Hardrock distrusts McCain due to land dispute record
Posted on October 30, 2008
By Wendy Kenin; Special to the (Navajo) Times
Senator John McCain represents an Indian fighter just like Colonel Kit Carson,” says Bahe Katenay, Diné, resident of the Hopi Partition Land.
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Black Mesa Project Controversy Rises
Posted on October 25, 2008
A Waning Administration’s Actions May Contribute to a Tribal Mining Dispute.
By Carol Berry, Today correspondent; Indian Country Today, Oct 25, 2008
BLACK MESA, Ariz. – A push to approve a Peabody Western Coal Co. project in northern Arizona may be dividing the Hopi Tribal Council and fueling an attempted ouster of the tribal chairman. Read more
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Edison to Shut Down Polluting Coal Plant
Posted on December 30, 2005
By Miguel Bustillo Times Staff Writer 12.30.05
A massive coal-fired power plant that has provided Southern California
Edison with 7% of its electricity — but emits vast quantities of air pollution
that have clouded views of the Grand Canyon — will close at year’s end to comply
with a court ordered deadline, the utility confirmed Thursday.
The Mohave Generating Station near Laughlin, Nev., was required to upgrade
its pollution controls or close by Jan. 1 under a consent decree won in 1999
by environmental groups. The groups had alleged the plant repeatedly violated
the Clean Air Act. Read more
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Big Mountain, where the profession is hope
Posted on August 12, 2003
Big Mountain, where the profession is hope
In the days of little rain, Leonard and John Benally talk of struggle, hunger and justice on Big Mountain; By Brenda Norrell, Special to the Navajo Times
BIG MOUNTAIN, Ariz. – Leonard Benally says it is time for the people of Big Mountain to stop suffering alone and join oppressed Indigenous
peoples around the world in the struggle for freedom, democracy and justice. Read more
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Here’s a short history of the Annual Food & Supply Run by ClanDyken
Posted on October 22, 2002
In 1989 Veterans for Peace had just gotten back from a caravan to Mexico to bring succor to the oppressed people there fighting for their rights as indigenous people. They discovered the oppression of indigenous people is still going on right here in the land of the free. The Dine (Navajo) people of Big Mountain have been resisting a law passed in 1974 mandating their removal from their ancestral home lands. Read more
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Uranium Milling and the Church Rock Disaster
Posted on October 22, 2001
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/KillingOurOwn/KOO9.html
Church Rock, New Mexico, would seem an improbable spot for a nuclear disaster. A dusty cluster of industrial machinery set in the arid mesas of the great Southwest, its most distinguishing feature might be considered a large pond of murky liquid, unusual in such dry terrain. Church Rock also hosts a series of underground uranium mine shafts, a mill, and a scattered community of Navajo families who survive by herding cattle, goats, and sheep. Read more
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Differences Between Traditional Hopi & Hopi Tribal Council
Posted on October 21, 2001
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Leonard Peltier In Support Of The Dine’ of Big Mountain
Posted on October 18, 2001
Greetings Friends and Supporters,
I am writing to reiterate my full support of the Dine’ of Big Mountain and their continued resistance against relocation. The final eviction day, February 1st, came and went without any major confrontations or skirmishes. I think this strategy is very intentional in that the government knows a long, drawn-out and painful war against a people does not draw as much attention and is much more difficult to fight than a dramatic and sudden attack. I am sure they are waiting for people’s attention to lessen before they move in and begin moving people one by one, when few are watching.
Over the years the resisters have had to struggle just to survive, and the very fact that they have survived and continue their resistance is testimony to their amazing strength and belief in the Creator. The constant fear, harassment, and dangerous conditions under which they have been forced to
live have not surmounted their knowledge and skills as gardeners and sheepherders and caretakers of the land. At the same time, I know how the resisters must feel. The relocation bill was passed only a short time before I was arrested, and I know it has been a very long and difficult time for all of us. And like me, I know that the resisters are likely growing tired, but like me, they do not have the capability of giving up because they know they are in the right. When I think of the elders there and all that they have
been through, the pride I feel for our people swells. I am very proud of them. It is such an important time for the families to come together in unity and bring a final end to this attempt.I want to personally ask all of you on the outside to maintain and continue to build awareness around the Big Mountain situation. And, I ask you to support the people in whatever way they request. Relocation really is genocide and if the people of Big Mountain are lost, we all will lose another
very special and sacred source of traditional knowledge and a way of life we
can all learn from.In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Leornard Peltier
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