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Outcry as Trump officials to transfer sacred Native American land to miners
Critics condemn callous betrayal after Trump officials set in motion transfer of Oak Flat to Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton
Annette McGivney
Sat 16 Jan 2021 04.30 EST
As one of its last acts, the Trump administration has set in motion the transfer of sacred Native American lands to a pair of Anglo-Australian mining conglomerates.
The 2,422-acre Arizona parcel called Oak Flat is of enormous significance to the Western Apache and is now on track for destruction by what is slated to be one of the largest copper mining operations in the United States.
Steps for the controversial land transfer from the US government, which owns the land, to the miners were completed on Friday morning, when a final environmental assessment was published. The government must soon transfer title to the land.
Native Americans in the area have compared it to historical attacks on their tribes. What was once gunpowder and disease is now replaced with bureaucratic negligence, said Wendsler Nosie, founder of activist organization Apache Stronghold and a member of the Apache band descended from Geronimo. Native people are treated as something invisible or gone. We are not. We dont want to be pushed around any more.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/16/sacred-native-american-land-arizona-oak-flat
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Outcry as Trump officials to transfer sacred Native American land to miners (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jan 2021
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notinkansas
(1,096 posts)1. Burn it all down on your way out the door.
The degree of 'despicable' is phenomenal. There truly is no bottom to the depravity.
I sincerely hope that this is something that can be undone.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)3. Seriously. He's beyond despicable
Baitball Blogger
(46,735 posts)2. Hmm. Is Trump planning to land in Australia?
Looking for some patronage leverage?
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)4. Hope Deb Haaland can mitigate the malicious damage
done over 4 years to native lands by the FAILED dictator wannabe.
Deuxcents
(16,244 posts)5. I hope so, too.
Me.
(35,454 posts)6. Courts!