prop1.org/caravan/dineh1.htm Last week the Federal Government started confiscating the livestock of these people. They are being forced to relocate due to the vast coal beds that lie beneath their lands. This is happening right now, the Federal Government is terrorizing the rightful inhabitants of that land. On the 3Ist of March, Navajo (Dineh) families faced their last opportunity to sign the Accommodation Agreement or face forced eviction and relocation from their ancestral lands. Many of the Dineh families believe the Accommodation Agreement (the latest attempt at mediation) is an unacceptable solution of the twenty-three year old Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute. This dispute has been orchestrated by the U. S. government, the Department of Justice, the BIA and the Hopi Tribal Council and does not represent a conflict between the traditional Hopi and Dineh people. In actuality, the dispute stems from the greed of energy corporations, federal interests, and the Hopi Tribal Council to exploit vast coal reserves in the Hopi Partition land. The 1962 revision of the 1882 Executive Order Reservation created the Joint Use Area, separate from the Navaho reservation and District Six (the Hopi Reservation The resulting Joint Use Area was to be shared between the Hopi and Navajo people in accordance with their traditional cooperative land use habits. However, the non-traditional tribal councils were not satisfied with the1962 revisions stipulation of joint development of natural resources within the TUA. In an attempt to gain access to the valuable Black Mesa coal Congress the Senate, and president Gerald Ford signed PL 93-531, (the Relocation Act), into law. Traditional Dineh lands within the JUA became Hopi Partition Land (HPL) and warranted the relocation of 10,000 Dineh and 100 Hopi people This land is the traditional home and sacred site of the Dineh people, being surrounded by the few sacred mountains that anchor their religion. The Dineh people have lived on these lands since before the arrival of Columbus. Some families can trace their ancestry on the land back over twenty-five generations. The Dineh resistors represent one of the last self-sufficient Native people living traditionally in the U.S.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 01:47:14 +0000
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