]

9. Guess protecting sacred sites is not deemed to be conductive to the

happiness of said Indians.

Treaty with the Apaches (1852)
http://www.chiricahua-apache.com/supporting-materials/selected-treaties-and-other-historical-documents/treaty-with-the-apaches-1852/

ARTICLE 9.

Relying confidently upon the justice and the liberality of the aforesaid government, and anxious to remove every possible cause that might disturb their peace and quiet, it is agreed by the aforesaid Apache’s that the government of the United States shall at its earliest convenience designate, settle, and adjust their territorial boundaries, and pass and execute in their territory such laws as may be deemed conducive to the prosperity and happiness of said Indians.

[albino65]

10. For all religious

no matter what your preference, be it Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Spiritual, or just plain moral, know that our government from the top to the bottom, Republican or Democrat, is evil incarnate, having sold it's soul for money and power. If we think we are going to save this country, we need to have a revolution.

[EEO]

11. Continuing our fine tradition of screwing Native Americans whenever it is convenient.

[GeorgeGist]

13. Greed is winning.

[janlyn]

14. I spent a large part of my childhood

in Apache junction Az. I explored the desert and parts of the superstition mountains That range has a feel to it that cannot be explained.
It is no wonder it is sacred land. Most of the time I would get strange looks when I would say that, I came to understand that a lot of people couldn't feel what I felt. This is a terrible tragedy! I am in grieving!