Update for February 2001 & Voices from the Land # TWO
Dear Friends and Relatives,
PLEASE, feel free to Post or Disturb unedited. Alternative, community media are also welcome to republish or use it for broadcasting
purposes. Read more
Update for February 2001 & Voices from the Land # TWO
Dear Friends and Relatives,
PLEASE, feel free to Post or Disturb unedited. Alternative, community media are also welcome to republish or use it for broadcasting purposes.
Update for February 2001 & Voices from the Land # TWO
Introduction:
The Earth and Sky continue to cherish their children, the Dineh, with a semi-normal winter season. The mid-January snowfall brought nearly two feet of white covering over the sage meadows and the juniper-pinon forests. The wind created drifts up to three and four feet deep, and the sheep flocks had a hard time managing through the foot and half thick of snow left by the winds. The availability of water for the flocks and horses was plentiful but because of the frozen ponds and seeps the ranged animals had to do their best by eating gulps of the powdery snow. Grandfather Snow always brings security and peace to these pristine lands of Big Mountain. Read more
Kee Watchman Statement to the UN 2001
United Nations Human Rights Commission
Fifty-seventh Session, March 19, April 27, 2001
Oral Intervention, International Indian Treaty Council
Agenda Item 11 (e) Religious Intolerance
Thank you Mr Chairman,
My name is Kee Watchman. I am a delegate from the International Indian Treaty Council. I have been sent here to speak for the community where I have lived my entire life, Cactus Valley-Red Willow Springs. We have been subject for over thirty years to confiscation of our livestock, rules preventing us from building homes or even maintaining the homes we have, continuous police harassment, harsh restrictions on our religion and the threat of forcible evection from the lands of our clans have called home for thousands of years. I believe what I had said, applies to all Indigenous communities who are also subject to these same laws in the United States. Read more
Upate from Black Mesa Indigenous Support Winter 2001
Please take note that BMIS now has a NEW email address: blackmesais@riseup.net If emails are sent to the old address, granmonta@hotmail.com, we will NOT receive them.
Ya’at’eeh! Greetings to all you people who believe in holding respect of peoples and all life as the highest goal to be realized by humanity today. The intention of this e-mail is simply to give information about the current status of the land and the people who live there, for those of you who hold this Black Mesa issue as an unforgotten struggle.
Please be sure to look for current statements from resisters on the BMIS website. Read more
Statement by Glenna Begay 02/01/01
I’ve been living here all my life, I am over 70 years old. I was born and raised here. The “land dispute” is only about a hundred years old and we’ve been here longer. We’ve been born and raised here for a long time.
Since the time that my ancestor’s have been here, since the beginning of Time, we did not bury our dead like they do today. They stayed in the house and the family moved away and no one lived there. Or they were put under a tree and covered them with sticks. And so, with that in mind, today you’ll see around many old abandoned homes/structures. They are not just abandoned homes, they are burial sites. Read more
