Nice forum Myrna,

I like to share a national park, next door to the community I grew up.
Ocmulgee National Park

The area that entails Ocmulgee National Monument has seen human visitation, as well as habitation, for nearly 10,000 years. However, the Indian mounds that it is famous for were built between 900 to 1100 AD during the early part of what is known as the Mississippian Era (1000 AD and continuing until the 1500s). The Mississippian time period is marked by the rise of villages, as the nomadic way of life was dying and agriculture and the domestication of livestock took over. The village at the “Old Ocmulgee Fields,” as the area was once called, grew to an estimated population of around one thousand people.
Jan aka Jaz

Thank you Phil, Sarah and Jan for you posts. This next post is music to my heart. Times are a changing.

Contemporary Issues

McCain Chased Off Reservation By Pissed-Off Navajo Activists (VIDEO)

August 16, 2015 Red Power Media, Staff 8 Comments

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 capital of Window Rock — making it perfectly clear he was unwelcome in the first place.

McCain was visiting the Nation in commemoration of Navajo Code Talker’s 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, however, the Nation’s leaders chose the moment to focus on the EPA tragedy unfolding via the Gold King Mine spill into the Animas and San Juan Rivers.

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 “lifeline of the Navajo people.”

“This is just one mine out of hundreds and there’s no Superfund designation,” Vice President Nez said. “Right now, we don’t trust the U.S. EPA’s data and their collection.

Rather than responding at the formal event, McCain and the Navajo Nation leadership, both Executive and Legislative branches, as reported by Dusty’s Navajo Political Sphere, attempted to sneak off to the Navajo Nation Museum for a “secret meeting“:

“About 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.

“There 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.

“Bye 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.”

The Navajo mistrust of “Government,” especially McCain, is appropriate. Despite coming out recently in support of preventing a July “disposal” round-up of wild mustangs 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.

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:

When the senator saw the protest sign, he ordered Mr. Tsinigine to “Get out of here, now!” The irony is blissful when viewed in retrospect, for McCain was met at the museum by a vocal crowd of outraged Navajos who weren’t 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’s meeting from happening. Watch him run from the truth in this terrific video captured at the scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlkEraYbUko

I read about that last night Myrna. I was not aware the Native Americans disliked John McCain that much.

pat

Hi Pat,
I didn't know that either, but I think they all have reason to watch him. I missed a photo so check it out it makes more sense.
There is so much they we do not know about. Meaning the truth. We are told so many things that are false and now we are waking up to truth.

McCain has NO PERSONAL credibility, outside of being a prisoner of war. He has some sort of 'reasoning glitch' that is stuck in the 'git em mood'