Hopi Shrines Near The East Mesa, Arizona

Hopi Shrines Near the East Mesa, Arizona (1906) (Hardcover)

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Read the entire article here: The gigantic equipment they employ in the strip mining of our lands is indiscriminant when it comes to sensitive areas of importance to Hopi people, history and memory and is definitely not in keeping with sound archeological practice. While reputable individuals known to me have reported such violations, Prof.

Surface Mining and Reclamation Act, including its implementing regulations, U. Constitution and numerous United Nations declarations on human rights and Protection of Sacred areas. As the article makes clear, however, there has been great damage to our land, to ancestors, artifacts, villages and other sacred sites buried in what our Elders call The Living Museum of the Hopi Sinom people. Moreover, it is clear that such violations will continue if Peabody is permitted to expand and continue its mining as it has requested. If springs dry up. The ancient cultures may disappear. Everything depends upon the proper balance being maintained.

The water under the ground acts like a magnet attracting rain from the clouds, and the rain in the clouds also acts as a magnet raising the water table under the ground to the roots of our crops and plants. Drawing huge amounts of water from beneath Black Mesa in connection with the strip-mining will destroy the harmony, throw everything we have strived to maintain out of kilter.

Should this happen, our lands will shake like the Hopi rattle; land will sink, land will dry up. Rains will be barred by unseen forces because we Hopis have failed to protect the land given us, as we were instructed. Plants will not grow, our corn will not yield and animals will die.

When corn will not grow, we will dies, not only Hopis, but all will disintegrate to nothing. Unlike Peabody Western Coal Company, Hopi people do not have millions of dollars to pay for studies and hire scientists to deny the obvious. Hopi people have only eyes to see, minds to remember, and brains to reason. We must rely on one another, on public outcry of the American people, our own indigenous culture and the trust responsibility of the U.

Government to protect our home land, our life-ways, and our natural and cultural resources. Hopi elders remember watering their corn fields and swimming in Moencopi Wash; today it is dry. Reason and observation, the root of all science, ours and theirs inform us that this damage is done by over impoundment dams constructed by Peabody and authorized by U.

S Army Corp of Engineers. Billions of gallons of pristine drinking water that parched lands without impacting the source of waters upon which we have survived for millennia, upon which we depend today —- water now fouled beyond reclamation. Billions of gallons of living water, enough to provide the entire population of 10, Hopi people for years, dies each year to send coal slurry to Los Angeles cheaply.

Observation and reason show us that an enclosed aquifer in a land where less than ten inches of rain is a good year, cannot sustain the extraction of one billion gallons pumped annually to send pulverized coal to the Mohave Generating Station in a Nevada desert. Yet, year after year, that was the case before BMT and a coalition of environmental groups shut it down in By the time slurry was shut down, over 45 billion gallons of sole source drinking water was gone.

An untold number of archaeological and burial sites have been destroyed: Black Mesa is therefore a cemetery and should never have been allowed to be stripped-mined. Even without coal slurry, Peabody still continues using 1, acre feet of water a year. This is equivalent to the amount of domestic and municipal water used on all Hopi land.

Peabody has filed a revised mine application with Office of Surface Mining to allow them to continue mining until If that application is approved by the U. Secretary of Interior, an additional 20 billion gallons of sole-source drinking water will be gone. Black Mesa Trust, a non-profit organization, set up by Hopi elders in to save our sacred waters by ending strip-mining permanently. We appeal to you to help save an ancient living civilization. The decision by President Obama to delay carbon standard for reservations plants Daily Sun, June will benefit owners of Navajo Generating Station to the detriment of Hopi people who want to shut down the NGS as a coal-fired station.

NGS is central to water delivery to Arizona Indian tribes who have settled their water claims with the federal government. We are appealing to you to help save our sacred waters, religious shrines and cultural resources. Please mail your federal tax deductible donation to Black Mesa Trust, P.

