Swapping sacred land for foreign profit, no matter what the Environmental Impact Study says. Sound familiar?

“The site will doubtless be destroyed for any purpose other than mining; Resolution Copper Mining will hollow out a vast chamber that, when it caves in, will leave a two-mile-wide, 1,000-foot-deep pit. The company itself has likened the result of its planned mining at Oak Flat to that of a nearby meteor crater.”

Read the rest of the article about how the Apache are responding and how this land swap passed through congress regardless of the fact that it had received “special protections since 1955, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower decreed the area closed to mining”.

Read the full article in the New York Times here: Selling off Apache Holy Land