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Restoring Love: Mercury Food Donations Reach In-Need Navajo Nation

Those who took part in Restoring Love, or who followed the event, are likely familiar with the “day of service” in which Good Samaritans from around the country — some 30,000 of them — volunteered to help people in need. They cleaned, repaired and refurbished houses, parks and churches as well as donated enough food to fill 14 tractor trailers — some of which were sent out to their intended destinations just yesterday (July 31).

One of those stops was at the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, a severely depressed area which, according to Mercury One’s Terra Perez, houses some of the country’s strongest, proudest people.

Perez joined Glenn Beck and the rest of the crew Wednesday morning to share her experience at the Nation, where 500 individuals waited patiently to receive food. To illustrate the gravitas of the occasion, the local media, which allegedly only makes the trek out to Navajo land to cover shootings or deaths, was even in attendance.

The reservation’s elected president addressed the Nation in their native tongue, expressing his appreciation for the meals that would provide his people sustenance for roughly one week. While it isn’t a tremendous amount of time, he said that there are some on the reservation who would not have even had food to eat that very night if it were not for the meals provided by Mercury One (Glenn Beck’s charitable organization). Of course, those donations were made possible by the countless, generous people who read and watch GBTV and TheBlaze.

Beck said that he would not only like to visit the Navajo Nation, but also “link arms” and do more across the nation’s other Indian reservations.

Thus far, each tractor-trailer of food being provided by Mercury One will contain approximately 40,000 pounds of food each.

Past and upcoming drop off locations include:

  • Dallas
  • NYC
  • New Orleans
  • Navajo Reservation, New Mexico
  • Las Vegas
  • Orlando
  • Atlanta
  • Philadelphia
  • Detroit
  • Houston
  • Wilmington
  • San Joaquin Valley
Please be sure to visit the Mercury One site and TheBlaze for updates on these extraordinary food deliveries.

Comments (44)

  • revitup
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 4:29pm

    Glen needs to look into James Simermeyer NYC atty,Sequoyah Simermeyer-Obama admin Dept Of Interior atty ,Ed Simermeyer and the Keepseagle lawsuit (already settled by Obama DOJ) then email me in NC to show you the New Acorn. rev.it.up1@hotmail

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  • cranberry
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 4:04pm

    Don’t begrudge Glenn because he wants to do something for another human being. He doesn’t even want thanks. He wants us to all help each other. Period.

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  • Arshloch
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 3:34pm

    Anyone born in the U.S. is a native American. The indians came as imigrants like everyone else. The difference is that indians spent thousands of years starving in winter and hitting each other over the heads the rest of the time. Unlike all of the later imigrants, it never occured to them that a little work would improve their status. When the later imigrants worked, earned and prospered the indians, still
    not interested in work, found that demanding a designation as a ‘native american’ would insure that they could also demand and, because of the bleeding heart liberals, receive perks that others had to work for. ERGO !

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    • teachingazteca
      Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:57am

      Dine are like other races in that they have those who do things they shouldnt. Dine are a proud and honorable people and do not strive to publicly shame those that have chosen a wrong path, thus they seem weak to outsiders. Thus the myth that they havea “gene” or predisposition to alcholism. The truth is the US government made drinking illegal and natives started binge drinking to avoid prosecution. It continues today because of the this ttradition, as it is illegal to have alcohol on the Rez so drinking is done quickly when its done. Not only that, but people do not want to publicly shame others as that is not traditional. However, being a belagana and not doing research means you may not have this knowledge or experience. I suggest you get it before posting again.

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  • tomizzle2
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:04pm

    What a wonderful thing that Glenn Beck has done. Hopefully this will inspire more aid to these truly
    downtrodden people. These people have been competely forgotten with all of the crap that the other so-called minority groups have demanded. It’s long overdue that the native americans get at least
    some of the much owed riches that the government has been so willingly to dispense with.

