Hopefully our leadership keep in mind the devastating drought conditions when they sign the Navajo Generating Station Lease with Salt River Project!!! Letters to the editor Gallup Independent July 2, 2013 I don’t know what our leaders are doing To the editor, The Navajo Nation is experienceing on of the worst droughts in memory. Livestock is dying of thirst in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico portions of the Navajo Reservation. Navajo livestock owners are hauling water, some two or three times a day, one for sheep, the other for horses and cattle. Each trip is 20 plus miles. I don’t know what our leaders are doing. I understand President Shelly and his vice president were watching a man walk a tight rope over the Little Colorado River gorge near Grand Canyon. they must be blind to this serious situation. An emergency plan needs to be developed immediately to address this urgent situation. Livestock owners must sell some of their livestock before they become casualties. I sold some stock in May. This is necessary because tha natural feed, such as grass, is all dried up and have no nourishment in them. This weekend I traveled to Santa Fe. There are smokes (wildfires) on most of the mountains. The governors of the surrounding three states must be notified immediately of our situation as well as congressional, counties and other elected fornicals. There does not appear to be any plan at the local and Window Rock levels. Our public officials must be sound asleep. To be prepared, we must develop our water resource similar to NAPI that utilizes the San Juan River. There are several large aquifers beneath our land all untapped except for the Navajo aquifer beneath Black Mesa, which was developed by Peabody Coal Co. the people on Black Mesa, Kayenta, Shonto and other communities are using that source water. Every spring, Navajo medicine men used to place offerings as local springs as well as the Colorado and San Juan rivers. They traveled by horse to the sacred mountains to place offerings, praying for rain for their people. Who does that these days? Probably a few or none. Yesterday, I placed offerings at Rock Springs on Black Mesa. Medicine men were not paid to do this, just food, provisions if they will be doing for several days or travel to distant places. If we don’t do this, the Holy People will think we are not concerned about our situation. I hope our leaders will immediately develop a comprehensive plan to address this serious situation. Daniel Peaches Kayenta, Ariz.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 22:28:01 +0000
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