Reply #9: His refusal to address the situation humanely

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and call for an end to the forced relocation.

from another sourse,
http://www.blackmesais.org/relocatethisupdated0512.htm


Arizona Senator and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs John McCain is the main sponsor of the Senate Bill 1003, The Navajo- Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974 Amendments. This bill puts a renewed emphasis on forced relocation of Navajo families and represents a denial by the federal government of continuing responsibility to the people relocated. In addition to the problems faced by all Dineh, the people in the New Lands or in other places do face additional burdens related to this devastatingly and abysmally managed process.

Read or listen to the transcripts regarding S. 1003, The Navajo- Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974 Amendments. In 2000, McCain denied knowledge & evaded questions on the relocation issue. He was the main sponsor of a similar bill in 1996. Accommodation Agreement (P.L. 104-301). He talks rhetoric about honoring 'Indian Treaties' while sponsoring racist genocidal policies and violating human rights in his 'home state'. Read his position in reply to a student letter during the presidential campaign.



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John McCain was elected as a Republican in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress; reelected to the Ninety-ninth Congress in 1984 and served from January 3, 1983, to January 3, 1987; elected to the United States Senate in 1986; reelected in 1992, 1998 and in 2004 for the term ending January 3, 2011; chair, Committee on Indian Affairs (One Hundred Fourth Congress; One Hundred Ninth Congress), Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (One Hundred Fourth through One Hundred Sixth Congresses, One Hundred Seventh Congress , One Hundred Eighth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000. (Source.)