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In a stunning action that was long overdue, a group of native Navajo Americans chased Senator John McCain out of the Navajo Nation capitol of Window Rock \u2014 making it perfectly clear he was unwelcome in the first place.<\/p>\n McCain was visiting the Nation in commemoration of Navajo Code Talker\u2019s day, and perhaps for a moment thought he would get by listening to polite pleas from Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye and Vice-President Jonathan Nez to back a Congressional appropriation to fund the construction of a Navajo Code Talkers Museum. According to a report from Native News Online.Net<\/strong><\/a>, however, the Nation\u2019s leaders chose the moment to focus on the EPA tragedy unfolding via the Gold King Mine spill into the Animas and San Juan Rivers.<\/p>\n Vice President Nez said the Navajo people naturally have a distrust of the government and noted the agency never formally apologized to the Navajo Nation for contaminating the tribal water source known as the \u201clifeline of the Navajo people.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Then came the kicker:<\/p>\n \u201cThis is just one mine out of hundreds and there\u2019s no Superfund designation,\u201d Vice President Nez said. \u201cRight now, we don\u2019t trust the U.S. EPA\u2019s data and their collection.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Rather than responding at the formal event, McCain and the Navajo Nation leadership, both Executive and Legislative branches, as reported by Dusty\u2019s Navajo Political Sphere, attempted to sneak off to the Navajo Nation Museum for a \u201csecret meeting<\/strong><\/a>\u201c:<\/p>\n \u201cAbout 60 protesters and or more ran John McCain out of Window Rock today. Code Talker day was celebrated today and in attendance were McCain, NN Executive Branch and NN Legislative Branch. The whole group left to attend a secret meeting with John McCain at the NN Museum. The group was met with protesters who made it clear that giving our water rights away will not happen under our watch. The meeting, I am told, did not happen. Delegates, McCain and others went out the side door.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThere were about 50 NN Police, as well as County Police. Protesters took off in cars and followed McCain to the airport. The bridge to the airport was closed off.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cBye John McCain! There are a lot of things on the Navajo Nation that our groups large and small are going to tackle. We cannot trust our Government, so we will make things right, ourselves.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Navajo mistrust of \u201cGovernment,\u201d especially McCain, is appropriate. Despite coming out recently in support of preventing a July \u201cdisposal\u201d round-up of wild mustangs<\/strong><\/a> from the Tonto National Forest, (perhaps due to the loud chorus of outrage which emanated from horse-lovers), McCain demonstrated his truly greedy and inconsiderate nature when it came to native concerns by introducing an 11th hour amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act ceding sacred Apache land, Oak Flat, to a foreign mining corporation<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n McCain got his first taste of active Navajo displeasure during a photo-op following the official Code Talker Day event with Adriano Tsinigine. Observe this priceless pic, as posted to protect Oak Flat activist organization Apache Stronghold:<\/p>\n When the senator saw the protest sign, he ordered Mr. Tsinigine to \u201cGet out of here, now!\u201d The irony is blissful when viewed in retrospect, for McCain was met at the museum by a vocal crowd of outraged Navajos who weren\u2019t about to let him quietly convene another closed-door meeting to bargain with the rights of their people. Protesters gained access to the museum and, though they were immediately subdued by police, by all appearances prevented McCain\u2019s meeting from happening. Watch him run from the truth in this terrific video captured at the scene:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Featured image from the Facebook page of Carol Davis<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" McCain Chased Off Reservation By Pissed-Off Navajo Activists (VIDEO) Chimene Hawes Reverb Press In a stunning action that was long overdue, a group of native Navajo Americans chased Senator John McCain out of the Navajo Nation capitol of Window Rock … Continue reading ![\"McCainIK1-708x350\"](\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/McCainIK1-708x350.jpg\")
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