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Caught On Tape: Native Americans Chase John McCain Off Navajo Land
Submitted by Derrick Broze via TheAntiMedia.org,
On Friday, August 14, Arizona Senator John McCain was confronted several times by Native activists and elders while visiting the Navajo Nation. McCain and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey were meeting with the Navajo at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock for an event honoring the Navajo Code Talkers of World War 2.
The governor and senator were also meeting with local Navajo officials to discuss their concerns about a new proposal regarding the Little Colorado River rights. Navajo Nation President Russell Begay told the Navajo Times that water was going to be a part of the talks.
“We’re going to talk about it,” he told the Times. “The message we want to convey to Arizona is a discussion. We want to begin dialogue on securing our claim.”
McCain has recently received criticism for his role in passing the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange bill as part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015. The law allows for the sale of the Oak Flat campground to international mining company, Rio Tinto. Oak Flat is historically important to the San Carlos Apache. MintPress News recently wrote:
“The Apache Stronghold formed in December in response to a last-minute legislative provision included in the the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015. The provision at issue in the annual Defense Department funding bill grants Resolution Copper Mining, a subsidiary of Australian-English mining giant Rio Tinto, a 2,400-acre land parcel which includes parts of the Tonto National Forest, protected national forest in Arizona where it will create the continent’s largest copper mine.
Some of those lands are considered sacred by multiple Native American communities, including the Oak Flat campground. The area is not recognized as part of the San Carlos Apache Reservation, but it has historically been used by the Apache for trading purposes and spiritual ceremonies.”
While McCain met with Ducey and the Navajo nation, activists with the Apache Stronghold — and other groups and nations — rallied outside the museum, holding signs that read “McCain = Indian Killer” and “McCain’s Not Welcome Here.” Eventually, the activists made their way inside the building, locking arms and chanting, “Water is life!”
Inside the museum, John McCain was rubbing elbows with Navajo leaders and snapping photos with the community. One person decided to take an opportunity to confront John McCain with a message about Oak Flat. That person was Adriano Tsinigine. Tsinigine, a high school senior carrying a “Protect Oak Flat” card, walked up to McCain for a picture. Tsinigine told the Phoenix New Times about his experience:
“‘I pulled out my [Protect] Oak Flat card,’ he says. When McCain noticed it, ‘He took it, looked at it, and threw it back at me. How disrespectful to me and to the Apache people. I fully respect McCain as a veteran . . . and as a POW and for sacrificing [what could have been] his life, but I do not respect him as a U.S. senator. As an elected official, he should listen to all of the voices of people, [even] the people who are protesting against him.’”
Senator McCain would later be interviewed about the Oak flat controversy. “Historians have attested to the facts that Oak Flat is not anything to do with sacred grounds,” he told 12 News. “Several historians have attested to that. I respect people’s right to disagree.”
As McCain attempted a backdoor exit, the activists chanted in the hallway with their arms linked. Once they noticed McCain’s convoy making an escape, the group began chasing on foot. They were temporarily blocked by law enforcement but eventually made their way out of the building, chasing the cars as they exited the Navajo nation.
Once news reports began circulating that John McCain was chased off Navajo land, the senator’s office released a response to the Phoenix New Times:
“Senator McCain was honored to be invited by the Navajo Nation to meet with tribal and community leaders and to speak at the celebration of the Navajo Code Talkers on Friday. It was a great visit and he received a very warm reception from the Navajo community in Window Rock. He certainly wasn’t ‘chased off’ the reservation – this small group of young protesters had no practical impact on his productive meetings with top tribal leaders on a range of key issues, including the EPA’s recent Gold King Mine spill which threatens to contaminate the Navajo Nation’s water supply.”
Despite the senator’s office denying that the protesters had any “practical impact” on his meeting, it is clear that a new community of Native activists is on the rise. This is only the latest in the reemergence of an active resistance to the colonization of Native peoples and First Nations.