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    • revitup
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 4:37pm

      Some aren’t forgotten,they have bought a tribe and are continuing to rape us real Indians.Google James Simermeyer,Sequoyah Simermeyer and Enoch Emanuel/George Edwin Butler .James claims to be Coharie Indian?My Grandfather was Enoch Emanuel 1st Croatan Chief,he and Grandpa Jonah owned thousands of acres in Sampson County (1925) and taught a subscription school here for Indians,he was robbed by NC and now Simeremyer is in possession of our genealogies and written histories,these include the Judeo /Christian founding of the churches here.Simermeyer’s wife victoria is from Bolivia South America,she claims to be Navajo. Randy rev.it.up1@hotmail.com

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  • OniKaze
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:02pm

    GLEN…. I bet if you schedule a location for donations in Indianapolis, I bet you would get a great deal of donations to take to the people…

    If you get a hold of the Eitlegorge (I have mis-spelled that…) Museum which is an Indian and Western Art Museum, I bet they would be happy to let you set up the location there..

    Whether you like Mr. Beck’s political ideas or not, you ALL have to admire his desire to be a good person to others…

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  • Libertyluvnmomma
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:18pm

    The suicide among teens and young adults at these concentration camps is alarming.
    YES PEOPLE-WE HAVE PUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
    we continue to do so until a significant portion of Americans stand up and say “we must right this situation”
    This is racism and tyranny and like the African tribes who sold their own the Indian bureaucracy is corrupt as well.
    Free the slaves
    Free the slaves

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    • watersRpeople
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:50pm

      John Denver has a good video on YouTube about what his take on the Spirit of the Native American is. The Sky/ space is the Father, and the earth is the mother…etc.

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    • watersRpeople
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:53pm

      It’s kind of interesting that Elizabeth Warren claims heritage with the Native Americans…”Elizabeth?” Yet I don’t think so.

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    • watersRpeople
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:55pm

      It’s an important thing to support them – after-all, many of you were Native Americans once or twice.

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  • nosharia
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:24am

    Lets just make sure it is a “hand up” and not a handout. All people need to be able to keep some vestige of pride.

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  • Magyar
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 7:41am

    Give them food and they will stand in a line to receive forever. Another example of government dependance…

    A once proud people have been prescribed the entitlement pill…..and sadly continue to refill the prescription.

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  • nonya
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 7:23am

    I lived on the rez for a number of years and taught Navjo government and history in the little town of Kayenta, at the base of Monument Valley. Very interesting that Glenn Beck would go out there and support a communist/socialist system where everyone shares everything. The Navajo government sets quotas on the amount livestock one can own, no one actually owns property (it is all owned by the Navajo Government), and tribal government corruption is rampant. Because they have no industry, no natural resources to draw from (except for a Uranium mine or two), a corrupt government system, and a lack of infrastructure means these people are trapped. They show what a society could be if you do not adequately support new ideas and technologies. They could be the richest people on earth, if they allowed some company to construct wind turbines on remote parts of the rez (since I believe it is the windiest place on earth) and allow them to sell power back to the grid. It is a wasted opportunity for them and for us.

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    • Magyar
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 8:01am

      AND…that IS exactly how the government wants to keep them—QUIET and DEPENDENT!

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    • listeninginVT
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:30am

      I’m giving my opinion, it is not my business about how the Navajo choose to live. On your comment about wind turbines. Do you actually know what THAT specific ‘green energy’ sounds like, how Large? how deadly it is to birds and bats, concusive air pressure, and that if you live w/in a mile or so it effects your health, i.e. you loose sleep, your body is under going major stress from the ‘light’ effects and the air pressure effects of the turbines. And after that major negative, once the companies are in, they force more and more turbines to go up, then you have worthless land that no one can live on, where do you go then? And for facts, the actual amount of energy wind turbines produce is very small once you factor in all the oil and gas used by the ‘engine’ that makes the energy. The technology used now is a total scam of a joke, it harms nature and humans alike and it doesn’t produce. These facts are well hidden by ‘can’t talk about it’ contracts that all must sign before getting into wind, so once you know what is going on, you can’t tell anyone or you will lose everything being taken to court by the turbine companies. Wind energy MAY one day be viable and safe, right now it simply isn’t, no matter how much those in charge say ‘it’s the best option’. I say, put it in your backyard and you have to live there the rest of your miserable life, and it will be miserable. Look at places that have W turbines, before and after, talk to those who live there, it is N

