VOICES FROM CACTUS VALLEY, RED WILLOW SPRINGS AND UPPER BIG MOUNTAIN PLATEAU

(November 2000)

[These are excerpts from recent discussions among traditional resisters which has been formulated into this ‘crude-sort-of’ article. However, it is intended to shed light into the feelings and current outlook about the situations on the land.]

For those concerned people who wish to know how we are doing or what we plan to do about the U.S. Attorney Office’s intention of evicting us, we like for you to know that our plans are still the same: we wish to remain on our ancestral lands and will have no thoughts of moving elsewhere. We wish to carrying on with our cultural life, as  usually, despite the difficulties of old age and with the limitation in physical capabilities. We will continue to walk our sheep and try our very best to stay warm this winter. We can only think positively about what we can manage around our current home sites and land. That will be our plan and strategy, but the rest will be up to the Great Spirits –they will have the ultimate answer, in the end, about the Earth’s destiny. How long can our society be under oppression? It is certainly not indefinite that, the oppressor will allow itself to torture our lives –it will come to an end, eventually. Read more

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Letter to Albright

Judith Nies letter to Madeline Albright requesting an official response to the European Parliaments’ resolution

Judith Nies authorized me to publish her letter to M. Albright requesting an official response to the European Parliaments’ resolution of February 17, 2000 concerning the Dineh. Judith Nies is well known to Dineh supporters by her book “Native American History” and her article “The Black Mesa Syndrome”. . Judith Nies was told by Senator Kennedy’s office that the secretary of state does not plan to send a response. Read more

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