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An Emotional Tour: Beck Visits Distressed Navajo Nation to Show Support
- Posted on August 21, 2012 at 8:37pm by
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Over the weekend, Glenn Beck took a tour through the distressed Navajo Nation — a region ravaged by hunger and poverty — to speak with the people about their daily hardships. In an effort to improve the lives of those on the reservation, Beck hopes to work closely with the Nation moving forward.
“Our situations have reversed. When we first came to this land, we were the ones struggling, we were the ones that were hungry, we were the ones that may not make it through the winter,” Beck said.
His charitable organization, Mercury One, has also delivered much needed food and aid to the area. Watch the emotional segment below:
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Hoax And Chains
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:32pmThe Navajo… a proud people with a proud history until we came here from Europe. They even tried to adapt and get along. Sad. Even after they helped us as code talkers during WWII… our government still puts the screws to them. I don’t know about prayer. God seems to be pretty selective with what prayers he answers and what ones he does not. Faith? They say faith moves mountains. I agree. But bring a shovel. Thanks Glenn for showing that private citizens can more readily do what the Federal government is too inept to accomplish… no matter how many of our tax dollars bleeding heart liberals think we should give.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 11:12pmIt is good to see that Thanksgiving can be a 2 way street. It looks like the country around Shiprock
Report Post »SharonIsCaring
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 12:56amhttp://www.itbn.org/index/detail/lib/Networks/sublib/TBN/ec/xkdWUzMzrosKwxHTja–Qv3Nj2CpdyTl (see with your own eye’s) what science and forensic’s found from the SHROUD OF CHRIST.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 2:39amROFL :) Kumbayah…
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 7:31amAre we all Navajos now?
Report Post »LuvsYeshua
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:40amOur hearts certainly do need to go out to these tribes, but they need more than just their bellies filled. They need something I fear mormons may not be able to bring them: the promise of forgiveness and redemption of Jesus Messiah = hope for tomorrow. I grew up among many natives in the northern midwest and they are as pagan as anything you read about in the Old Testament. They have festivals and Pow-Wows that literally call down spirits. They worship animals, trees, seasons, the sun, the sky, and about everything else, yet they can’t see how that is blaspheming the Living God and inviting judgment through pestilence, poverty, addiction, and everything else that has plagued them.
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:20amAnd yet we continue rebuilding countries in the middle east.
Report Post »Master K
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:04amGod doesn’t always answer prayers with a “yes.“ So many people seem to think that if God answers with a ”no“ or a ”not yet, just wait” then he must not be answering prayers at all. Leave it in the Lord’s hands. He’s wiser than we are.
Report Post »OLDPAINT
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 11:55amGo East young man, Go East. I wonder how I missed this story? Visit your roots back east too Glenn. No more ‘walks in Central Park.‘ You’ve got friends here now, buddy!
Report Post »North_Star
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:29pmPlease visit the Hopi too.
Report Post »AnAmericanToo
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:41pmI agree — visit the Hopi and Zuni. Then head north to the Lakota/Dakota and to the Crow Nation in Montana.
THANKS Glenn for including Indigenous Peoples in the food supplies. THANKS for your very kind words about Indigenous Peoples.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 1:41amREAL HISTORY: When the Chinese came to Japan, and became the Japanese Lords, they killed and enslaved the “black” natives; When the Chinese came to America, and became Indians, without natives here, they fought each other. When the Europeans came to America, the Indians liked the things that they brought… and then they fought and tried to kill them. Texas is a great example… the Savage Indian Culture.
Take the Progressive rewrite of history… and shove it!
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 6:25am@lukerw
I don’t believe Native Americans HAVE to stay on the reservation anymore. They are free to become regular Americans and work for a living. You don’t have to lose your traditions when you step off the reservations. They choose that life. It‘s just proving that socialism doesn’t work, government hand outs only keep you alive, you don’t thrive on them. America better take a look at those reservations that the government pays everything for. It’s what the rest of America will look like under Obama.
Report Post »pdw
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 9:38amHope this opens the eyes of more people to help as individuals to help end more of this country’s problems as our government is not the way to get things done. There are other tribes that should be helping their own people more also, but then I do not know but what they are already doing so, I do hope they are. Our government has only helped take from them and keep speaking with forked tongue.
