RED ALERT!!! FB has been a vehicle to communicate to others about issues of vital importance to those recognizing our human/heart connection with all life on this planet. I am a grandmother who has learned much in my 64 years of life, raising children on various frontlines of serious Indigenous struggle. One of the deepest issues to impact my life has been the struggle of traditional Dine people resisting Peabody Coal mine expansion and forced relocation of thousands of traditional people to free ancestral lands for resource extraction. Right now, elders and their families are having BIA Hopi Tribal Rangers hold guns to their heads while sheep and goats are confiscated. This is slow motion genocide escalating. Winters loom in a high desert region that becomes impassable during the winter. Taking their food and wool source is egregious. The Great Amerikkkan Hunger is commencing. Food is being outlawed to the poor from severe cuts in food stamps to arresting people feeding the homeless. What is happening right now at Big Mountain/Black Mesa follows this forced starvation of Indigenous peoples as well as the very poor all over this country. I pray that i am able to act on this serious human rights issue very soon. I must say that it baffles me to see little coming from anywhere except my relatively small network about the livestock impoundments. I hope this changes in the coming days. I can only speculate why this is, but must again refer to the fact that several attendees of a spring action camp that occurred at Big Mountainand told me Indians from elswhere on the rez and from Canada told white people to leave the land. Many are decades long supporters. I question the purpose of proven sheepherders and helpers to the elders and their families being told to leave. When i arrived at Big Mountain 3 weeks after this camp, heard what supporters told me and then saw that hardly anyone was out there to help remaining resisters, it sickened my heart deeply. I will not go into what it was like being there as a 64 year old grandmother with another grandmother taking care of longtime resisting Dine great grandmother; often with no vehicle in an isolated and very remote region. Something is very wrong here and i ask all those who know of this issue to do what they can to assure that the confiscation of livestock ceases. As i age, my ability to travel and stay on the land for extended periods of time has lessened. The kinds of resister community among activists living off the rez is insufficient. I question the existence of any authentic and significant commitment to such Indigenous struggle to stop climate changing Peabody Coal beyond those nonIndians, who few as they are, have shown unprecedented devotion to living declolonization in their very real support of Dine elders. I will post this as a NonIndian wherever i feel those who know how serious this is may respond.....
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 23:33:53 +0000
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