Black Mesa Coaltion to me, Chili_yazzie, Jonathan, +7 2 days agoDetails CRUM is hiring 6 Navajo Medicine Men out of Dine’h Hataalii, and we have called for six more directly from Black Mesa to work as counselor’s in the process for the families in the mining area. They claim that Ron Maldanado has shunned the public process to the 16 chapters and relocatee communities as we are told that the notification process for the BMAP should not burden his office with the expense. A third party contractor has hired a Navajo out of the NHPO office to perform the job on his behalf, we were not told if he was medicine society or not. All groups are being told to apply to the cultural review as Consultants to the Programmatic Agreement or “PA” which is the very same process that sculpted the 68 Contracts with Sentry Energy. There is an attachment from the LOM on the sites in the mining area as described which the CRUM found evidence of 30% more historic population activity and sites than originally defined by BMAP which are the sites stated in the attached. This is for your members process, we hope that you will connect with the CRUM to ensure that your chapter not only provides this meeting announcement to the stakeholders, but allows activist review of the documentation so that the conversation will not be muted by infactual circumstances. Mitigation = Museum, and they do not want to discuss the BMAP as it would require a discussion on whether or not to place the museum at Museum of Northern Arizona. At the first cultural review they indicated there were no building plans submitted. We contacted them after this meeting and they now say they are not equipped to answer that question. There’s a 5 year plan for BMAP and if this issue is not discussed, the museum will be built at MuNA and without any discussion or consideration of self-curation and job opportunities for a sacred sites enforcement and cultural center for repatriation at the mine or anywhere on Black Mesa. As it stands today any chapter could lead the call for such a museum to be placed at their chapter, Tuba, Pinon, Hard Rock, Forest Lake, anywhere, Kayenta. Shonto. They already have a facility the Navajo National Monument, they could well have another. Window Rock. If any of the communities take a stand not to speak on the issue it will be an automatic vote for MuNA. As you all know we are still requesting that this option come with a library for the mining research that the only known complete inventory is at SIUC. Navajo Times is coming out with a more accurate piece, these guys rushed to press, after waiting the past six months to jump the gun, but did so without any information and they pretty much have mud. They ignored all of the mining area residents we scheduled with them for this article. This article was supposed to feature mining area residents but they chose others because of their “status”. Which you guys know all too well how that goes. But its 200 at UNLV. There’s a 150 more we are told at SIUC and they are already dividing them up by Hopi. We feel that they are pitching this so that the Hopi will bless their NAU MuNA aspirations, as they had some language in this article’s draft, for “federal assurances for their return”. The 1968 Contracts with Sentry which became PWCC, clearly indicate a multi-Tribe museum and the Hopi agreed to Flagstaff. The Hopi could change their mind and join everyone at another site. Paid for by PWCC according to the contracts. PWCC and the entire team of greedy archaeologists still say that they will do whatever the Tribes want. Its up to the people to make it clear what they want. Its also important to note that they published a complete residents list with mailing addresses and site locations in the LOM. Which not everyone has. But its there. They have agreed to a meeting at the mine, as well as the chapters. Also Black Mesa Review Board and many others. This 16 chapter process is a result of the Hard Rock Chapter Resolution circulated by Don Yellowman and a direct result of everyone’s participation and that this breakthrough on chapter process after the closure of the comment period of the EIS was the best that I could do with what I had. After this it should take a “life of its own” as they say. Thanks for all of your help and support I hope I met or exceeded your expectations LOL. Jen Making Change Street Newspaper The first, is that Alan Downer is shown here without a very specific threat that he made to these Navajo communities, that if the Navajo dont like the way they are handling the sacred sites they would grind them up and dump them into reclamation pits. This was at a chapter meeting that raised an outrage that was ignored by mainstream media even today in this article. It also fails to add that we have a recording of a PWCC cultural review agent making the same statement threat. We have filed complaints based on Gumermans book who admits that the research and its results were sculpted on behalf of the client and not the culture. 