Report Post »king1
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 11:04amthx1138v2 – I grew up next to the isleta reservation in new mexico they are in poverty mainly because what is the reason for their existance – they get money from the gov not much cause when the gov has you they forget about you they do not own the land the tribe does so many times there are limits to what you can do according to tribal law – manys sprits are broken many promises by the govment have been made but not kept sound familar. I love my indian brothers I grew up with my father was a bia teacher they are good peaceful honest people that have been wronged not directly by what the american people have done but what the american people have not done to control government.
Report Post »bigmouthmom
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:27pmI am glad to see Beck helping here. I have read the comments and while I agree that some of the people have continued letting the government take care of them (loosely speaking), but had they not been rounded up like lesser than humans to begin with things today would be different. Most American Indians are a very proud people, hard workers and very spiritual. Many know that a government hand out is just another way of controlling them and want no part of it. Just think, being forced from of your home, militarily forced into government controlled unfamiliar lands to live (which many were terrible for farming), and punished for your traditions and celebrations. Before condemning them for remaining in poverty maybe you should walk a mile in their shoes. Good job Beck and Mercury One for being wise enough to understand or at least try to.
Report Post »OhSuzieQ
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:37am@BigMouthMom (LOL)
I totally agree with ya 200%.
Report Post »Delores at CH WV
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:16pmGives me more reason to support Mercury One. Prayer is the answer too.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 12:05amGod bless u Glenn & all that help @ Mercury 2 feed the ppl, god bless
Report Post »Jezreel
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:11pmThe American Indians got a really raw deal when Europeans and British came to our country. Even after the American revolution, our lawmakers abused the native Americans and carried on slaughter and broke treaties. You don’t see this American natives behaving like the black Americans with violence and crime. True, they have their issues with drinking etc and suffer but they are not low life like others who claim to be mistreated by the white man.
Report Post »thx1138v2
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:24pmAnd this is the same way they will treat YOU when you surrender your rights and become totally dependent on the U.S. government. Alcoholism was the single most pervasive medical problem in the Soviet Union also – in comes from having no hope for a better future.
No one in America need go overseas to see what communism does to the populace. It is right here in America. Before you go vote, go visit an American Indian community and really talk to the people. Ask them about medical services – THAT is ObamaCare.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 4:42amWe were at War… Indians killed, raped, and tortured enemies… as they were Savages.
Your Liberal view of history is Insane: The History of the World is of Warrior Leaders (from the First Pharaoh to Now) and their Wars. Our Species is Predatorial… and the enemie kills you, if you do not kill them!
Grow Up!
Report Post »CarolinaSistah
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:02amNot all Black Americans are criminals Jezreel. All races and creeds have good and bad among them. Your entire post is full of ignorant stereotypical prejudice, right down to the back-hand compliment you offered to the Native Americans.
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:10pmCould you imagine: Navajo come to Americans and say: “We lived on this soil thousands years before you came here. Give us the land back. Our religion says that it is our promised land.”
Report Post »What will the Americans’ response be?
txannie
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 12:06amWe ALL came from somewhere else. Do we go back and ask/demand it be given back? You ask the question “what would your answer be”…so answer it. Think before you answer though. What happens if you are of mixed heritage? Do you go to both places of heritage? Pick one and go after it? Get real, what’s done is done. Do the best you can now and from this day forward. Quit looking backwards. Remember history, but learn the lessons and don’t repeat the bad stuff.
Report Post »The Giver
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 1:03amThe U.N. gave them the land. They did not take it ( Israelites) . The U.N. also gave land to the Palestinians which they refused. They made it what it is today.
Report Post »warhorse_03826
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 2:01ammany native legends tell of them taking the land from the “peaceful giants” that were here before them…and multiple 7-8 ft tall skeletons all with a double rows of teeth that were unearthed in the 1700-1800′s are proof of that.
scout n ambush
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 4:20amWarhorse have you read the red ochre war scrolls
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 4:49amRESPONSE: After Alexander the Great conquered a vast portion of the World, and lay dying… they asked, Whom to you give your Empire to?… and he replied: THE STRONGEST!
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 11:30amSome people have answers for everything because they never ask themselves of anything.
I have very few answers because I am overwhelmed by my own questions.
The imaginary scenario with Navajo was just my question extrapolating the Israelis-Arabs situation.
Report Post »Please refrain (if you can) from calling me a Judophobe. I am a Jew.
watersRpeople
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:03pmIt’s the darnedest thing coming out of your cave to discover that yourself is indeed “Alive”, and then feeling guilt over any sins of the past one may have done while you were asleep in that cave.