Box 33, Kykotsmovi, AZ , today. Assuming each barrel is 4 feet it will reach the moon over three 3 times!!! This amount of water is enough to sustain the entire Hopi population of 10, for over years at the present rate of use. Once there, visitors could walk along a 1,foot elevated riverwalk to the confluence, eat at a restaurant, or visit an amphitheater and terraced grass seating area overlooking the Colorado River. It is their Mecca, Vatican, and their Jerusalem.

It was here that the prophesized 5 th World will be formed. For more information visit: My comments, criticism and complaints expressed in this letter does not necessarily reflect the formal positon of Black Mesa Trust Board of Directors. I am currently the Director.

The day deadline to study and comment on Peabody Western Coal Co. The day comment period is therefore premature, arbitrary and capricious and has no basis in law.

Protecting the Sacred Waters of the West

Hopi Tribal Council, as of today, was not given the opportunity to understand the mine plan and very few people showed up at the U. A BMT Trustee said no one was there when he came around 5: The Open House was advertised to be open from 1: The Office of Surface Mining OSM has not provided Hopi and Navajo language interpreters making it impossible for local people, who will be impacted directly by mining activities for many years, to understand the complex technical plan.

Workshop on mine plan and EIS process should have been held throughout Hopi village with Hopi language interpreters to explain the complex technical mine plan. Without this, how can local people make informed comments?

Failure to properly educate and inform the people is a direct violation of their due process rights as well as a violation of NEPA and Presidential Executive Order. OSM must use its authority to pierce the corporate veil. PWCC is a subsidiary, just one leg of a centipede. We filed this comment with OSM in along with numerous concerns and comments. To this day OSM has refused to respond on our comments, therefore, Black Mesa Trust will be re-submitting the comments.

Our comments compiled by a term of lawyers is available from OSM Denver office. It is too voluminous and expensive for BMT to copy. All mining operations on BMM ended in As you are well aware the Hopi Tribe was deliberately left out of drafting the agreement put together by the Federal Technical Work Group.

This omission is a blatant violation of Hopi sovereignty and the Hopi Chairman has threatened to take the issue to federal court. I believe you have a copy of the letter from former Chairman Leroy Singoitewa. I personally do not feel that U. Our Tribal Council is required by the Hopi Constitution to consult with 12 Hopi independent villages before it makes a decision. The process of consultation has not started and could become a lengthy and contentious process.

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Complicating the matter is the fact that only 5 out of 12 villages are represented on the Tribal Council. All agencies of the federal government have a fiduciary responsibility of the highest order to protect our tribal resources. It lacks technical plan and details because BMT does not have funds to hire experts. A copy of the plan including Western Science v Native Science is enclosed. Fourth Phase Water is midway between ice and liquid. There is organized molecular structure as in ice but the water remains warm and semi-liquid.

Fourth Phase Water, says Pollack, behaves very differently than other water phases and far more research is needed. Most of the water in body cells, and much of the water vapor in the atmosphere, Pollack believes, consists of Fourth Phase Water. Fourth Phase Water, according Pollack, is built by light and occurs when water is in close contact with a solid surface.

Fourth Phase Water has a negative ionic charge whereas other water phases have a positive ionic charge. That suggests a potential energy source in the interface between liquid and Fourth Phase Water, says Pollack, and drinking the two phases together could be highly beneficial. Pollack believes that Fourth Phase water has the ability to pick up extremely subtle bits of external information, and to remember them by slightly altering its structure. Pollack and Kleyne agree that knowing what sort of input the water inside the body, water that comes into contact with the body, has received can be critical to health.

To support the theory that water has the ability to remember and transmit information, Pollack cites the work of Fereydoon Batmanhelidj, Masaro Emoto and Luc Montagnier. This evening, I received an e-mail of a letter sent to you from Ed Becenti, Milton Bluehouse former President of the Navajo Nation and others and also your response to their letter.

My question to you is who selected Stanley Pollack and why? At a public meeting held by the Hopi Tribal Council at the village of Hotevilla, only one of the 12 independent villages supported the Kyle Bill. Many reasons expressed by the audience were based on Hopi religious philosophies and the covenant to help Masau, Guardian of Earth Mother, to keep all living things alive by nursing them with her water. Hopi believe very adamantly and passionately that water is life, a spirit that lives within us and who travels to the cosmic sea after our journey on earth ends to join with the ancestors, the Cloud People.