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RubberJohnny
These collectivist societies tend to have trouble creating real change.
Since I previously stated I would keep my comments apolitical I will state that I fully support all Native Americans in filing any disputes and securing any claims relating to this legislation. Especially as they relate to any prior right of way access, use or preservation for historical, cultural or religious purposes.
I also support any towns, counties or other stakeholder that has a dispute or claim.
And I also support Congress in honestly and comprehensively including all these groups in reviewing, incorporating, honoring and enforcing any subsequent amendment created as a result of their disputes and claims.
Yeah, let's negotiate it through the 'law'. That has worked so well for First Nations is the past hasn't it...
Maybe we could go over some old treaties as well....
Hope you're ready to redraw some maps.
That's an interesting way you have chosen to reply to someone that has offered support. But I know I can empathize with your feelings and position that resulted in your reply. Your reply may be received by some as a variety of things like rude, offensive, insulting or cause someone to lose face depending someone's culture. But regardless of my cultural background I take no offense.
What I mean is not only in what I say and how I say it but also what I don't say. My message was carefully worded and is very meaningful. I have provided you with very few words but many avenues and means to unite those that support you if that is your intent. And additionally the ways and means to apply pressure or divide and conquer your adversaries or to hold accountable those that would fail to represent you. And even ways to possibly make your adversaries your friends. Based on your reply it appears you have only seen a very small portion of my efforts to guide you. Don't let your pain, frustration or anger cloud your vision or assist your adversaries in their efforts of dividing and conquering you or those that would support you or your efforts.
One key to the future potential successes for all Native Americans as well as Americans is located in Arizona where this particular dispute is taking place. But I will not provide details here. I have come not to believe at all in coincidence. There are many Americans and others around the world that would agree with the Native American quote below that, among other things, is pointing out the seemingly ever increasing hypocrisy of what is known as the rule of law in America. This too relates to the key above and my previous comment.
"Many proposals have been made to us to adopt your laws, your religion, your manners and your customs. We would be better pleased with beholding the good effects of these doctrines in your own practices, than with hearing you talk about them". - Old Tassel
Wado. I have learned more about Native American cultures today as a result of your reply.
I appreciate your reply and support. Sorry if my post came across as abrasive; I was in a pissy mood at the time, and my cynicism towards the government's adherence to laws and treaties is something I have to control.
From what I gathered in the story these angry protesters were young Apaches not Navaho. They were upset with McCain for selling sacred lands to international business. Makes sense. Historically, if you wanted pottery or a blanket buy it from the Navaho. If you wanted to be tortured and then die the most painful death possible go to the Apache. They have Cochise, Geronimo and Mangas Coloradas as honored chiefs that fought a bloody resistance. I can't name one leader among the Navaho that lead a rebellion. This is not a disrespectful comment against the great Navaho people just an observation.
Jeremiah Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lsZE8MpQZI
So nice to see McCanaan discomfited like this. He really needs to resign and go run for a seat in the Knesset, neocon Israeli mouthpiece that he is.
Finally the owners of this country wake up.
I would chase McCain out of my neighborhood. We have enough problems, without that SOB.
Mc Cain speaks with forked-tongue like the political snake that he is.
Meet the first class traitor.
McShame is zionist filth, a traitor to the US.
I would love to see McAnus's scalp hanging from the doors of Congress as a warning to the rest of the ZioNazi neocons.
The shame was that having decided to chase him the Navajo did not then catch him- better luck next time!
I wish somebody would just put a bullet between the demons eyes, and all his followers.
Wait a minute, is that the same John McCain as in "McCain-Finegold"? The same John McCain that wants big special interests like Rio Tinto out of politics? Trump was half right when he said the insurance companies own the politicians. He forgot to include miners in that sentence.
They gave McCain a new name they call him 'Running Seaman'
Semen.
LMAO...
