Hopis bulldoze Navajo Sun Dance site
Jim Maniaci
Diné Burea
The Gallup Independent
WINDOW ROCK — In a spectacular and surprise pre-dawn raid Friday, the Hopi government ripped out Camp Anna Mae, the Benally family Sun Dance site on Big Mountain.
The Hopi action prompted the strongest words yet from Navajo President Kelsey A. Begaye. Read more
Sun Dance Tree of Life & Arbor Destruction Press Release
Hate Crime on Indian Land
For information please contact cellular phones:
928-380-5490
or 928-380-6125
August 18, 2001
Big Mountain, AZ. Yesterday, 8-17-01, at approximately 5AM, Mountain
Standard Time, the Office of Hopi Lands, Hopi Range Management, Resource
Enforcement Services, Hopi Tribal Police, Navajo County Sheriff, and US
Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) impoundment
trailers entered Camp Ana Mae, a sacred Sundance site in Big Mountain,
AZ. Read more
Sun Dance Tree of Life & Arbor Destruction Report 2001
John Benally’s Sun Dance Tree of Life & Arbor Destruction Report
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I want to communicate with you on behalf of myself and the Sundancers who exercise their beliefs here in Big Mountain. I want to tell you what is happening to us in the millennium years. Read more
Navajo resisters, Hopi officials to file more court motions
By Marley Shebala
The Navajo Times
KEAMS CANYON (Aug. 16, 2001) – Four Navajos accused of trespassing on Hopi land asked the Hopi Tribal Court to dismiss the charges on Monday.
Private attorney Joe Washington, who is representing the four Navajo women free of charge, said to Hopi Tribal Judge Delfred Leslie that the trespassing complaints against his clients were insufficient.
The four women are Ruth Benally, 85, Elvira Horseherder, 62, Paulene Whitesinger, in her 80’s, and Louise Benally, age unknown. They all reside on Big Mountain, which is on Hopi Partitioned Land. Read more
Dismissal Against Navajo Women
By Marley Shebala
The Navajo Times
KEAMS CANYON, Ariz. The Hopi Tribe is “most disappointed” with Hopi Tribal Judge Gary LaRance¹s dismissal of trespass charges against five Navajo women on March 4. The Navajo Nation applauded LaRance¹s decision.
“We are most disappointed with the outcome of the case,” said Cedric Kuwaninvaya, Hopi Land Team chairman. Kuwaninvaya added, “The Hopi Tribe maintains that the defendants were unauthorized to be at Camp Anna Mae, which is a closed area of the Hopi Reservation, and they did not seek the required permission from the Tribe to hold any gatherings on Hopi land. Read more
Signatures from Germany handed to Gale Norton
This morning, 8th of August, I got the chance to say some words to Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton at a press conference near Flagstaff.
I handed out an open letter to her and copies of more than 5.500 signatures from Germany against relocation of the Dineh people.
The letter and the signatures were initiated by the FIAN groupe in Hamburg (an international Human Rights organisation) and Harald Ihmig, Hamburg.
Please read the text of the open letter:
Harald Mueller, Wustrow/Wendland (Germany) Read more
Relocation/Livestock Impoundment Information Alert
Below is a notice received by one of the Dineh. There are a number of people receiving these at this time. A message from Carol Halberstadt below the notice tells what the individual Dineh family can do about such a notice.
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(this notice was recieved by a Dineh (Navajo) woman at Big Mountain who has signed the so-called accomodations agreement): Read more
