Stealing Oak Flat without Apology

Here is a great piece by Mark Charles about the loss of sacred Apache lands:

The Stealing of Oak Flat & the Trauma of the Doctrine of Discovery

It notes that both the theft of Oak Flat and a general apology for taking Indigenous lands have been buried is Defense Appropriation Bills in the past.  Charles also discusses the Doctrine of Discovery and its relation to the US Supreme Court in Johnson v M’Intosh.

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About Stephen Carr Hampton

Stephen Carr Hampton is an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation, an avid birder since age 7, and a former resource economist for the California Department of Fish & Game, where he worked as a tribal liaison and conducted natural resource damage assessments and oversaw environmental restoration projects after oil spills. He writes most often about Native history and contemporary issues, birds, and climate change.
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