“In the of Heart of the Apache Nation: Protecting Oak Flat" - (2/7/2019)

American Indian Airwaves

Thursday, 2/7/2019, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) Listen at: http://www.kpfk.org Exclusive Interview “In the of Heart of the Apache Nation: Protecting Chi’Chil’Ba’Goteel (The Oak Flat Area) from the Corporate Pathology of the Resolution Copper Mine & the 5th Annual Save Oak Flat March (2/7/2019-2/10/2019)” Part 1:_______________________________________ Wendsler Nosie Sr. (San Carlos Apache Nation), activist, organizer, and former San Carlos Apache Nation tribal councilmember, joins us for this one-hour exclusive interview on the immediate urgency and support to protecting the Chi’Chil’Ba’Goteel (The Oak Flat Area), a sacred site under threat from the Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton joint-venture Resolution Copper Mine (RCM). Unless stopped, the RCM will commence construction and operations in 2020, desecrate and destroy a critically important sacred site to Apache Nations and surrounding Indigenous peoples and having permanent intergenerationally cultural losses, harms, and compounded forms of colonial historical trauma. In addition, Wendsler Nosie Sr. covers the 5th Annual Save Oak Flat March happening from February 7th, 2019 to February 10th, 2019, a gathering for helping defend and protect Mother Earth and the Chi’Chil’Ba’Goteel (Oak Flat Area). The Resolution Copper Mine, if constructed, will be about 7,000-feet deep (approximately five Empire State buildings), the largest copper mine in the United States; within 50 years, the RCM will leave a crater in Mother Earth two and a half miles wide and 1,000 feet deep, and produce 1.6 billion tons of toxic mining waste. Moreover, Resolution Copper Mine is receiving 2,422 acres of the Tonto National Forest lands, which includes Oak Flat, for free and is exempted from federal environmental laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act because of former United States President Obama signing the National Defense Authorization Act 2015 (NDAA). The NDAA included the rider, “Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act” and the Act was inserted in to the NDAA 2015 without the free, prior, and informed consent of the Apache Nation and its citizens. Wendsler Nosie Sr. provides an informative, profound, and urgent interview about the crucial urgency to protect the Chi’Chil’Ba’Goteel (Oak Flat Area) before RCM receives the land in 2020 and begins construction. For more information about the walk: http://apache-stronghold.com/ Exclusive Indigenous Musical Premiere: “Black Snake Killaz” by Sallee Free, a new song of her forthcoming solo EP being released on March 20th, 2019. American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Mondays 3pm-4pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org. Archived American Indian Airwaves programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/