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(Advances
Magazine - February 5, 2008)
A public research
website: http://www.cain2008.org
has brought together diverse historical elements of factual proof that
Senator John McCain's was the key "point man" introducing,
enacting and enforcing law
that removed Dineh-Navajo Families from their reservation on the
Black Mesa in Arizona. The McCain revised law relocated them to Church's Hill,
Nevada (a Nuclear Waste Superfund Site, called "the New Lands" in PL
93-531). The Dineh-Navajo, a deeply spiritual and peaceful people, engaged in only peaceful resistance to
being moved off lands they'd owned since 1500 A.D. Nonetheless, the
Public Press and UN depicted brutalization, rights deprivation and
forcible relocation.
 According
to the website (and the United Nations studies) a small band of
Indians claiming to be of the "Hopi-Navajo" band (an
impossibility as Hopi is the parent culture of all Indian tribes), consisting of 3-5
local Arizona individuals assembled originally by Kennecott attorney John Boyden,
Esq (Kennecott is a predecessor owner of the Peabody Western Group)
and Congressman Wayne Owens, progressively laid claim to more and
more of the lands actually owned by the "Dineh-Navaho" and subsequently
offered the "Dineh's" coal rights to Peabody Western Group at
nominal cost, while laws enacted by McCain, the Senate and signed
into law, forced the relocation of the Dineh-Navajo.
Senator McCain and his predecessors introduced legislation (S1973-1
and S.1003) which they claimed were justified by what has turned out
to be a non-existent range war between the Dineh (mainly consisting
of grandfathers and grandmothers in their 70's living on farmlands
that had belonged to their tribe since 1500 AD) and the Hopi (the
3-5 individuals rapidly assembled to assist Peabody Western Group by
Senator McCain, Congressman Owens and John Boyden).
Subsequently, as the Dineh were removed from their farms by the
"Relocation Commission" authorized by the US Senate at the behest of
the revisions to the Public Law 93-531 introduced as S.1973-1 (1996
Partition) and S.1003 (2001 and 2005 accelerated removal of the
Dineh by amendment) by Senator McCain, expanded Coal Mining Rights
to their lands were granted to Peabody Western who with Bechtel
Corp, have been mining the lands formerly occupied by the Dineh, and
piping the coal to the Mohave Generating Station in Nevada, which
serves the Las Vegas and Reno areas power needs. A map of the Mining
and Piping operations are found depicted below.
Not that long ago, the United Nations performed a Human Rights
Investigation of the forced Navajo resettlement from Arizona to
Nevada, under Special Rapporteur A. Amor. A law revised and
submitted to Congress by Senator John McCain and others before him
was determined to be the root cause of violations, which after
ratification by President Clinton in 1999 during a globally
publicized sit in by Songstress Julia Butterfly Hill at Big
Mountain, Arizona. The enactment led to the removal of the Dineh
band of Navajo from the Black Mesa to free the lands up to mining,
and could lead to relocation of the Dineh-Navaho from Big Mountain,
all based on a tissue of deceit, false claims of prior ownership by
a small group of paid Arizona locals of Indian descent led by one
Wayne Taylor, working for McCain and Peabody. To quote the UN
website
(http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/mgroups/wedo.htm#dineh)
:
"The Black Mesa
region in Arizona, USA is home to the indigenous communities of
the Dineh (Navajo) and Hopi peoples. This region also contains
major deposits of coal which are being extracted by North
America's largest strip mining operation. The coal mines have
had a major impact on families in the region. Local water
sources have been poisoned, resulting in the death of livestock.
Homes near the mines suffer from blasting damage. The coal dust
is pervasive, as well as smoke from frequent fires in the
stockpiles. Not coincidentally, the people in the area have an
unusually high incidence of kidney and respiratory disease. "
"The Dineh (otherwise known as Navajo) were stripped of all land
title and forced to relocate. Their land was turned over to the
coal companies without making any provisions to protect the
burial or sacred sites that would be destroyed by the mines.
People whose lives were based in their deep spiritual and
life-giving relationship with the land were relocated into
cities, often without compensation, forbidden to return to the
land that their families had occupied for generations. People
became homeless with significant increases in alcoholism,
suicide, family break up, emotional abuse and death. "
-- Marsha Monestersky for the UN Commission on Human Rights and Women
Enacting Change at the UN
"The forcible relocation of over 10,000 (Dineh) Navajo people is
a tragedy of genocide and injustice that will be a blot on the
conscience of this country for many generations."
-- Leon Berger, Executive Director, Navajo-Hopi Indian Relocation
Commission upon resignation in 2001
"I feel that in relocating these elderly people, we are as bad
as the Nazis that ran the concentration camps in World War II."
-- Roger Lewis, federally appointed Dineh Relocation Commissioner upon
resignation in 1998
"I believe that the forced relocation of Navajo and Hopi people
that followed from the passage in 1974 of Public Law 93-531 is a
major violation of these people's human rights. Indeed this
forced relocation of over 12,000 Native Americans is one of the
worst cases of involuntary community resettlement that I have
studied throughout the world over the past 40 years."
-- Thayer Scudder, Professor of Anthropology, California Institute of
Technology in a letter to Mr. Abdelfattah Amor, UN Special
Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance in 1999
According to
http://www.cain2008.org, as verified by the Library of Congress and
the Congressional Record, Senator McCain, as author and as chair of
the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, created the final agreement
and amended 1974 Act as captained through the Senate in 1996.
