House Votes to Sell Sacred Apache Lands to International Mining Corporation [View all]

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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.