McCain to Hopi Navajo: All Your Lands Are Belongs to Us!
As a partial Hopi, this news really pisses me off. And you thought the 1820s Trail of Tears was a bitch...
"Navajo and Hopi families residing on Big Mountain and the surrounding area of the Black Mesa in northern Arizona may be forced to relocate as a new senate bill, S1003 "The Navajo Hopi Land Settlement Act Amendments of 2005," goes before Congress. If passed, the bill will permanently displace the Navajo and Hopi, and, according to a press release by the Black Mesa Indigenous Support organization, "relieve the federal government of any further responsibility for the relocated people." Sponsored by Senator John McCain, S1003 was initiated at nearly the same time as Peabody Coal, the world's largest coal company, expressed an interest in the Navajo land. Peabody Coal plans to expand its strip mining into this area, where billions of tons of low-sulfur coal are located."
If someone in the Free State Project is in the area, you might find some good recruiting opertunities in Northeast Arizona. Where's the AIM when you need it?
1 Comments:
Absolutely remarkable. I think the government has no idea that it doesn't own everything it can see.
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