Dine youth walking against fracking: Our intention is to walk throughout the Navajo Nation to document beauty of our land and people. Along our route, we will visit communities to spread awareness of environmental and social issues modern Dine are facing. We begin on January 6th. In seasons to come, we will extend our walk to other mountains and regions of Dine Bikeyah. We will be walking over 1000 miles in 2015. Quote from the film: [All we really want is to] to have a better future. To preserve language, to preserve our natural state of being. Were not used to living out in the cities. We dont want to. We want to keep our livestock. We want to show the world that we still exist. On January 6, 2015, we will start from the fireplace and doorway of Diné Bikéyah, at Dził Nahodiłii (Huerfano, NM), the homeplace place of our people, which is threatened by fracking. There are over 400 proposed drill sites and within the past couple months over 100 have been started in the region. From there we will walk to communities through the Eastern Agency, and then to Tsoodzil (Mt. Taylor, Grants, NM) which also threaten by uranium mining. This first leg of our journey will be 200 miles, and will take us approximately 3 weeks.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 08:57:37 +0000
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