There they rest and return to earth as rain, snow and mist to nurture life. This belief is based on the fact that water is a living element that is indestructible. Water, they say, has many faces in the form of liquid, solid and vapor. It also has memory. Hopi people, therefore are convinced they will lose if they start fighting for water based on a system that is played out on the field dictated by the Western concept of property. We all have a right to use it wisely and respectfully, but we can never own water as private property. The University of Arizona has the right to invite whomever they want to speak on topics, but in this particular instance, inviting Stanley Pollack to speak on why Little Colorado River Settlement failed is an insult to myself and many others who believe he is playing a corporate game.

He has no credibility with many Hopi and Dine people, especially myself who have spent the last 20 years doing what we can to save water for future generations yet to come. In my view, Mr. Pollack is using this forum to serve his own personal agenda, one being to save his credibility with former Senator Jon Kyle, who he let down, but is now blaming it on Hopi and Dine people.

The Department of Interior, is the largest single owner and buyer of Peabody coal. The other investors, including public and private utility investors want to seduce us by saying they will help our communities by transitioning away from a coal-based economy to renewable energy. Their only concern is to profit and recover their capital cost of building NGS and mining operations. We have no knowledge of the full nature and extent of damages done to our sacred water, archaeology and burial site which dots the entire Black Mesa region Hopi calls Kawestima.

How many, including burial sites, were deliberately destroyed, this we do not know. Destroying sites is akin to tearing pages from our common history book. Only a Congressional oversight on Black Mesa mining will finally reveal the devastating impact of the largest strip-mining and flagrant violation of federal laws intended to safeguard our land. Not a lecture that tells us why it is good for us, why it is in our best interest. We are all tired of being spoken to as someone who does not have a mind of their own as step children who are spoken down to. What we want is a dialogue, where all opinions will be heard and not because it is profiting some faceless corporate profiteers, whose only interest is protecting their huge investments at our expense.

There are always two sides on an issue.

Catalog Record: Hopi ceremonial frames from Cañon de Chelly, | Hathi Trust Digital Library

When is the University of Arizona going to give us the opportunity to tell our side of the story on the failed LCR settlement? Unfair as I may say, University of Arizona has its head buried in academic sand. I apologize for my blunt statement and probably unfairness, but I feel its time we, the oppressed people, speak out loud and clear with passion. Our land is our culture, our history and our future.

We respect the earth and we are not separate from her. BMT helped play a key role in ending coal slurry operations in , and the attempt to bring ground water from Coconino Aquifer under Navajo land to continue the coal slurry operation. It spews 16 million tons of green house gases and particulates throughout the Colorado Plateau, causing environmental and health damages and clouding visibility at Grand Canyon National Park and other neighboring parks.

It is the second largest owner, next to U. Department of the Interior DOI. Designed in conjunction with the original federal and states plans to populate post-war southwestern areas of the U. CAP is owned solely by the federal government. Navajo Nation is a party to the settlement. The financial and resource benefits created at the expense of Hopi and Navajo through questionable federal manipulations is today very much in question regarding the future of NGS and Peabody. Both are facing multiple complex problems, among them are:.

Hopi Shrines Near the East Mesa, Arizona (Paperback)

That was the problem. We all used to live peaceably together when I was a yo Edmund Nequatewa talks about the time when some Hopis refused to send their children to the boarding school at Keams Canyon. How some Hopis resisted sending their children to school and the trouble that resulted. About this time [] the [Bureau of Indian Affairs] agency was established at Keams Canyon, and of course the Hopis knew that this meant peace. So all the chiefs Content Citation Information No.

Ancestral Boundaries Source s: Names the shrines that mark the boundaries of Hopi lands. Ben Wittick Photographer Description: Museum of New Mexico Publication Date: Palace of the Governors Catalog Number: Author ; Harold Courlander Editor Description: Truth of a Hopi Author s: Edmund Nequatewa Author Description: Skin care Face Body. What happens when I have an item in my cart but it is less than the eligibility threshold?

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