Should have sent in Elizabeth Warren....just saying She'd a lit the old Peace Pipe Up with those Renegades and done some real negotiating. Never send a white man in to do an Injuns job.
What's a little arsenic in your water? I'm here to give you a tin medal for something you did 70 years ago. Something shiny to ease those arsenic cramps. Some things never change. When they say politicians are one trick ponies, man they are NOT lying. Shoulda scalped his ass.
McCain is a scumbag. An embarrassment to America and all Americans.
Hopefully Nature takes its course real soon on this POS one less air breathing scum to deal with when the time comes.
They weren't the first effing people. Kennewick man showed that Caucasians were here far before them injuns. Off our land redman!
Take your propaganda somewhere else.
"In June of 2015, new results of DNA analysis were announced which suggest that Kennewick Man is more closely related to modern Native Americans than to any other living population. He was particularly close to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation.
His Y-DNA halpogroup is Q-M3 and his mitochondrial DNA is X2-a, both uniparental genetic markers found almost exclusively in Native Americans."
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33170655
The land belongs to the Lord, our Creator. Secondly, we are all related to one another and easily fall into that trap of divide and conquer, the strategy of the devil since sin entered the world. Apart from Christ, the messiah, no man will enter into heaven. God bless you and everyone who suffers from the evil one and our own sin.
Great find. Feed the Twitter demand.
No rocks, no bottles? Naaah, they didn't chase anyone.
What would McCain know about native Amercan indians? Crap, he doesn't even know how to represent regular American citizens.
God I hate that fucker McCain, my full support to Indians.
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What more shocking than the fact that any black man can vote Democrat, is that any Native American can vote Democrat (Andrew Jackson, anyone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson#Indian_removal_policy)? But government propoganda, media collusion, and outright ignorance is a VERY powerful beast.
And don't remind me that McCain is supposedly an R. He sides with Democrats on almost everything, probably including their racist tendencies toward manifest destiny.
It was the Republicans in the North and their mass immigration policies which annihilated native Americans, they literally conscripted foreigners to fight the civil war and paid them with stolen Indian lands, after the war ended it was open season on native Americans and unlimited as hole invasions and water & resource takings again and again.
They always use the same script, appoint an agent to give out free shit, let him negotiate for everybody's property rights.
These Indians were smart to chase him off. McCain is an evil psychopath. He is a mass-murdering warmonger.
Notice the psychopaths practically labelled these young people as insignificant and might as well put them on a "terrorist" list.
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Makes one wonder if the "Gold King" mine was indeed done intentionally for many reasons. One being the EPA justifying its very existence and profiting off the sale of US assets, which McCain and Co have vested interest in.
By way of reminder from this ZH article; please read what the geologist wrote about the EPA's reasons for being there and how he outlined, before the fact, almost verbatim how this would be a disaster.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-12/did-epa-intentionally-poison-an...
The real John McCain:
John Mccain Exposed By Vietnam Vets And Pow'shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hr37eE0nO8
Maza sunska, sintea a hah!
Stake that old fucker down over a large red ant den for a couple of days, then slit his gut open, pull his guts out about 10 ft, stake the end of the gut down and let him watch the coyotes eat away!
He voted with that old fart Reagan to cut vets benefits in the 80's, voted to send young men to a war justified with lies! I could go on and on!
Ohhh! if they would have only captured him and taken him as a prisoner.
Seems like old times, hey grandpa?
John McCain is an arrogant piece of shit. I don' tknow if he was always like that, but for sure he is one now.
Do you see the smug look on his face as he tosses the card, that behaviour alone is reason why a man like this doesn't serve the publics best interest. He represents those people, not the fucking mining companies.
Now that money = free speech, McCain represents his donors, not the proles who live in his state. We are peasants now, and voting is just a quaint activity to distract us from the dictatorship by our betters. The Navajo and Apache have much to teach us about how we will be treated going forward.
Navajo 60% HIV+ 60% alcoholic drug addicts, socialist to the last man standing.