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Black Mesa Indigenous Support P.O. Box 23501, Flagstaff, Arizona 86002  Message Voice Mail: 928.773.8086 Email: blackmesais@riseup.net

Statement from a Dineh man from The Mountain 07/22/05

To the supporters around the world:

The relocation of the Dineh Nation (Navajo) of Big Mountain, Black Mesa is
still happening to this day. Sen. John McCain has introduced a bill (S.1003) that is
to complete the forced removal of the Dineh of the Hopi Partitioned Land (HPL). The
HPL was given to the Hopi Nation under the Relocation Act of 1974. In that act
there is no fairness or equality, and what the Navajo Nation has been given is
broken promises instead of new schools, hospitals and other public services. It
is just like the past of broken treaties. The people who have relocated gave up
their beautiful way of life, that beautiful land, in exchange for these broken
promises.

The Relocation Act of 1974 should be revisited, repealed, and abolished, not
ammended into future laws that oppress us. The only solution is to give back the
land base to the indigenous. So in that way they can be in harmony and balance
with the earth. Imminent relocation means forced relocation. We do not want to move! We want
to continue our way of life, we want to keep our livestock. Our livestock has been confiscated and we are
told we are "overgrazing", but it is just a cover for harrassment and intimidation. We
have been denied our human rights and environmental justice. We have been denied our
place of worship and our beliefs. We know the U.S. gov't is all about corporate control and corruption. That is
how the mining of Black Mesa, and the relocation laws have come about. Right now we
have a concern. A concern to all the people of the world that we are killing our
mother, the earth on a global scale. We have alot of power plants in the
four-corners area and they need to be shut down. Maybe it is too late but the
young generations need us to resist.

Wake up America! Wake up to the desecration of the sacred and the genocide that
the United States is founded on. This relocation equals genocide here.
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(a Dineh man from The Mountain)