Court rules against Apaches in bid to halt proposed mine

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/court-rules-against-apaches-in-bid-to-halt-proposed-mine-ezVyp6BG60WpcNcPcyZhIg

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A federal judge has rejected a request from a group of Apaches to keep the U.S. Forest Service from transferring a parcel of land to a copper mining company.

Apache Stronghold made the request as part of a lawsuit it filed against the Forest Service earlier this year. It’s the latest attempt to preserve the land in eastern Arizona that Apaches consider sacred because of the spiritual properties there at least temporarily while the court hears arguments on the merits of the case.

U.S. District Judge Steven Logan said Friday that because the group is not a federally recognized tribe with a government-to government relationship with the United States, it lacks standing in arguing that the land belongs to Apaches under an 1852 treaty with the U.S.

Even read liberally, Logan said “the court cannot infer an enforceable trust duty as to any individual Indians.”

[safeinOhio]

1. In that case, I would hope that the

Tribe will take it up.