Freddie Lane (YouTube, 3/19/23); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
At Minute 18:00, a Navajo father comes to the mic with his two sons -- all spirit runners along with the Apaches of San Carlos, Arizona. He gives a moving account of his acceptance by Apache Tribal Chairman Dr. Wendsler Nosie Sr. and his extended family. Almost crying, he shares his gratitude for being allowed and encouraged to run, eat, and feel at home as a guest on sacred land in Arizona.
This was a spiritual gathering with Nigos'dzan ("Mother Earth") among the oak trees of the Great Gathering Place, Hahamongna (Pasadegna, now Pasadena), in the foothills of tribal Los Angeles next to the glimmering Mars Ground Control that is JPL or NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (original Jack Parsons's Lab, a Satanic figure and good friend of Scientology's L. Ron Hubbard) at the headwaters of the Los Angeles River (formerly El Rio Porciuncula).This week Pasadena Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will vote on whether or not to grant the Apache Stronghold a restraining order on a corporate mining interest, Resolution Copper (RSC), that is seeking to acquire public land now part of the Tinto National Forest in Arizona to create a crater where a mountain now stands using "blockade" mining, which are controlled earthquakes meant to destroy, pulverize, and transport the land to a processing center to extract copper.
Apache Nation asks federal court to halt proposed copper mine at Oak Flat
(DemocracyNow.org, 10/25/21 edited by Wisdom Quarterly)
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| With a totem pole on the bed of a truck, Apache Stronghold is on a Spiritual Convoy |
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Indigenous advocates fighting to protect Oak Flat -- a historic site in eastern Arizona sacred to the San Carlos Apache Nation and other Native American communities -- argued their case against a proposed copper mine in federal court Friday. The legal efforts at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena are being led by the grassroots group, Apache Stronghold.
Native communities have long warned the massive copper mine would destroy Oak Flat, depriving them of their religious rights and other freedoms.
Dr. Wendsler Nosie Sr., founder of Apache Stronghold and former chair of the San Carlos Apache Nation, says: “We heard it loud and clear in Indian Country that anything on federal land is not safe. Nothing is holy, and nothing is sacred to them. That was clearly spoken. The [emotions] that run through us is the fact that it answers the question that we are still prisoners of war in this country.”
The copper mine is being run by Resolution Copper (RSC), a [foreign] joint venture of multi-national mining corporations BHP and Rio Tinto.
Defending the Sacred: Water Protectors
Amy Goodman (democracynow.org), Wisdom Quarterly
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