{"id":1982245,"date":"2023-07-25T14:03:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T18:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leader-of-the-navajo-nation-tells-aoc-something-she-doesnt-want-to-hear\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T14:06:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T18:06:39","slug":"leader-of-the-navajo-nation-tells-aoc-something-she-doesnt-want-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leader-of-the-navajo-nation-tells-aoc-something-she-doesnt-want-to-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"Navajo Nation leader delivers unwelcome message to AOC."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleader-of-the-navajo-nation-tells-aoc-something-she-doesnt-want-to-hear%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1982245&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>In the 1830s, \u200bDemocrats \u2063spearheaded Indian Removal, one \u200dof the most\u200d shameful episodes in \u2064U.S. history. Nearly two centuries later, it \u200cappears that clueless party members cannot stop trampling the rights of\u200b Indigenous Americans.<\/h2>\n<p>On\u200c July 13, Dr. Buu V. Nygren, President of the Navajo Nation, <a href=\"https:\/\/naturalresources.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/testimony_nygren.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testified<\/a> to Congress regarding the Biden\u2063 administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-on-historic-gas-prices-i-cant-do-much-right-now-russias-responsible\/\" title=\"Biden On Historic Gas Prices: \u2018I Can\u2019t Do Much Right Now. Russia\u2019s Responsible.\u2019\">destructive energy policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In response to\u200d Nygren\u2019s testimony, Democratic \u2062Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New \u200cYork exhibited the astonishing hubris of an\u2063 elitist who worships at the altar of climate \u2063change.<\/p>\n<p>Nygren\u200d appeared before the House Natural Resources\u2063 Subcommittee \u2063on Energy and Mineral Resources to protest an imperious edict.<\/p>\n<p>On June 2, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland imposed \u200ba 20-year ban on oil, gas and mineral leasing in part of New Mexico. The ban, issued under Public Lands Order 7923, established a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-interior-department-cuts-off-navajo-nation-from-oil-and-gas-development\/\" title=\"Biden's Interior Dept. stops Navajo Nation's oil and gas development.\">10-mile buffer<\/a> around Chaco Culture National Historical Park.<\/p>\n<p>Members \u2062of the Navajo Nation have ancient cultural ties to the Chaco\u2064 region. They also hold valuable \u200bmineral rights in the \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-gives-go-ahead-for-evacuation-of-parts-of-ukraines-kherson-region\/\" title=\"Putin Gives Go-ahead for Evacuation of Parts of Ukraine\u2019s Kherson Region\">buffer area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/states\/center-square\/navajo-nation-leader-says-biden-aoc-energy-policies-cripple-tribes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just The\u2064 News<\/a>, the ban will cost \u200dNavajo mineral owners nearly $200 million in \u2064revenue over the next 20 \u2064years.<\/p>\n<p>Haaland issued the ban over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-admin-forced-cancel-oil-lease-ban-celebration-furious-navajo-citizens-strike-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strenuous Navajo protest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In \u200dhis testimony, \u200cNygren cited extreme \u2064Navajo poverty relative\u200c to the rest of the United States. \u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leader-of-the-navajo-nation-tells-aoc-something-she-doesnt-want-to-hear\/\" title=\"Navajo Nation leader delivers unwelcome message to AOC.\">10-mile withdrawal area \u200bincludes numerous allotments<\/a> and negatively affects the mineral interests of over 20,000 allottees,\u201d he\u2064 said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Eastern \u2063Navajo Agency, a \u2063Navajo reservation, \u201clies within a\u2062 portion of New Mexico that remains one\u2063 of the least economically developed places in the \u200dUnited States.\u201d The median income is less than $27,000.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, therefore, Public\u2063 Lands Order 7923 threatens to further impoverish the already struggling Navajo.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Haaland\u2019s ban tramples \u2062the tribal right of self-determination.<\/p>\n<p>Nygren testified that the ban \u201cdisregards and fails to honor the Navajo Nation\u2019s sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2062 added that \u201cthis is an issue of great significance because it elevates outside special interest groups\u2019 agendas \u200dover the sovereign interests of the \u2064Navajo Nation and the economic interests \u200bof our directly impacted allottees and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/when-it-comes-to-the-covid-19-vaccine-americans-must-remain-free-to-decide-for-themselves\/\" title=\"When It Comes To The COVID-19 Vaccine, Americans Must Remain Free To Decide For Themselves\">local community members<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One such \u201coutside special interest\u201d reared its ugly head when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/aoc-gets-lesson-constitution-mouthing-off-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> weighed in on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>According to Just The News, the New York congresswoman defended the ban despite its adverse economic \u200dimpact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe answer to that, in my view, is not to revert back to oil and gas \u2064mining,\u201d she said, \u201cbut to invest and reinvest\u2063 in these communities, particularly where there is harm \u2062being done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the ban already in place, however,\u2062 Nygren noted that it is \u2063a little\u2063 late to be discussing alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>The image of Ocasio-Cortez\u2064 sitting comfortably in Washington, D.C., and spewing nonsense about investing and \u200creinvesting in one \u200bof the nation\u2019s poorest\u2062 regions\u2013all\u200d while defending a policy that \u200cdeliberately impoverishes \u2064the Navajo people\u2013should make every true American populist\u2019s head explode.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-teamsters-president-says-asked-white-house-not-intervene-ups-workers-go-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poses<\/a> as a\u2064 friend of the poor. Her actions prove, however, that\u200d she \u2064will sacrifice actual poor people on the climate-change altar.<\/p>\n<p>Though their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-one-time-gift-biden-led-native-americans-vote-red-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voting patterns<\/a> suggest otherwise, American Indians have long suffered at the hands of rapacious Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>In their suffering, the Navajo people at least have exposed another tone-deaf, elitist hypocrite.<\/p>\n<h3>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/leader-navajo-nation-tells-aoc-something-doesnt-want-hear\/\">Leader\u2062 of the Navajo Nation Tells AOC Something She \u200dDoesn&#8217;t\u200b Want to Hear<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1830s, Democrats led the disgraceful Indian Removal, a dark chapter in U.S. history. Today, it seems oblivious party members continue to disregard the rights of Indigenous Americans. On July 13, Navajo Nation President Dr. Buu V. Nygren testified to Congress about the Biden administration&#8217;s harmful energy policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":1982246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}