2nd, that the Cultural Review has confirmed the sites dating back to 5,000 BC not 3,000 as described. Also, the last line is completely inaccurate, there is a process for discussion of the BMAP, in the NGS-KMC EIS, for which only 100 letters have been written opposing the mines abusive operations. And on the suffering of the environment, the species and the top layer removal of historic trees and plants. In fact the EIS does not even mention two new species of Navajo Ants that have been found in this region. The first Cultural Review Meeting was closed to the public and attempts were made to shut down the meetings scheduled with the people and the Historic Preservation Office. One meeting was held at a chapter without notifying any one stakeholder in the area, without giving them information, or allowing grassroots cross exam. Even in the activists camps attempts were made to shut down the open public discussion of these issues with Navajo elders. With dark forces working to cut special deals with PWCC in order to make first round negotiations for their return to Flagstaff and NAU rather than Black Mesa itself. Activists ponder how reburial will be achieved in Flagstaff since the Hopi Cultural Center has not improved the Hopi Economy or the lives of individual Hopi to maintain their connection to their lands, by facilitating jobs within their neighborhoods. For a long time the Hopi have been given special designation and preference for the return of these items, excluding the Pueblo, Navajo and other clans from that process. While their Tribal Government sends rangers to impound HPL Residents sheep and tear down their sundance camps. The Cultural Review after its 2nd meeting, saw the close of the EIS public comments process while individuals were threatening people in entire regions from commenting on the EIS as mining employees. To prevent sentient public from extending their voices in support of the Navajo Peoples Right to their Religion which is their land, and their right to self-curate and return their own cultural property back to their family burial sites. The Cultural Review after visiting embedded BMAP sacred sites in the mining area, found 30% more evidence of still intact historic human activity. Dating 5000 BC to 20th Century. The Cultural Review promised they would not auto-designate one Tribe over the others in cultural affiliation. The Cultural Review Committee, trashed their first Programmatic Agreement Contract and have split it into two contracts. One specifically for Black Mesa and one for the NGS, Nevada and Utah Transmission Lines and Railway. They also re-opened the public comment period, and have announced a 16 chapter process, for direct engagement in impacted Navajo communities to speak specifically on the sacred sites issues. These actions fall on the heels of a recent appointment of Rita Cheng, as Regent of Northern Arizona University. Who raised many eyebrows amongst the Dineh People when they heard she was from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where the collection of 1.2 Million has been kept. It is important to note, that SIUC and UNLVs role in handling these properties has come under fire, as they are not directed in the original 1968 contracts that were made with a mining company bought by PWCC who took over their holdings. The collection at Prescott College suffered a coronary bankruptcy, a hallmark of mining counter-intelligence, in dissolving and disrupting small organizations to facilitate the taking of resources and to discredit and disable community led initiatives. Many groups claim the same was accomplished in the International Humanities Center non profit who disappeared with funds of over 1 million of key activist organizations involved as community voices in the Office of Surface Mining Suits. Many of those suits were somehow shuffled to Sierra Club who has ignored the community groups and residents who were displaced from that process. It was those suits that included a private negotiation period with PWCC, that we now have documentation that shows efforts were made to sell the collection to PWCC and NAU. NAU and Museum of Northern Arizona have come forward in the community to assure that they do not wish to cause any alarm for Navajo people and will participate in doing whatever is the decision of the Sovereign Native Tribes. This 16 chapter process is a deal breaker and this article was sculpted in this period after coming to our groups and then breaking their accord with our original mission, which was to provide accurate information on this process. We have written the Guardian for the corrections. We have a more concise article with Navajo Times coming out today which we will post. We worked long and hard for this article, and we post it here, so that we can demonstrate the twists in propaganda on this issue. https://facebook/pages/Black-Mesa-Archaeological-Project/1410162705862795?pnref=story Jennafer Yellowhorse Black Mesa Coaltion [email protected] POB 4828 Kayenta, AZ 86033 (928) 246-1635 Dine’h and Hopi To Peabody: Stop the Commodification of the Sacred bit.ly/1exa60D This communication is intended solely for the use of the person(s) whom it is addressed. This communication may contain confidential information or information otherwise subject to laws and regulations regarding its use and any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication, or any portion thereof, may therefore be legally prohibited. 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