Being respectful and responsible is a must, the families on the land will have to deal with the repercussions of your actions; bear that in mind.
Black Mesa is home to the Hopi and Dineh people where they utilize traditional skills passed down from generations to raise sheep, dye wool, weave, gather plants for healing and for food, cultivate corn and vegetables, and much more. They can survive off the land. They cannot survive without it. Humanity cannot survive without learning the important lessons they offer us.
Black Mesa has suffered human rights abuses and ecological devastation; the water supply on Black Mesa is shrinking; thousands of archeological sites have been destroyed; and, unbeknownst to most Americans, close to 14,000 Navajos, or Dineh, have been removed from their homes.
As sacred lands like Black Mesa and indigenous cultures everywhere are being sacrificed to profit corporate globalization and feed America's spiraling energy consumption it is our responsibility to act on these injustices. This deliberate program of organized genocide MUST STOP!!
"We must not let artificial concepts of reservation boundaries and the rhetoric of corporate and governmental terrorism sway from us our inherent stewardship of our Awidelin Tsitda, Mother Earth." ( from the Shiwi Messenger by Cal Seciwa, Zuni Tribal Member.)
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| Cheney Energy Task Force (including Peabody execs) -Time Magazine |
President George Bush &
Vice President Dick Cheney
Washington, D.C. 20500
Telephone: 202-456-1111
Fax: 202-456-2461
president@whitehouse.gov
The Bush Administration contends that an expansion of coal-generated power must be part of the "balanced" energy policy. (Peabody representatives and the coal industry is particularly well-represented in the Bush Administration.)
www.state.gov
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Gale Norton
U.S. Department of the Interior
Call Gale Norton's office, secretary of the Department of the Interior, who oversees the BIA and several other agencies with jurisdiction on Black Mesa. All across the nation billions of dollars in American Indian royalty funds remain unaccounted for and many tribes are accusing the Interior Department of mismanaging the funds. The Bush administration has actually intervened in a Navajo Nation lawsuit against Peabody that produced evidence that company engaged in backdoor deals with the Interior Department and diminished Navajo royalties since 1985. A U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the Interior Department violated its trust responsibility when it engaged in these deals. The Bush administration says a ruling ordering the government to make payments to the Navajo Nation to replace lost royalties would be too costly and could lead to similarly expensive rulings favoring other tribes that share royalties with other energy companies. Now Senate Bill 1003 would allow the Secretary of the Interior the power to unilaterally determine how to apportion revenue between the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribal Council and is opposed by both. Under this bill, the Office of Navjo-Hopi Indian Relocation is suppose to windup affairs and transfer any remaining functions to the Department of Interior.
Norton holds the key to a bin of rich resources, containing much of the world's untapped oil and gas and minerals from coal to iron ore. She controls access to thousands upon thousands of acres of grazing lands, military bases, Indian reservations, fisheries, and forests, not to mention abandoned military test zones. Through a maze of waterworks, Norton would have at her fingertips the lifeblood of the Western desert: water from the Colorado to the Snake to the Columbia. The Village Voice
Gale Norton, President-elect Bush's choice for interior secretary, has devoted her career to undermining the mission of the agency she has been nominated to lead. This report details Norton's record of extremism and anti-environmentalism, and supports NRDC's assertion that Norton's nomination is a direct challenge to even the most basic land and wildlife stewardship. We urge the U.S. Senate to reject Norton’s nomination.
- Gale Norton
Department of Interior
1849 C. Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20240
(202) 208-3100
gale_norton@ios.doi.gov
www.doi.gov/secretary/
- Department of the Interior for the US Bureau of Indian Affairs
1849 C Street NW Mail Stop 4140
Washington, DC 20240
tel: 202-208-7163 or 202-208-3100 fax: 202-208-6956 or 202-208-6334
Web Site – www.doi.govE-mail – Gale_Norton@ios.doi.gov
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Lodge
United States Attorneys Office
email: joseph.lodge@usdoj.gov
telephone: 928-556-0833 OR 928-556-3115
fax: 928-556-0759
123 N. San Francisco St.
Flagstaff, AZ. 86001
Leon Berger, former executive director of ONHIR who resigned in 1982, stated, "The forcible relocation of over 10,000 Navajo people is a tragedy of injustice that will be a blot on the conscience of this country for many generations."
In addition to the problems faced by all Dineh, the people in the New Lands or in other places do face additional burdens related to this devastatingly and abysmally managed process.