Report Post »No Grass
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:41pm@Waters…
Have you read Plato’s Republic, Allegory of the Cave?
I believe it is chapter seven, about a dozen pages long.
Andrew Wilkow did a segment on it a couple of years ago.
It does explain a lot of human understanding. The fear of the unknown. The system of dependency. etc.
I recommend it for everyone to read and ponder.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:55pmThat’s good of Beck to do that. I wonder if when people repeat The Lord’s Prayer over and over again in they really truly think about the words they say; I say that because then someone surely will realize that if lowly little us can forgive other people their trespasses – then more than likely God will forgive us our trespasses.
Report Post »Searchingforthelight
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:47pmI don‘t think this article is suppose to be about voting or casino’s. It’s about miracles.
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:41pmThe native americans are the US government’s original dependent class – since 1860s
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:06pmSoy,
My people, the Cherokee, were wealthy, well-educated and had a modern, thriving economy and peaceful, representaive form of government until Andrew “Trail of Tears” Jackson stole our land a killed 1/3 of us so his wealthly donors could steal our lands.
It’s been hard to come back from that.
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:21pmi know 3monkeys. In my opinion, the treatment of the native americans was just as bad as the whole slavery debacle. The feds FORCED the N.A. into dependency and have not loosened their grip ever since. It will take a huge reformation in the NA community to break free from it.
How can they get their independence back? Would like to hear your thoughts
Report Post »AnAmericanToo
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:37pmHow very sad for you that you don’t know your American history. Perhaps Glenn can do some much needed presentations on American history.
1) Did you know that Indigenous Peoples fought for the American Revolution at the request of Gen. George Washington?
Report Post »2) Did you know that the US TREATIES with tribes were based upon a quid prop quo agreement — ie the US government would take lands from the TRUE owners of the lands and in exchange the US government pledged to honor the boundaries as well as continue to compensate for the taking of lands that have benefited the US government? ie US gov. took the food and jobs of Native Peoples and isolated them on reservations in return the US GOV agreed to treaty terms…not a hand out.
3) The American public would do well to look at Native American tribal SOVEREIGNTY to comprehend what America has given away of their sovereignty.
4) Even when Indigenous Peoples did not have ‘US citizenship” they have fought in every US war.
5) When Native Americans did not have the right to vote ….they still fought in US wars.
6) Native American men helped in WWII as encrypted speakers — Navajo Code Talkers, Commanche, and others (Their codes were NEVER broken by the enemies)
3monkeysmomma
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:43pmMy family had not lived on the reservation for at least three generations. My grandfather never had much, but my father built a business that employed 67 people before the recession and got to see two of his daughters graduate from college.
He believes in people making their own way in the world.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 3:06pmAmen to that comment, Soybomb315_II.
Report Post »kathystone
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:40pmInstead of critisizing, why not help? Donate food, blankets, prehaps clothes.
Report Post »hades3
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:37pmFor those who believe that government is the ultimate answer for any and all situations, read the hsitory of government promises to Native Americans. The only thing government is able too do well, is strip people of their diginity and independence. We hear those on the left speak of the “diginity” of
Report Post »Native Americans, when their actions are repeating the very history that has kept Native Americans
under the thumb of Washington DC for more than two centuries. Government operates under the
umbrella of good intentions.. Results do not matter, except it gives that same government an excuse to start another program to fix the very problems it created. Unfortunately those of use who live in the present, are the next Native American “problem” that needs fixing.
LeadNotFollow
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:23pm…
Report Post »All this poverty and still, the Native-American people will vote for Democrats.
The very people who keep them in poverty.
3monkeysmomma
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:01pmActually that is starting to change. My father (who is Cherokee) was a Democrat his entire life but Obama changed that.
One thing I can tell you as a person of N.A. ancestry is that unlike many other minorities, NA people serve in the military in greater percentages, tend to be pro-life, own guns and LOVE this country.
Report Post »ICanComment
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:30pm@3monkeysmomma
Observing the humility and kindness in your posts humbles me and gives me hope. It is an honor to be part of this American Nation with you and people like you. I sincerely hope that more of us can learn to get along and set aside any differences we might have, be it race, religion, or anything else. The sooner we all humble ourselves, the sooner there will be healing from the wrongs of the past. God bless you.
