{"id":9178,"date":"2021-03-18T14:43:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T18:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=9178"},"modified":"2021-03-18T14:44:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T18:44:18","slug":"native-sun-news-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/03\/18\/native-sun-news-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Sun News Today: Sacred Apache site gains reprieve in Biden administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" data-attachment-id=\"9180\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/03\/18\/native-sun-news-today\/oakflat-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/18\/oakflat-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;COOLPIX S9500&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1479403221&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;8.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"oakflat\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/18\/oakflat-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/18\/oakflat-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"oakflat\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9180\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">For more than six years, tribal members and allies have been holding camps, rallies, relay runs and other demonstrations to resist the mining on sacred treaty land at Oak Flat in Arizona. Photo by Talli Nauman \/ Native Sun News Today<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Biden tribal consultation memo waylays giant Apache Leap copper mine<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Thursday, March 18, 2021<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Talli Nauman<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Native Sun News Today Health & Environment Editor<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source-website\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">nativesunnews.today<\/a><\/div> \r\n<P><\/P>\r\nOAK FLAT, Arizona &#8212; To make good on Joe Biden\u2019s recent Presidential Memorandum for tribal consultation and strengthening nation-to-nation relationships, the U.S. Forest Service on March 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/03\/01\/san-carlos-apache-tribe-cheers-right-move-to-protect-sacred-site-from-copper-mine\/\">rescinded its permit for a massive foreign copper mine<\/a> that would engulf sacred Apache sites here.<P><\/P>\r\nFor years, the two biggest metal mining companies in the world, Rio Tinto and BHPBilliton, have sought to open the Resolution Copper Mine at this location 50 miles east of Phoenix.<P><\/P>\r\nThey have encountered a block of opposition from the San Carlos Apache Tribe, White Mountain Apache Tribe, Fort McDowell Yavapai Tribe, Jicarilla Apache Tribe, the Intertribal Council of Arizona and the National Congress of American Indians.<P><\/P>\r\nSan Carlos Apache Tribal Chair Terry Rambler called the withdrawal of the permit \u201cthe right move,\u201d noting, \u201cThe Resolution Copper Mine Project will desecrate <em>Chich\u2019il Bildagoteel<\/em>, also known as Oak Flat, which is the heart of our religious and cultural beliefs.\u201d<P><\/P>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Ra\u00fal Grijalva (D-Arizona) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) have once again introduced legislation to permanently protect a sacred Apache site in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Arizona?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Arizona<\/a> from development. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ProtectOakFlat?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ProtectOakFlat<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProtectOakFlat?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ProtectOakFlat<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRDems?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NRDems<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepRaulGrijalva?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepRaulGrijalva<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenSanders<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DFuHyfNGEY\">https:\/\/t.co\/DFuHyfNGEY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; indianz.com (@indianz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/indianz\/status\/1372209853654044679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nThe tribe took the Forest Service to court for failing to follow the law in the preparation of the final environmental impact statement, which was fast-tracked to permit the project on January 15, under the previous Administration of former President Donald Trump.<P><\/P>\r\nFor more than six years, tribal members and allies have been holding camps, rallies, relay runs and other demonstrations to resist the mining on sacred treaty land.<P><\/P>\r\n\u201cThis fight has never been about just one site: It\u2019s been about ending the cycle of ignoring tribal input whenever it suits polluters,\u201d U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Chair Ra\u00fal M. Grijalva, D-Ariz., said in a joint media release with Rambler.<P><\/P>\r\n\u201cThe Trump Administration rushed this document out the door as just one more favor to industry, regardless of how legally or scientifically unsupportable it was,\u201d he said, pledging to renew efforts to introduce the Save Oak Flat Act.<P><\/P>\r\n<div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><p><\/p>\r\nThe act is seen as a means to prevent a land transfer that deprives the Apache of access to 2,400 acres in the Tonto National Forest in order for Resolution Copper to mine. This transfer was approved in a midnight rider on the must-pass 2015 National Defense Authorization Act.<P><\/P>\r\nThe Resolution Copper Project threatens the water supply of the thirsty Chiricahua Mountains, already damaged by previous boom-and-bust copper exploitation. It would literally undermine the springs at Oak Flat and besmirch the landscape around Apache Leap.<P><\/P>\r\nThe Legend of Apache Tears has it that 75 Apache warriors trapped on a mountain ledge here leaped to their death rather than be killed by the U.S. troops surrounding them. \r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<div class=\"card mb-3\">\r\n  <div class=\"row\">\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-4\">\r\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">\r\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2016\/09\/12\/nativesunnewstoday.png\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"native sun news today\"\/>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-8\">\r\n      <div class=\"card-body\">\r\n        <h5 class=\"card-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">NATIVE SUN NEWS TODAY<\/a><\/h5>\r\n        <p>\r\n           Support Native media!\r\n        <\/p>\r\n\t\t<p>Read the rest of the story on Native Sun News Today: <a 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