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  • ComingUnglued
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 6:25am

    I was in Utah and Arizona last year on vacation. I saw the most beautiful pottery I have every seen. I wanted to purchase them but I could not transport home.

    I asked of they had a website, they don’t.

    I asked if they could ship items, they can but it was sooo expensive.

    Maybe someone can teach them how to set one up. The pottery was truly beautifu, I would be honored to have a piece in my home.

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  • shekinah11
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 5:34am

    I lived on that reservation a couple of years ago…I know what it is like to live there…It also was just a couple of months ago that the Navajo Chairman signed a pledge that the Navajo people would stand with Israel and they are in the process of the Leaders actually visiting Israel in the next couple of days…It is just as God said about Israel…”I’ll bless those who bless you…” Is still true today…

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  • lionslayer44
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:51am

    while its sad that people in America should be starving people need to take a closer look. there are approximately 80 different sections of the nation that receive monies to spend on projects (building homes etc.). more than 70 of those are being investigated for stealing from their own people. look up the history between the Hopi‘s and the navajo’s you will find how the navajo‘s have been stealing land from the Hopi’s and other neighboring tribes for years. i have employed over 100 navajo’s and was a partner in a business with a navajo. my business partner stole all our equipment and took it to the reservation i cant get it. he ruined my life my credit i lost my house three trucks and he stole over 100k worth of equipment. not one navajo employee stood up and said anything. i have been friends (close) with Apache’s, Creeks, Cherokee’s, Paiute’s, Pima’s and other native Americans never have i met a people more resentful of their fellow man. i guess thats why the Hopi’s call them the “Dirty Ones” BE PREPARED COLLECT FOOD WATER (FILTERS), AMMO!!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!

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    • MeteoricLimbo
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 3:24am

      I myself am very familiar with the Navajo Nation having grown up there. There sure is a lot of confusion about its people. Its very sad to read some of the comments posted. Ignorance is bliss

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    • Atlantis737
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 3:39am

      I visited the Hopi mesas many years back and met a few of their people and they are some of the most humble and spiritual people I have ever met. So much poverty but they had so much dignity too and were so concentrated on our comfort even though they had little themselves.

      Most of their income comes from their arts and crafts including their Kachina doll sales. The Navajo sell many Kachina dolls even though they don‘t have them in their culture like the Hopi’s do which has been a great contention between the two tribes. Their is a lot of counterfeiting too with the dolls which costs the Hopis much in sales.

      Conservative Barry Goldwater was a great friend to the Native tribes and did a lot to help them. He was an honorary member of the Hopi tribe, they had a lot of respect for him. I believe he ended up siding with them if I remember correctly.

      It would be nice if Glenn renewed Goldwater’s relationship with the Hopi and did something say with 1791 and helping them to sell their Kachina dolls and crafts, not dependence as in the liberal way but a way to help them help themselves out of poverty and it would also help to often a harsh history between the Hopi and America.

      Both the Democrats and Republicans have ignored them for the most part and to do something like this is along with what Glenn has been doing and would be a great way to heal America and show what we can do together.

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    • MeteoricLimbo
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 3:53am

      @Atlantis737
      You might want to look up Peter MacDonald who served as tribal chairman

      In 1989, MacDonald was removed from office by the Navajo Tribal Council, pending the results of federal criminal investigations headed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. MacDonald was sent to federal prison in 1990 for violations of US law and subsequently convicted of more U.S. federal crimes, including fraud, extortion, riot, bribery, and corruption.

