https://freerepublic.com/tag/sancarlosapachetribe/ en-us Fri, 12 Dec 2014 23:34:29 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3236685/posts 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, that’s because it is. If the idea of transferring the ownership of federal forest lands to foreign mining companies seems absurd, it’s because that’s true, too,” said Fawn Sharp, President of... Indian Country Today Media Network https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3236685/posts#comment Fri, 12 Dec 2014 23:34:29 GMT