McCain can not be trusted..SB2109 legislation

McCain is no friend to the Diné Nation, and should never be trusted. Numerous non-educated Diné leaders in office have been played but this generation is alert, ready, and on their toes.

McCain is a double talker. McCain uses the Bible, and calls himself a Baptist believer. He does not have one ounce of Bible in him, no compassion, no love, no justice, and not a care for anyone but himself.

God will judge his dark soul. Any man who uses the Bible for gain is going to face the wrath of God.

Jon Kyl, he is a real idiot only out for himself. This guy cannot be trusted in any way. This individual is only out to fill his pockets, and acquire riches by any means.

Preying on non-educated Diné leaders is over. I say no more to non-educated Diné leaders in office.

Ben Shelly should not have ever attended the meeting in the first place with these thieves. Why did you give ear to these liars? What kind of leader gives ears to such terms, which hurt our sovereign rights to our land (home), natural resources, and freedom?

The United States of America owe the Diné Nation billions for the resources they took from our land. We should be the wealthiest tribal nation in America. We got taken, and let's not have this come to pass yet again.

One white Mormon individual received $1 million for his work at Peabody coal years ago. What did Diné Nation get? Nothing!

We have men in sheep's clothing wanting to hurt our rights, freedom, and land. We need to trust no one outside our beloved Dine Nation.

This is our land, our history, our traditions, our pride, and our ancestors' land. This land belongs to our future Diné young people.

Sophie Scholl

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."
— Sophie Scholl

Here's to Now by Ugly Casanova

Ecclesiastes by Solomon

Here we go again….

com·pas·sion n

sympathy for the suffering of others, often including a desire to help

Republican and Democrats playing games with the lives of American people. We have people supporting republican leaders because they are worried about their MONEY and power. Many of these people are Christians (Claim to be) and that is a real shame.

Life is unfair and it hurts many people. I want to share a little with you from the Bible about a great man who had everything (riches) Bill Gates can only dream about. This man is Solomon who wrote his observations (about the unfairness of life) in the book Ecclesiastes Chapter three verses sixteen to seventeen.

In Verse sixteen he mentions “…place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there”.

Solomon was talking about corruption in places of judgment- like our courts our government, our Nations. Some of our leaders only want what works for them that allows for them to keep what they have- power and money….It remains our challenge to stand for the oppressed. To speak up, speak out and hold our leaders accountable.

Those of you who call yourselves Christians need to understand in verse seventeen “...God shall judge righteous and the wicked:” Remember every work shall be judged. Caucasian European (Not all Caucasians) love for money and power will be judge by God, especially those who claim to be Christians (those in office using God) and actually think they are making a stand for what is right. In reality many poor oppressed people in American will suffer with no Health Care and no jobs.

Now here is the Challenge for every person who claims to know God. Solomon in Ecclesiastes chapter four verse one sheds light on oppression. We have endured every cruelty from European immigrates who used the “manifest destiny” to harm and steal from native peoples. The oppressed “tears” in chapter four goes unnoticed because Christians rather hang on to their political beliefs, which have nothing to do with the Bible. Shame.

Whoa! Do you see what’s going on here? Navajo Nation keep your guards up no matter what or who is in office. Christians should be the first to help the oppressed who experience injustice and hurt.

Pat Robinson needs to look at the injustice done to native nations and those who live in shacks below Phoenix, Arizona. Is every person cursed because someone did something wrong? Native people living in shacks because of European disease called prejudice. Where are the Christians who called themselves followers of Christ?

