Apologize to Native Americans

[G_j]

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Apologize to Native Americans


This letter supports a campaign of the Friends Committee on National Legislation. It goes
to Congress.

To: Your Senators, Your Representatives

Dear _________________:

A bipartisan group or senators has now introduced S.J. RES. 37, which extends an apology
for past government misdeeds towards Native Americans. A companion resolution (H.J. RES.
98) has been introduced in the House.

These resolutions, if passed by Congress, will begin a long overdue process of
consideration of mistreatment of Indians and the historic neglect of their basic human
needs. They suffer grievous problems of health care, respect for their religious
traditions, and poverty.

I urge Congress the pass these resolutions and then give serious attention to solving
basic Native American problems and disabilites.

Sincerely yours

Your name and optional address

Written by PM 8/10/04

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This letter was released on 08/27/2004.
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[MrSlayer]

1. Indians

We all see black and white
When it comes to someone else's fight
No one ever gets involved
Apathy can never solve

FORCED OUT-Brave and Mighty
STOLEN LAND-They can't fight it
HOLD ON-To pride and tradition
Even though they know how much their lives are really missin'
WE'RE DISSIN THEM...

On reservations
A hopeless situation
Respect is something that you earn
Our indian brothers' getting burned
Original American
Turned into second class citizen

Cry for the Indians
Die for the Indians
Cry for the Indians
Cry, Cry, Cry for the Indians

Love the land and fellow man
Peace is what we strive to have
Some folks have none of this
Hatred and Prejudice

WARDANCE!!!

TERRITORY, It's just the body of the nation
The people that inhabit it make its configuration
PREJUDICE, Something we all can do without
Cause a flag of many colors is what this land is all about!!!!


As written and recorded by Anthrax

[Desertrose]

2. thanks for this G_j....

I am ashamed what my Senator(McCain) has done to the Navajo & Hopi re Black Mesa/Big Mountain........


1974 Relocation Act

The 1974 Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act was pushed through Congress by a group representing the coal-fired power industry, which believed their industry would benefit by having the U.S. government finance the eviction of all the people living in an area larger than the state of Rhode Island. In their rush to promote national energy self-sufficiency, Congress never considered where the people would go or how relocation would affect their lives. Nor did they consider the wishes of the people they planned to relocate. John McCain authored this "relocation" bill.


http://www.aics.org/BM/bm.html

1980 A Site for Relocation Purchased

The U.S. government purchases a uranium-contaminated site near Chambers, AZ as the "New Lands" for the evicted Dineh. This site qualified as a candidate for the Superfund cleanup after the worst RADIOACTIVE SPILL the world has ever known!
Instead of spending money for a cleanup, they thought it could be purchased for a very few dollars, and used for the "New Lands" for the evicted People!
The spill figures;
When = 1979, Jul. 16
Place = Church Rock, New Mexico
Parent company = United Nuclear
Cause = dam wall breach, due to differential foundation settlement
Released = 370,000 cubic METERS of radioactive water,
(that's 94 million gallons!)
PLUS 1,100 TONS of solids from a uranium mine tailing pond
Contaminated = Contamination of land area as well as Rio Puerco river sediments up to
110 km downstream
And - a prior spill from the same source - and contaminating the same land - but
to a lesser extent than the one later. Note: the term "Lesser extent" is used only
in comparing these two spills to each other - both spilled deadly radiation onto
the lands that the BIA has choosen for the relocation site!!!!
1976, Apr. 1
Place = Church Rock, New Mexico
Company = Kerr-McGee
Cause = dam failure, due to differntial settlement of foundation soils
Released = "minor quantity"
Contaminated = ???????
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/KillingOurOwn/KOO9.html Excellent, but long
description of the spill

[G_j]

3. that is where I originally know McCain from

in the eighties I became seriously involved in the 'Big Mountain' movement. I wrote him dozens of letters. My first impression of McCain was through this. Not a good impression at all! He is not a friend to to American Indians.
This is someone who had continued to defend his use of the word "Gook".

BTW, Kerry was one of the few in Congress at that time with a sympathetic ear. I still am grateful to him for that!

Thanks DR
:loveya: G_j

[Desertrose]

4. glad to hear that about Kerry

that is cool!!!

Yeah ,McCain :puke: mutter mutter mutter...that mutter mutter piece of mutter mutter

didn't know you were working in the Big Mountain movement...I was back east then...all busy with youngun's:)

:loveya: :hi::hug:
DR

[Nevernose]

7. Are Navajos getting a billion dollars for opening a solar factory there?

Is the Navajo nation getting a billion dollars for opening a solar factory there? This was the headline of a paper in the vending machine I passed while I was on vacation through that area a few weeks ago. Supposdely on the site of an old uranium mine?

[G_j]

8. I really don't know

but that sounds like it would be a great thing!

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Definitely a necessity! (Winona LaDuke for Sec'y of the Interior)

[Desertrose]

6. I saw Winona when she endorsed Kucinich

at the DinéBidziil coalition meeting last January in NM.


I agree....she'd be great as Sec of the Interior, wouldn't she? what a great thought!!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. And I bet Dennis would have been glad to put her in that position

Now if only we can convince President Kerry!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. It was all those illegal immigrants that came in the 16th century.

Took all the low paying jobs, didn't pay taxes, always asking for handouts, didn't bother to learn the native language, screwed up the neighborhoods, set up their own religious schools, and just generally didn't give anything back.

Should'a closed the borders and really enforced the immigration laws.