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The caravan is full. Please consider coming out this winter or spring or for next year’s caravan. Thank you for your support!

  • A caravan of work crews is once again converging from across the country in support of residents of the Big Mountain regions of Black Mesa. On behalf of their peoples, their sacred ancestral lands and future generations, these communities continue to carry out a staunch resistance to the efforts of the US Government, which is acting in the interests of the Peabody Coal Company, to devastate whole communities and ecosystems and greatly de-stabilize our planet’s climate for the profit of an elite few. By assisting with direct, on-land projects you are helping families stay on their ancestral homelands in resistance to an illegal occupation. These courageous communities serve as the very blockade to coal mining!
    • Host or attend regional organizational meetings in your area: We strongly urge caravan participants to attend or organize regional meetings. More…
    • Raise Awareness about Black Mesa and the caravan. You can obtain literature from BMIS.
    • Organize fundraisers: At the weeks prior to every caravan, grassroots supporters from all over throw benefits to raise the much-needed funds for such things as supplies, wood, and direct, and on-land people-support. Please contact BMIS for guidelines prior to any fund-raising in the name of Big Mountain and Black Mesa.
    • Collect supplies: Chainsaws, axes, mauls, axe handles, tools of all kinds, organic food, warm blankets, and especially trucks –either to donate to families or to use for the week of the caravan–are greatly needed on the land to make this caravan effectively work! Check out our Needs List.
    • Donate. We are not receiving nor relying on any institutional funding for these support efforts, but are instead counting on each person’s ingenuity, creativity, and hard work to make it all come together. We are hoping to raise enough money through our community connections for gas, specifically for collecting wood and food for host families, and for work projects. Please write checks out to Black Mesa Indigenous Support and mail them to Black Mesa Indigenous Support
      P.O. Box 23501, Flagstaff, Arizona 86002. Thank you!

    • Stay with a family on Black Mesa. Continued residency by families throughout the Big Mountain of region has a significant role in the intervention of Peabody Coal Company’s plans to desecrate Black Mesa & add to climate chaos. You can visit for several weeks to months or organize a work crew for about a week. Guests are expected to be adequately prepared prior to staying with families on Black Mesa, which is high desert and very remote. Since it is crucial to have good help out there, and not create more work for the families, all supporters are required to read and sign the Cultural Sensitivity Preparedness Guide.

    Direct, on-land support is an important opportunity for people of all backgrounds to work with the families of Black Mesa & to come together to strengthen our solidarity and find ways to work together to protect Black Mesa & our Mother Earth for all life.   Contact BMIS in advance so that we can make arrangements for your stay, answer any questions, and help put you in touch with a family.

    Urge the appropriate elected and appointed public officials:

    • View the profiles, email addresses, phone numbers & addresses of appropriate public officials to repeal PL-93-531.
    • That you are outraged that U.S. government officials were present and complicit to such a disgraceful act of aggression against the religious, civil and human rights of the Dine’ people.
    • That forced eviction of Dine’ families on HPL will be a crime against humanity that you do not want them to be complicit to.
    • To cease all efforts to evict the Dine’ non-Acommodation Agreement signing familes of the HPL.
    • That the Accomodation Agreement is not a just resolution as it denies signers of the agreement their civil, human, and religious rights.
    • That a resolution already exists: respecting the Dine’ people’s traditional right to peacefully occupy their traditional homelands. Educate yourself about issues dealing with Black Mesa.
    • Learn about and support the grassroots people at Black Mesa.
    • Contact the Hopi Tribal Council and urge them to respect religious practice and freedom, as they would want their ways respected.
    • Urge them to act responsibly and humanely as the whole world is watching, and we will not tolerate human rights abuses.
    • Urge them to heal the wounds that their assault on ceremonial grounds has opened.
    • Tell them to cease all efforts to evict the Dine’ non-Acommodation Agreement signing familes of the HPL.
    • Write letters to the editors of your local newspapers on the various issues of Black Mesa.
    • Organize prayer vigils in support of the traditional Dine’ and Hopi People.
    • Act as a Human Rights Observer; stay with a family.
    • Support the need for a truly sustainable economy.
    • Improve your everyday lifestyle choices. Lessen your water and electricity usage, how much gas you use, what you consume. You play a part in this. We are all from the Earth.
    • Each spring long time support group Clan Dyken organizes a caravan to plant gardens on Black Mesa: www.clandyken.com for some stories. There is a lot to do….” Mark Dyken
    “It’s time to start thinking about a planting trip to the Big Mountain, Black Mesa, Sand Springs areas of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. If you don’t know about our work on the rez check the Beauty Way page of the web site

    WHEN IS IT ENOUGH? EVERY DAY THAT WE WAIT TO ACT, THE PROBLEM GETS HARDER TO SOLVE.