2,400 Acres of Tribal Land Set to be Usurped

Indian Givers! When does it stop? When there is not a single spot of land for the native people of this country? This is not 'uninhabited' conservation lands where only plants and animals and their ecosystems are being disrupted and destroyed, which would be horrible enough. With European settlers' history of creating genocide on the original people of this country, hunting their food sources, battling them until they moved to nearly inhospitable regions further West, and then demanding by death or imprisonment that they pick up their cities and move again, how can this THIS be happening? Whatever happened to the vision of folks like John Muir?

As part of the NDAA, the House passed a bill which steals 2,400 acres of Apache Native American lands and hands it over to a foreign mining company to exploit and destroy. This means that access to all of the traditions and cultural teachings associated with the last vestiges of lands which facilitate the communication of sacred knowledge and teaching of cultural wisdom and identification is being robbed out from under our collective feet. These are our brothers and sisters. This means that the space native people were given to live, practice their ceremonies, have access to medicinal plants, and create community is being robbed from them in the name of national security. Since when did inhibiting religious freedom and creating cultural genocide become part of a defense budget plan? I guess that is a strategy that has been oft employed.