Well, at least they waited until after Thanksgiving and November, which was Native-American History Month.

And what better time to do it than during the White House Tribal Nations Conference which was supposed to be an occasion to have the president, cabinet officials and the White House Council on Native American Affairs deal with “key issues facing tribes including respecting tribal sovereignty and upholding treaty and trust responsibilities” .

During the wind down to this session of Congress, the House and Senate Armed Services Committee has decided to give 2,400 acres of the Tonto National Forest in Arizona to a subsidiary of the Australian-English mining giant Rio Tinto.

Last year this move was stopped twice on the House floor, but this time this agreement was slipped into a piece of must pass legislation.

In a smooth move, the night before the final bill, the “Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘Buck’ McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015”, was passed, the House Armed Services Committee released summaries of the bill with the land deal left out.

In short, the final bill gives the Apache burial, medicinal, and ceremonial grounds to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton.

Hey, it’s just Indian land, and they should be used to having it just taken away from them by now. I mean, COME ON!

According to Terry Rambler, the chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe,
“Since time immemorial people have gone there. That’s part of our ancestral homeland. We’ve had dancers in that area forever — sunrise dancers — and coming-of-age ceremonies for our young girls that become women. They’ll seal that off. They’ll seal us off from the acorn grounds, and the medicinal plants in the area, and our prayer areas.”

Apparently to make it look acceptable, there is a provision that the mining company will not get immediate use of some of the land, which includes Apache Leap where trapped Apaches once jumped to their deaths rather than be killed by settlers in the late 1800s, for all of 30 to 90 day after the bill passes.

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Senator John McCain is responsible for this.

There had been bipartisan opposition to the move in 2011 because it was not being done properly and because the company that would benefit from taking Indian land is Rio Tinto, a foreign company that owns a uranium mine in Africa with Iran.

There was also a concern that the copper mined on the land was meant to go to China because China owns 10% of the company.

Presently rain and melting snow seep into the porous land and form the subterranean water source for the area. But, the type of mining used by Rio Tinto takes the soil and minerals from underneath causing the land to collapse and become too compact to allow for that.

“It seems like us Apaches and other Indians care more about what this type of action does to the environment and the effects it leaves behind for us, while others tend to think more about today and the promise of jobs, but not necessarily what our creator God gave to us,” Rambler said.
“The law in one area says there will be consultation, but the law in another area of the bill says the land exchange will happen within one year of enactment of this bill. So no matter what we’re doing within that one year, the consultation part won’t mean anything after one year. Because then it’s really theirs after that.”

An important question is why this sort of land grab is included in the National Defense Authorization Act.

Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma doesn’t think the land bill belongs in the defense measure. He has vowed to fight the bill until the land grab is removed, but he might not get the chance since the House has made sure it is written in such a way that it can’t be amended.

Any change that would remove this provision will have to happen in the House.

If it doesn’t happen there, and it gets passed in the Senate, a foreign company gets Native American land for the benefit of a foreign company and country.