-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Since the 1970s more than 14,000 Dineh people residing on the Hopi | | Partition Land, designated exclusively for Hopi use, have been | | relocated to neighboring cities. Within six years of the first | | relocation program 25% of the Dineh relocated had died from | | relocation related illnesses. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Elderly Navajo Indians Threatened With Starvation "Sovereign Dineh Nation Faces Livestock Impoundments on Black Mesa" by Carol Halberstadt Saturday, February 20, 1999 Copyright � 1999 Halberstadt All Rights Reserved Big Mountain, Arizona - The U.S. Bureau of Indian affairs (BIA) has launched a massive campaig of livestock confiscation targeting the elderly Dineh (Navajo) families who reside on the Hopi Partitioned Lands created by the 1974 Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act. This area, larger than the state of Rhode Island, is the poorest region of the U.S., with an annual per capita income lower than in many Third World countries. The elderly people rely upon their livestock for survival, living a traditional subsistence lifestyle on lands their families have inhabited for hundreds of years. The BIA ended a self-imposed two-year moratorium on livestock confiscation in January by mailing notices to all owners of livestock without valid permits, with impoundments scheduled to begin on Feb. 15, 1999. People who have not signed leases with the Hopi Tribe are not eligible for permits. Many who signed leases received allocations far below the number needed for survival. The BIA claims their sole purpose is to protect deteriorating range conditions. The people claim that the problem is BIA range management policies outlawing their traditional use of separate summer/winter camps, which sustained herds 4-10 times larger prior to BIA intervention. This current BIA livestock impoundment continues 25 years of abuse and harassment aimed at expelling the people of Black Mesa from their homeland. While the BIA claims that range management is an independent issue, the targets of the impoundment campaign are the same people threatened by other policies resulting from the 1974 Relocation Act. Over 12,000 people have already been forcibly expelled from their homes, and many government policies have been designed to drive out those remaining on their land. For 30 years, the people have been subject to a freeze on housing improvements that has made it illegal even to fix a broken window. The government routinely confiscates their firewood in winter, and the people have been stripped of their civil rights. It is imperative that these people be protected by the same rights afforded to all Americans and that the world know what is happening here. The people threatened by the planned BIA livestock confiscation are all elderly people who have no means of survival other than their traditional herding. Zonnie Whitehair, the owner of the largest herd in the area, is faced with the confiscation of her entire flock of 200 sheep. Her husband, Oscar, died in December, and if her herd is taken, she has said that she will soon follow. Roberta Blackgoat, like many other grandmothers, faces the possible confiscation of her entire herd. In addition to losing their primary food source, the grandmothers would lose their source of wool to weave rugs that provide their only funds for survival. As she has stated in reference to the BIA policy, "This is not range management--it is murder." ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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