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>From BIGMTLIST
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:05:50 -0400
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From: Carol Halberstadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Revised message
To the Big Mountain supporters:
I just returned Sunday, June 20, from three weeks on Black Mesa and visiting
Dine' friends on the eastern part of Dinetah, in New Mexico. I was honored
to meet and visit with many of the people, to touch the land and share
a few moments of their lives. My heart is full.
I also met with the Hopi BIA at Keams Canyon, with Navajo Nation executives
at Window Rock, and spoke to people at Tsegi Canyon, at Betatakin, at
Spiderwoman
Rock at Tse'yi' (Canyon de Chelly), at Teesto, Pinon, Chinle, Hubbell,
and Homolovi, Flagstaff and Albuquerque. Everywhere I went Black Mesa was
known to the Dine', wherever they lived, and most people spoke of it in
ways that evoked the sadness of their telling about the Long Walk.
As I drove north from Phoenix on June 1 and 2, it rained heavily in Cottonwood
and Flagstaff; when I left via the Thoreau/Crownpoint area the last two
days (June 17-19) it rained heavily there again. I hope it rained on Black
Mesa. I will be writing up my notes on my journey and will be sharing some
of them with the Big Mountain list. This poem was written as first a rainbow
appeared and then the rain began as I was traveling away from Black Mesa,
near Ganado.
As I traveled, I was struck by how Black Mesa is encircled by national
parks, most of which preserve ancient ruins in pristine splendor--the Grand
Canyon to the west, Monument Valley, Betatakin, and Tsegi to the north,
Tse'yi' (Canyon de Chelly) to the east, and Homolovi, the Painted Desert
and Petrified Forest to the south. And the beauty of Black Mesa is in the
center--a continuation of the beauty of these protected lands where millions
of tourists and travelers come to wonder each year. Virtually none of them
know of Black Mesa in their midst--where several thousand living people
preserve the land with the presence of their lives. And where thousands
more would return to renew their homeland for all the generations of people,
and insects, and livestock, and trees, and birds, and deer, and prairie
dogs to come...
Leaving Black Mesa
After the rainbow, the rain-
clouds bound up like wool,
their streaming tresses
combed by wind,
loosened in thunder.
Does it rain in the hardened heart?
Does it rain on Black Mesa,
alone with her beetles, her people,
her birds, her pi�on and juniper?
Does the rain know her still?
Where the water was, there is sand.
The glacial sea cradled in rock
is draining. It is being drunk by fools
who carry away her heart.
Will the grandmother's tears
and the children's
save her stones?
She is bounded by ruins
where people come to wonder-
but who knows Black Mesa?
Who will tell her song?
(�Carol Snyder Halberstadt 6/16/99) -- Carol S. Halberstadt,
Migrations
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Native American art and crafts
http://www.migrations.com
"A generation goes, and a generation comes, and the earth abides forever."
(Ecclesiastes 1:4)
"...then weave for us a garment of brightness,
that we may walk fittingly where birds sing..."
(from a Tewa prayer)
"Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look on the earth beneath,
for the heavens will vanish like smoke and the earth wear away
like a garment..."
(Isaiah 51:6)
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