Dineh travel to San Francisco to support Freedom of Religion
On Tuesday, February 22, 2000, forty Dineh elders and representatives
gathered at the Ninth Circuit of Appeals in San Francisco, CA for an Oral
argument in the Manybeads v. US lawsuit for Freedom of Religion. The hearing
began at 10:00 AM and two Judges were present, the third participated by
speakerphone. The Dineh and numerous supporters filled one courtroom and an
overflow courtroom equipped with a television monitor. Read more
Forbidding the “G-Word”: Holocaust Denial as Judicial Doctrine in Canada
By Ward Churchill. http://www.othervoices.org/2.1/churchill/denial.html
Other Voices, v.2, n.1 (February 2000)
Copyright © 2000, Ward Churchill, all rights reserved
Where scholars deny genocide, [they] contribute to the deadly psychohistorical dynamic in which unopposed genocide begets new genocides.
—Roger W. Smith, Eric Markusen and Robert Jay Lifton, “Professional Ethics and Denial of the Armenian Genocide” (1995)
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Statement by Roberta Blackgoat to be submitted to the U.N.
FEBRUARY2000
RELIGION
This land is a sacred land. The Creator gave it to us to protect it with song and prayers Not only for the Dine People but for all the Universe. The Holy Peoplewere praying to the Creator in a sacred hogan and when the praying was done, the Creator blew the four poles that held the hogan together into mountains,creating a space for the Dine. These poles became four sacred mountains in four different cardinal points: Mount Blanca, Mountain Taylor, the San Francisco Peaks, and Mount Hesperus. It is said that when this new hogan was completed it was covered with dirt which the Creator manifested as a rainbow. The Dine People have the spiritual mission to protect this land in order to keep the whole universe in balance. Near the center of the sacred hogan, that is our homeland is Big Mountain which is considered our altar, where people from the world can come to be healed. The first Navajo words we were taught as children were prayers and that was made it possible for their success in protecting our land, and has allowed us to remain here. Even the Navajo Code Talkers in WorldWar II protected this land using the Navajo language, using our prayer. Read more
Is Forced Native American Relocation Imminent….???
This article appears in the Earth First Journal ( Jan / Feb 2000)
THIS VERSION HAS BEEN AMENDED SLIGHTLY TO INCLUDE MORE DETAILED INFORMATION
This is a NONVIOLENT effort! No weapons, alcohol, drugs, or aggression toward ANYONE!
The New Year began with the first major snowstorm of the season. No precipitation had fallen for over 100 days, and everyone welcomed the moisture that the snow brought, crucial to the health and vitality of the People’s flocks of sheep and goats, particularly during the winter and spring lambing season. The roads were nonetheless difficult to drive on, and subzero windchills humbled all. Whilst the passing of “Y2K” proved relatively calm and nothing like the apocalypse many expected, the People of Black Mesa are facing “the final” threatening forced-relocation deadline. February 1, 2000 is the date when all Dineh (Navajo) living on the so-called “Hopi Partition Land” (HPL) who didn’t sign the Accommodation Agreement are subject to unconditional removal from ancestral homelands at the hands of federal and tribal agents. Read more
