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57 Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Urge Senate to Nix Sacred Land Giveaway
Indian Country Today Media Network ^
| December 12, 2014
| by Gale Courey Toensing
Posted on 12/12/2014 3:34:29 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
More than 70 tribal nations have urged the U.S. Senate to defeat or remove a section of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act that would transfer a part of the publicly-owned Tonto National Forest that is sacred to the San Carlos Apache Tribe to a giant international corporation for a massive, environmentally devastating copper mine.
If such a land transfer provision seems out of place in a defense bill, thats because it is. If the idea of transferring the ownership of federal forest lands to foreign mining companies seems absurd, its because thats true, too, said Fawn Sharp, President of the Quinault Indian Nation and ATNI and Area Vice President of the National Congress of American Indians.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biggovernment; copper; mining; sancarlosapachetribe; tontonationalforest
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I'm with the tribes.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
So why don’t the tribes go into the copper mining business? The mining of domestic copper in the US is a matter of national security.
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posted on
12/12/2014 3:37:47 PM PST
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Summon the Cief’s
Gather all the Braves
Sound the War-Drums......
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posted on
12/12/2014 3:40:06 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Thought they might be speaking of the entire US!
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posted on
12/12/2014 3:40:45 PM PST
by
dasboot
To: dasboot
Didn’t some tribe try that a few years back?
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posted on
12/12/2014 3:45:24 PM PST
by
doc1019
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I live near this. There’s nothing out there but a minor number of apaches begging for money or food at gas stations.
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posted on
12/12/2014 3:46:22 PM PST
by
AlmaKing
To: Oldeconomybuyer
” that is sacred to the San Carlos Apache Tribe “
Indian lands are always termed “sacred”. Maybe Americans should adopt that concept and apply it liberally.
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posted on
12/12/2014 3:55:39 PM PST
by
odawg
To: blackdog
You mean work?? They like to lease and collect checks.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
12/12/2014 4:03:11 PM PST
by
Brother Cracker
(You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
To: AlmaKing
That's sad....but over the years, they simply haven't adopted a good work ethic. That's a big, general opinion.
I have Indian friends and they do work...but they left the reservation a long time ago.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“57 Affiliated Tribes...”
Give one U.S. state to each tribe.
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posted on
12/12/2014 4:08:04 PM PST
by
moovova
To: moovova
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posted on
12/12/2014 4:09:15 PM PST
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: blackdog
It’s not their land. It’s ours. Or it was. It’s Tonto National Forest, as it says in the article.
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posted on
12/12/2014 4:22:08 PM PST
by
Hugin
("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I'm with the tribes. Funny, you don't read Jewish.
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posted on
12/12/2014 4:58:00 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
To: Hugin
... the land swap provision will allow Resolution Copper Co., a subsidiary of the controversial international mining conglomerate Rio Tinto, to acquire 2,400 acres of the federally protected public land in the Tonto National Forest in southeast Arizona in exchange for 5,000 acres in parcels scattered around the state. It is our land and I was wondering what the taxpayers would get out of this. The article has the answer to that. I would like to know what condition those 5,000 acres is in and how scattered and small those parcels are. IOWs are they of any real value and will the FedMob make them FS land ... or what?
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posted on
12/12/2014 5:09:03 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
To: odawg
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posted on
12/12/2014 5:11:40 PM PST
by
Do_Tar
To: blackdog
So why dont the tribes go into the copper mining business?Or grow pot?
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posted on
12/12/2014 5:16:07 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
Why should “Northwest” Indians be concerned with something happening in Arizona?
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posted on
12/12/2014 5:21:38 PM PST
by
lrdg
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If I am not mistaken, the new deep copper mine is being developed on the site of and a mile
underneath an abandoned copper mine -- the old Magma Copper mine at Superior, AZ.
As such, the environmental impact of the operation should be relatively small.
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posted on
12/12/2014 5:25:29 PM PST
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
To: okie01
We were at a pueblo in NM years ago. Taking their picture was “forbidden” because they would lose their souls or some such BS. However, if you paid them $5 you could take their picture (apparently without their soul being disturbed). Indians usually make everything “sacred” if it fits their plans. Are their casinos sacred? Is the alcohol they consume or the dugs “sacred”?
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posted on
12/12/2014 5:45:39 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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