Oak Flat is a sacred place to the San Carlos Apache, where coming-of-age ceremonies, especially for girls, have been performed for many generations, along with traditional acorn gathering. It belongs to the public, under the multiple-use mandate of the Forest Service, and has had special protections since 1955, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower decreed the area closed to mining — which, like cattle grazing, is otherwise common in national forests — because of its cultural and natural value. President Richard M. Nixon’s Interior Department in 1971 renewed this ban.

Now Arizona Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain have "snuck" the giveaway of this sacred, public land into the National Defense Authorization Act, by way of a fine-print rider. By doing this, Congress has handed over a sacred Native American site to a foreign-owned company for what may be the first time in our nation’s history.

This is just plain wrong.  And, it's no coincidence that Rio Tinto Mining, the parent company of Resolution Copper, has been a big financial contributor to both senators. Please join me in exposing this immoral move, and stopping it in its tracks...