Report Post »AnAmericanToo
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:49pmThis is so funny! I know of other Indigenous Peoples who voted for Obama and within a year of his being in office they were speaking ill of him.
One really can’t blame Native Peoples for voting “Democrat” You see, if you know your history about the Bureau of Indian Affairs when it existed in the 1930s the head of the Bureau brought in a Marxist from Mexico to help develop Indian Education programs. There were Indigenous leaders and organizations who BEGGED Congress to fire the head of the Indian Affairs Office but they did not prevail.
Report Post »bman546
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:17pmPut a seatbelt on that kid!
Report Post »Pepper_NC
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:11pmCharity starts at home! I do believe that the churches in this country that send their youth to every other nation to help others, should stay at home and help with Americans. I wish there was someone who would challenge the Christian Churches to send their youth missionaries to help the American Indian or even the people in Appilacia.
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:47pmWhy do you think they don’t? Churches around here (New Jersey) do this frequently, they also visit inner-cities and sometimes go overseas, but the overseas trips are *very* expensive, and typically the volunteers need to raise thier own funds for the trips.
Where does your church send it’s volunteers?
Report Post »rickfromthecape
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:10pmChristian Fellowship Ministries is helping there. In fact my church here on Cape Cod ( kind of what Glenn was talking about when we were struggling). has kind of a special relationship with many of the Navaho. a large group of them are coming here for Thanksgiving again this year, and we are sending another outreach team to the Nation next spring.
Report Post »Sumrknght
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:10pmI know here in Nebraska the first Indian casinos were allowed merely as a ‘gateway drug’ type of thing. First one was a couple hours away from Omaha by bus (or you could drive up yourself, but the bus was free). Iowa saw what was going on and raced to allow casinos right across the river in Council Bluffs – first by ‘river boat gambling’ (the requirement that the boat had to go out on the river, was soon gotten rid of and the ‘boat’ became a permanent fixture) then allowing casinos. Now I’ve been a truck driver… been through Nevada and other places that this happens in – the next steps are gambling allowed even in your local laundromats… it’s already in your local mini-mart to a degree with the lottery tickets… It just spreads. What was once geared towards helping out the Indian tribes – is subverted and taken over again. We even have a casino to the north of us here in Western Nebraska – across the border in South Dakota. It’s degraded almost as fast as the Indian housing that is put on the reservation. I know they need help – but GOVERNMENT help is NOT what they need. Their world view is so different from the white man’s world (I’m not saying that is a BAD thing either – go read some Roger Welsch about it (Guy that did Postcards from Nebraska)) – I don’t know that our “brand” of helping them – is help at all.
Report Post »FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:21pmSo giving Indians the freedom to open Casinos is a bad thing? Hmmm you‘re right people shouldn’t be allowed to gamble. I mean what do people think that they live in the land of the free?
Report Post »Sumrknght
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:39pmIt IS the land of the free – but it was founded on Christian morals. In the 50‘s and 60’s the lotteries of today would have never gained traction because the majority of this country believed such wealth gained without work would be immoral. The drive to separate corporal punishment and prayer from schools gave our society such a wonderful outlook – by all means lets dive into the filth as fast as we can. (Oh… that’s right – we ARE – that’s why Obama was elected).
Report Post »Sumrknght
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:41pmThe land of the free doesn’t mean we get to do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. It was never intended for that, this is the United States of America – not the United States of Hedonism. This country was made great by observing and following God’s laws… I think we’d do well to see if we can return to that.
Report Post »G.E.R
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:10pm“Our situations have reversed. When we first came to this land, we were the ones struggling, we were the ones that were hungry, we were the ones that may not make it through the winter”
The arrogance of this man. They should have skinned him alive after saying that.
Report Post »AnAmericanToo
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 11:14pmHey! Give Glenn a break….he has raised THREE truck loads of food for the Navajo people. I am impressed because so often Indigenous People are simply ignored.
Name one other person who has media access who has stepped forward to do something positive for Indigenous Peoples.
Report Post »grayling646
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 11:38pmHey GER:
I read his statement three times. Exactly what is arrogant about it? What part of it isn’t true?
Report Post »Anhauser1
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:09pmI have recently become acquainted with some of the Eastern Cherokee band in North Carolina and was invited to a few Pow Wows. It was a truely inspirational and spiritual experience for me. And the way the Pow Wows honored our veterans was incredible. I am glad to see Glenn taking time to help the Navajo for there surely is a need to help them as well as other tribes. Unfortunately, not all of the Native Americans are benefiting from the casino action. Greed runs rampant in all races it seems.