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  • Mahtoska
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:15am

    The United States government has systematically created a culture of dependence on Indian reservations around the country. Our government has called them Domestic Dependent Nations. We made treaties and broke them. We stole their land and the money we promised them in exchange for the lands we “purchased” then we stole the money back through misappropriation, malfeasance, embezzlement, and out right theft. We have denied them their sovereign status and confined them to “reservations” where we told them that they could not engage in any enterprise that did not meet government approval. We took agricultural people and moved them onto parched desert lands, took hunting people and tried to turn them into farmers and cattlemen, took fishing people and tried to turn them into lumberjacks. We sterilized their women, forced them to learn English, cut their hair, took away their traditional lifeways and cultures and fed them flour, butter, and fat and gave them diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. We relegated them to the dustbin of history and denied them citizenship until 1924 even though every single Native American was born in the land we know as the United States. Now, people say, “well, don’t give them anything”…let me ask you one thing; if we aren’t going to give them anything, what do they have left for us to take? The shame of this nation reflects in the eyes of our First Peoples. And we wonder why our Nation is falling apart…

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:33am

      @MAHTOSKA

      Is there no use in trying to help them?

      Is it too late?

      As an Italian, should I brood over the fall of Rome and the way my ancestors were treated by the invaders?

      By your logic, unless I am perfect, why try?

      I am not disputing your facts, only your conclusion. I would posit that the Nation fell apart when it was engaging in those activities; now it is coming together.

      My daughter has been on a mission trip to the Navajo Nation. She helped build houses. She was very touched by them and they were grateful for the hand.

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    • Mahtoska
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:13am

      BROTHER_ED: I‘m not saying that helping the Navajo or any of the First People’s is a bad thing, it is in fact, to be commended. What I am saying is this: Is it any wonder they need help? The government – not to be confused with the American citizenry – put them in the position in which they now find themselves. There can be no wonder they have rejected so much of the 21st century world. The ghosts of the past haunt their every steps, the memories of how they should live is in their DNA. I think what I’m most perturbed about is that we spend so much money on overseas projects but we have our own 3rd World right here in the United States and nobody seems to give a damn about it. I am happy that Mr. Beck sent trucks to the reservation and it is my fervent hope that he sends more to other reservations too. I would encourage anybody who has anything to offer free of politics or an agenda to volunteer. My master says “Whatever thou doest to these the least of thy brethren thou doest also to me”… words to live by.

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    • SCARY
      Posted on August 3, 2012 at 1:29am

      Absolutley.Thanks for some truth.

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  • thedirtmover
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:14am

    I was there. This was the most gratifying few days of my life. To witness this let alone take part
    is beyond words. We will join in the next one as well.
    Our job could not be done in four hours. Some of use spent two days on it. The local contractor that was with us, has finished the job. Hat’s off to Morris Power Construction.
    Thanks to that all that came.I met some great people there.

    BTW, I‘m the guy who couldn’t get his chainsaw on the plane. I was told next time just to call it a California banjo.

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  • ComingUnglued
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:42am

    Ok Glenn,

    I am with you on your next venture. I spoke to a bunch of people at Restoring Love in the 104 degree Texas heat. Our opinion was that the next tim you throw an event can you make in October. How about Columbus day weekend. The kids are off school, and if there not we take them out, people do it all the time. We need a respite from the heat.

    I would love to go to an Indian Reservation. How can we teach them how to fish? Plant food? Briing back their heritage, we were always interested as kids. The heat does take it out of you though.

    It was a great weekend in Dallas, what a way to celebrate my birthday. I have so many ideas to bring what I learned home. We were on bus 862 that went to a rehabilitation and nursing home in Hurst, Tx. The guys and gals were amazing.

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  • Paul
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:27am

    The More & More I Think About This…

    You Have To Do It Glenn…….

