The NDAA is just the gift that keeps on giving, isn’t it? Prior to vote, the House and Senate Arms Services Committee attached a provision to the NDAA that would transfer the Apache people’s ancestral lands in the Tonto National Forest to a corporation called Resolution copper, which is a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, which as an Australian-English mining company. Senator John McCain, the senior Republican Senator from Arizona headed the push for this provision to be included.
As can be expected, Apache leaders were appalled by this move. They learned of the provision, ironically, while attending the White House Tribal Nations conference. Republicans have been trying to give ancestral lands to corporations for years now, but have always been blocked by significant opposition by the San Carlos Apache Tribe and their Democratic allies in Congress. But now, the NDAA will go to the Senate for a vote...
