14.12.2014 - 03:27 [ Indian Country ]

57 Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Urge Senate to Nix Sacred Land Giveaway

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.