Report Post »LBurgKSMann
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:07pmIt was nice seeing Glenn’s son participate. Our family leads family mission trips to Window Rock, in the Navajo Nation, and our young kids have been working alongside Navajo adults and kids for some time. No hand-outs — just working side-by-side to renovate houses, church buildings, playgrounds, etc. A very proud, and generous, people struck by severe poverty, bureaucracy/red tape, drugs/alcohol. They need prayers, shoes and in-person support (construction/Vacation Bible Schools/home weatherization). God bless.
Report Post »blazingaway
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:07pmI never feel sorry for any Indian Nation that is living in poverty. They do it to themselves our of their stupidity.
Report Post »There is no group of people with greater economic opportunity and tax benefits and those Nations that are prosperous allow their people to own their land and take title to it.
The indians that live in a socialist. communistic, marxist type state of mind, live in poverty.
AnAmericanToo
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 11:01pmYou are so deeply misinformed.
On the Navajo Nation the US government imposed uranium mining — tainted the waters and the land. Water wars from the state governments have dried up a lot of water on the lands.
Much ado about the “First Black President” but who can name who was the First Indigenous Vice President?
Report Post »FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:06pmI graduated from Wind River High School in 2003. It’s located on the largest reservation, Wind River Reservation, in America. Trust me when I say it’s the people, not Government interference or hand outs, that ruins the reservation. The reason white people advance so rapidly is because we’re willing to abandon our cultures and ideals for progress.
Report Post »AnAmericanToo
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 11:09pmOh, how very, very sad that that is what you took away from your experience.
If you are talking about abandoning one’s culture — the US government has been attempting to destroy Indigenous culture for hundreds of years and before that those who came to the New World. They broke up families, destroyed languages, destroyed tribal government (the current Navajo Nation government structure was written by the Bureau of Indian Affairs).
In contrast, if one were apply your views to the American culture then one would have expect that Americans would no longer speak English and be forced to abandoned the US Constitution and replace it with a form of government imposed by an outside entity (say for exampled the United Nations).
Sad your educational opportunity at Wind River High School did not provide a more respectful view of others and their culture.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 9:03pmOne common denominator in ALL SOCIAL DESTRUCTION:::::::::::: central planning, unsustainable federal programs…..broken government promises….PERIOD !!!!!!
Report Post »No Grass
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 8:50pmThe Navajo Nation is study in dichotomy:
…at the same time…
sad and proud
rich and poor
plentiful and barren
traditional and modern
etc.
They need a lot of prayer and support (not necessarily hand-out help).
Report Post »bpodlesnik
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 8:47pmThat was very touching. Nice to see Glenn and his son help working as well.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 8:47pmThere shouldn’t be any distress unless of course the government is somehow involved here and I do believe it is. I went through this part of the country on a motorcycle ride and I was appalled at the way these people are still living in the most prosperous nation on earth. I’m sorry to report, but the land itself is not sacred, if you need to move the do so to improve your lives. If the government has put up some kind of dysfunctional system that keeps these people in place so they can merely be A PEOPLE then we’ve got a serious problem.
Report Post »AnAmericanToo
Posted on August 22, 2012 at 12:15amI respect your view that the land is not sacred in your world view, however, others view their lands much differently. Indeed, look at the view about those who believe modern day Israel is the Biblical restoration of LAND to the Jews. That is about lands being sacred. Many Americans love the land and could not move to another country merely to become financially enriched.
How sad that you only saw the economic poverty but failed to see the richness of the culture and family unity and so much more. How sad that you didn’t see the first Navajo owned motel on the Navajo Nation. The owner created jobs and added to the economy of the community. How sad that you did not stop to speak with any of the wonderful Navajo veterans nor take the time to talk to any of the Navajo Code Talkers.
Interesting that you mention riding through the Navajo Nation and that people should move off their home lands for financial gains. Mr. Beck’s TV program has an advertiser who asks people to buy food boxes for the poor who live in Israel — should they leave Israel for any place other than their homeland? In fact, impoverished peopled are mobile and heading to the USA from Central America and Mexico and are illegally entering the USA. These are impoverished people on the move.
The BIA did move Natives off their lands in the 1950s — the government sent them to Los Angles, Denver, and San Francisco. Destroyed families and cultures…
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