Trump Deadenders Rush To Give Apache Sacred Land To A Mining Company

[douglas9]

Team Trump is racing to transfer sacred land in Arizona to a mining company just days before Donald Trump’s term ends.

President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate a Native American who participated in a hearing critical of the proposed mine, U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), to lead the Interior Department.

“This place is going to be murdered,” said Wendsler Nosie Sr., former chairman of the San Carlos Apache tribe.

The environmental study needed to initiate the 2,422-acre transfer is expected to be released Friday. Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit group, has sued in federal court to try to block the land swap to Resolution Copper LLC.

Chi’ChilBildagoteel, often called Oak Flat, is located in the Tonto National Forest about 40 miles east of Phoenix. It is a sacred site for the San Carlos Apache tribe and other tribal nations. Native Americans hold religious and cultural ceremonies and gather food and medicine. President Dwight Eisenhower protected the area from mining in 1955.



https://www.dcreport.org/2021/01/14/trump-deadenders-rush-to-give-apache-sacred-land-to-a-mining-company/

[Deuxcents]

1. Let's hope a judge

Puts a hold on this today. This is wrong in so many ways.

[Duppers]

2. Just...😡

TY for posting this, Douglas.

[TheRealNorth]

3. Hope there is someone that can sue

If Trump can use the courts to hold things up for months, we should be able to hold this up for a week.

[douglas9]

4. Apaches sue to save Oak Flat from destruction by foriegn mining company, Jan. 12, 2021

TUCSON, Ariz.— Apache Stronghold, on behalf of traditional Apache religious and cultural leaders, sued the Trump administration today in U.S. District Court in Phoenix to stop the transfer of Oak Flat, or Chi'chil Bildagoteel, to British-Australian corporate mining giant Rio Tinto and its subsidiary, Resolution Copper.

The lawsuit seeks to stop the U.S. Forest Service's publication on January 15, 2021, of a final environmental impact statement that will trigger the transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper.

The Forest Service is rushing publication to help Rio Tinto take possession of Oak Flat before the end of the Trump administration, despite opposition by Apache Stronghold, San Carlos Apache Tribe, White Mountain Apache Tribe and hundreds of other Native American tribes.

Today's lawsuit against the U.S. government says the giveaway and destruction of Oak Flat violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and Apaches' constitutional rights to religious freedom, due process, and petition and remedy. The giveaway also constitutes a breach of trust and fiduciary duties.

"Oak Flat is holy and sacred. Chi'chil Bildagoteel is central to our traditional religion and identity as Apache people," said former San Carlos Apache tribal chairman and Apache Stronghold leader Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Sr. "Giving away our sacred land by the U.S. Government for destruction by a foreign mining company destroys our ability to practice our religion. It violates our First Amendment right to the free exercise of our religion protected by the Constitution."


https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2021/01/apaches-sue-to-save-oak-flat-from.html