    Full Circle.

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  • GoodStuff
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:40pm

    The Navajo Nation needs jobs, not endless charity. They‘ve depended on the gov’t for decades and it’s gotten them nowhere. Now Beck is just perpetuating the dependence.

    Western countries have given Africa 100′s of billions of dollars over the last 50 years, and Africa today is more poor than 50 years ago. Giving is the problem! Stop creating dependence.

    TEACH A MAN TO FISH!!

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    • Paul
      Posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:49pm

      You just don’t get it do you ?

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    • MAX0O1
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:41am

      SO they should starve while they are helped to be independent? There is appsolutly
      no love or caring in people like you. Yet you project your own deficiencies onto
      people who do care.

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    • The-Real-Enrico
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:59am

      @GoodStuff You can’t teach a starved man to fish…

      One has to nurtured and well enough to be coherent to be able to to learn and be taught how to fish.

      Love and charity is only part one and one part. It is the first and most important part then rest follows.

      Charity is how you prove that you know how to fish so they will follow learn form your lead.

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    • thedirtmover
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:50am

      Fishing? They are out in the middle of the desert. Good luck with that.

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    • Rosey
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:37pm

      @Paul: You just don’t get it do you ?

      Have you ever been there Paul? I‘m not accusing I’m asking. I grew up there. @Goodstuff has it right. These people are not helpless. They are not crippled yet we continually treat them as inhumane by giving them EVERYTHING. I applaud Glenn for what he is doing, but it’s not going to help. It‘s the gov’t fault, not only the fed for allowing them to be a sovereign nation w/in the US but also the navajo nations fault for being corrupt and stealing everything from their own people to enrich themselves. It seems every couple yrs another scandal hits because the ppl at the top stole everything out of the coffers, but it never changes anything. It’s communism and until the people say enough and get rid of the nation running things, it will stay the same. Not to say that they need to give up their traditions, just participate in our form of gov’t and abandon the tribe running everything.

      Growing up I had a lot of Indian friends (some of my best friends) that over the yrs have killed themselves by alcohol, drugs, or suicide. It’s precisely due to having all the incentive taken away and put in a hopeless situation.

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    • Rosey
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:19pm

      @max001
      “SO they should starve while they are helped to be independent? There is appsolutly
      no love or caring in people like you. Yet you project your own deficiencies onto
      people who do care.”

      You are so right. People like @Goodstuff HATE because there is something missing in there lives…maybe daddy didn‘t hug them enough of affirm there qualities enough when they were young because they’re EVIL and it’s the only thing that makes them feel anything. It feels so good to OPPRESS and kick them while they’re down because the last 50 or 75 yrs of feeding, clothing, and completely sustaining these ppl was all done precisely because we have no LOVE or COMPASSION in our small little hearts because it’s worked SO WELL AT TEACHING THEM INDEPENDENCE these past 50-75 yrs…

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  • happygranny
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:33pm

    God bless Mr. Beck for all that he does. It is easy to talk about what is wrong with our nation but this is really what it is about, people helping people. We don’t need the government to tell us who to give to and how much, let the churches and charities take over the job. I have been donating toward the food drive and I am so pleased that it made a difference.

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:31pm

    God built this business, right Mercury One. Thank you so much for all your love for God and country Beck and all who stand with you. I for one pray everyday for your good heart and love within it. God bless America!

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  • Paul
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:00pm

    Would be ironic to get them on our side…

    Would love to see it happen….

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  • poorrich
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 10:37pm

    The feds might help the Navajo Nation if the Navajo were illegal aliens. We can do better.

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  • voodoolife
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 10:35pm

    Awesome! Yes Glenn, you should do an event in Navajo Nation.

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  • MrButcher
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 10:19pm

    Go to the Navajo Nation, Mr. Beck.

    Go there in October.

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  • scout n ambush
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 10:11pm

    How did this happen with no gov’t assistance =)

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