Steven Newcomb: Tricking Indians out of land

Steven Newcomb: Tricking Indians out of landMonday, August 24, 2009Filed Under: Opinion "In an article published in “The Journal of Libertarian Studies” in 1983, Carl Watner examined the subject of American Indian land rights. He began with a quote from Rosalie Nichols, a fan of Ayn Rand. When asked “if the Indians had ever had a title deed to North America,” Nichols replied: “Who should have issued them one, I don’t know, unless it was the buffalo.”
Nichols’ response used ridicule as an effective and skillful technique for dehumanizing American Indians. This was accomplished by creating a red herring, or false issue: the impossibility of the buffalo having ever given a paper title deed to the Indians.
The comment also was no doubt intended to evoke the issue of literacy and the observation that most American Indian nations did not use a written language system prior to the Europeans arriving. The underlying assumption is that “intelligent” people (i.e., Europeans) use a written language, and since American Indian cultures in North America did not use a written language they were not “intelligent.”
By focusing the reader’s attention on the image of a title deed, a very specific kind of written document unknown to American Indian cultures, Watner skillfully avoided a much more general question: Did the Indians have an original right to the lands of North America? By not posing this question, Watner left a void where the question would have been.
If Watner had asked in a straightforward manner whether the American Indians had a right to the lands in North America where they had been living for thousands of years, the common sense answer would be an unequivocal “yes.”
But once that question had been answered, the answer would create a firm presumption that would need to be explained away before European land claims to the continent could make any sense."

Steven Newcomb: The Christian invasion 'right'

Steven Newcomb: The Christian invasion 'right'Friday, July 31, 2009Filed Under: Opinion "At its 76th General Convention in Anaheim, Calif., July 8 – 17, the Episcopal Church adopted a resolution entitled, “Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.” I’d like to discuss the significance of the resolution in relation to the efforts by indigenous nations to protect their sacred places. The Black Hills, Mt. Graham, the Go-Road in Northern California, Yucca Mountain and San Francisco Peaks are the most well known, but there are certainly many others throughout the continent.
Since they first arrived, Christian Europeans worked hard to cut the ties of indigenous nations to their traditional lands. Attacking their languages and ceremonial traditions in the name of Christianity was a key means of attempting to sever the ongoing spiritual relationship that indigenous nations maintained for many thousands of years with their most sacred places and territories.
Non-Indian court rulings have also significantly affected Indian nations. And the most foundational court decisions are historically grounded in the ancient view that Christians had the right to locate, invade and capture lands anywhere in the world, provided the lands were inhabited by non-Christians.
This religiously premised claim of a Right of Christian Invasion leads to an important question: “Is the ancient claim that Christians have the right to locate, invade and assume territorial dominion over the lands of non-Christian nations a legitimate source of U.S. law in the 21st century?” The answer from the Episcopal Church resolution is, “No, it isn’t a legitimate source of U.S. law.”"

Steven Newcomb: How to rid Indians of land

Steven Newcomb: How to rid Indians of landFriday, October 2, 2009Filed Under: Opinion "Alpheus Snow, in his book “The Administration of Dependencies,” examined “the Evolution of the Federal Empire” of the United States, “with Special Reference to Colonial Problems.” How to get Indian land has always been a central colonial issue for the United States. This is otherwise known as “the Indian problem,” or, how to get the land away from the Indian nations that first possessed it.
Territory is of critical importance to the colonial problem of the United States. Snow said that from the “earliest time” the meaning of the word “territory” had been disputed. Based on a number of Latin writers dating back to the Roman Empire, Snow traced the concept of “territory” to the Latin word “terreo,” “to hold a place in subjection through terror, or excessive fear.”
From this perspective, the more accurate spelling of “territory” would be “terror-tory,” meaning, “a region or place held under subjection or control through the use of terroristic force against the people.” A successful war of terror results in an expanded “terror-tory” (territory).
Snow said the double suffix “torium” resulted in the whole word “toritorim,” the literal meaning in Latin being, “a place pertaining to a person who holds in subjection through terror or excessive fear.” A toritorim is a place that is held “through awe, or dread.” The more benign and euphemistic sounding meaning would be, “a place subject to the exclusive control of a person (such as a Lord), or a political community.”
All this leads to a troubling but quite logical conclusion. Behind the “Doctrine of Discovery” and the claim of a unilateral U.S. “plenary power” over Indian nations is the claimed “right” of Christian terror-torial sovereignty. This can be characterized as the presumed right by a “Christian prince or people” to invasively use terroristic force against non-Christians (heathens and infidels)."