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History of the Food and Supply Run
	Here's a short history of the Food and Supply Run: 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. This attempt at legalized genocide, this henious crime against a peacefully people, was cloaked in lies about a "range war" between the Hopi and Dine people. It is actually agiant land grab to benefit the energy corporations, specifically Peabody Coal (now owned wholly by Lehman Brothers Investment Group) in their drive to extract the high grade coal from the area at the least cost to themselves. VFP decided to put together another caravan to bring food and supplies to the Dine People on Big Mountain. Our friend and elder Coyote was on that caravan. Coyote brought back stories of poisoned wells and sheep, murdered activists, military style harassment by the BIA and their law enforcement forces, capped off wells, kidnapped sheep and horses, lies and coercion used to get elders who can't even speak English much less read it to sign papers giving away their rights. So we decided that we had to do something. Since then we have been working with the People of Black Mesa in their struggle to resist this genocide perpetrated in the name of "Peace". We have gone out to the "Altar" as the elders call it to help in planting corn fields and gardens, we have supported the annual Sundance at Anna Mae Camp and we have continued the Thanksgiving Caravan to bring food and supplies to the People holding on out there. It is our intention to continue this important work until justice for the traditional People of Black Mesa, both Hopi and Dine is achieved.This year maybe more than i nprevious years we need your help. Please look into your hearts and pocketbooks to see what you might do.
Black Mesa Indigenous Support (BMIS) works to support the sovereignty of indigenous people on Black Mesa facing forced relocation, environmental devastation, and cultural extinction at the hands of multi-national corporations, and United States and tribal governments. Feedback on BMIS Web