Senator McCain proposed a land partitioning scheme which led to the
construction of a fence along the Dineh Range blocking their ability
to field range their cattle (PL S.1973-1 1996 Dineh Proposal for
Land Partitioning), eventually leading to seizure of their cattle
for bridging the fence, and capping of their wells, which water was
then sequestered for use by Peabody Western Group.
In what can only be
called a miscarriage of justices, a grossly misinformed Supreme
Court
(http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/01-1375.pdf)
unfortunately upheld the right of Peabody Western Group to mine the
lands vacated by the Dineh under the law that forcibly relocated
them, and for the Dineh to be compensated for only $2500 per farm
seized by Peabody for mining under the auspices of the Bureau of
Mines, royalties paid solely to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the
Navaho Resettlement Act P.L. 93-531 (as amended). License fees for
coal under Dineh lands were never turned over to the Dineh-Navajo by
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and have simply just "disappeared"
according to the budget director of the BIA, allegedly used for
contractor cleanups of Peabody's strip mines (cit. ref. on
http://www.cain2008.org).
In its 2007 study of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee's support
for Peabody's mine and tapping of wells for mining in the Dineh's
territories, the current Special Rapporteur's (Hon. Abdel. Amor)
office of the UN Human Rights Commission is quoted as stating :
"There are other detrimental impacts due to government failure to
enforce environmental regulations. The presence of the mine and the
use of the water source were destroying the Navajo and Hopi
cultures. Both the aquifer and the land are sacred to the Hopi and
Navajo tribes." (see UN website).
The ACSA website "Am I My Brother's Keeper" (http://www.cain2008.org)
goes into the greatest detail of the history of this tragic series
of events, accurately showing how Senator McCain and others
capitalized on the tragic relocation of the gentle tribe of
artisans, elders and grandmothers that has had such horrible
consequences.
The ACSA believes in this Election Year that the behavior of each
and every candidate or any political affiliation be brought to light
in the Public Eye.
ACSA has determined that the law in question (25 U.S.C. 640d-11) has
been amended many times, since it's introduction by Congressman
Wayne Owens, and signed into law by President Gerald Ford in 1974.
Among the key amendments introduced by Senator McCain were the organization of a Hopi-Navajo
Resettlement Commission (a Commission actually charged with
relocating the Dineh-Navaho) and modifying the Settlement allegedly
agreed to by the Hopi-Navajo to remove any Dineh who sought
sanctuary legally under their membership in the Hopi "parent
culture" of all Indians in America. These and other amendments
were introduced by Senator McCain as public
law in 1996 through 1999, and some were submitted to the Senate and House in 2005 as PL
S.1003, subsequently incorporated into the language of the 2005
amendment of 25 U.S.C. 40d-11, all to rig the situation for the
Senator's sponsors, Peabody Western Coal Company (Peabody Group
today) and Bechtel, who operates the Mohave Generating Station, so
they could more easily remove the coal from the Dineh-Navaho's
rightful properties.
Within the legal maneuverings of Senator McCain, the non-existent
tribal counsel, called: the "Hopi-Navajo Counsel", made up
of Peabody Group proxies of local Kayenta, Arizona area origin, surfaced
false claims of prior ownership and eminent domain, and then
successfully testified before the Senate (the Dineh were not invited
to testify about their own fate before the Senate
by Senator McCain, leading to a hue and cry in 1999) and demanded the removal of the rightful landowners, the
Dineh-Navajo, claiming "encroachment on lands granted us by
President Chester A. Arthur." They demand completion of the removal
of the Dineh-Navaho from the Black Mesa and Big Mountain.
Or
course, as it turns out, the term "Hopi" refers to all Indians
everywhere in the USA, and not any single tribal unit. The testimony
by alleged "Hopis" from Arizona who count in number some five
individuals, has with the help of Senator McCain, managed to testify
at every hearing without the Senate every once questioning whether
such a tribe exists, or whether it has rights to the territories
which, now with many of the Dineh-Navajo having been forcibly
removed, some 25,000 families and growing, are now being mined by
Peabody Group in Black Mesa, with its sights set on Big Mountain.
For an example of testimony by the fake Hopi tribal counsel: leader
Wayne Taylor, at Senate Hearings on the forcible resettlement of the
Dineh Navajo, tried to claim encroachment of lands he claimed "were
occupied by our people for 1000 years", falsely alleging that the
Navajo were relative newcomers. The claims are historical
falsehoods, as the Navajo and all Indian Tribes of America are
sub-units of the overall Hopi, which term refers to all Indian
Tribes.
(see Wayne Taylor's statement before the Senate:
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096411336)
The behavior by
Senator John McCain in manipulating the laws and circumstances of
this horrific affair is pervasively criminal, in the ACSA's opinion,
and also quite worthy of the prosecution and incarceration of
Senator McCain, and his associates in sponsorship of the bills, the
proxy Hopi "wooden indians" bought and paid for by McCain and
Peabody, and the profiteering from the coal mining of the Black
Mesa, for Criminal Fraud, Conspiracy and Misconduct of Office.
ACSA would further not be in a position to hand McCain any
endorsement in his Presidential run, we opine and consider his
election, the election of a known criminal, would ultimately damage
the United States in ways as of yet not conceived.
Hence: http://www.cain2008.org "Am I My Brother's Keeper" -- visit
it and view a remarkable film online for free: VANISHING PRAYER,
which film cinematically documents many of the tragic events that
led to this ongoing Holocaust.
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ACSA challenges Senator McCain on his legislative history of Human
Rights Violations: "a Skeleton in his closet: UNFIT to hold public
office!"